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[matthewreeves]

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[Immortalbus]

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[camchem]

I’m a non-religious Jew who lived with religious Jews for about 8 months. One of the women I lived with taught me how to make challah.
About once a month, she would make 5 pounds of challah dough, all by hand. Yes, kneaded 5 pounds by hand.
And then she would bake all of it and freeze most of it to use for future Shabbos meals. That woman had four freezers in her house.
Also, she was well-known in the neighborhood for the most delicious challah. It was an eggy, fluffy, light, melt-in-your-mouth, sweet bread.
I use her recipe all of the time. I don’t make 5 pounds, but I still knead it all by hand. I firmly believe that challah reflects the love the person put into it.
It’s such a special and important mitzvah for women to make challah. I love it!

[slevine]

As someone who makes homemade challah every week, I do appreciate new versions of the challah recipe. I will say there are other recipes that are less involved and don't require as much kneading. I've never done the window pane test for my dough and it always comes out fluffy. And while a 6-braid strand is a showstopper, a 3-braid works just well (and less time consuming). Also, I've never measured the internal temp of my challah, just need to check that the bottom gets baked before removing it. That being said, Your challah looks great and I'm eager to try this rendition of french toast!

[danielbickford]

So fun little story, back while I was in college (and boy doesn't that make me feel old) on Sundays I would have a D&D game with a few friends and I would bring them the leftover challah from Shabbos. It was always well enjoyed and it got it off my hands, as my family just simply didn't eat that much of it at once. So I had brought a bag of challah rolls and as the game progressed one of my friends kept on reaching for another roll and then another roll and as he took a bite out of the last roll another one of my friends asked for the challah and handed her the empty bag. With a disappointed look she gave him some cash and told him to go buy another.

[InkyM]

Challah does make superb french toast, but if we're talking absolute best use, I'm going to go with the Shabbat meal for which it has been baked 😊

[danpeikes]

Nice to see a traditional challah recipe without any dairy, the way it is made in many Jewish households. Also Andrew we need to teach you the correct way to pronounce "Ch" :)

[Mendygarb]

If we are doing challah can we get Regulach next? It's like a cinnamon brioche croissant and people need to know about it.

[benthedudeman]

I live in Israel and my uncle's family is Jewish. they visit us every Friday evening for the dinner before shabbat, which is very important to Jewish culture. although I myself am not Jewish, I enjoy the fun and festive time that comes every week. every single time, no matter what, I make the Challa for dinner. Over the ten years I made the Challa every week, I worked hard to perfect it, because I want them all to get the best food they can in that festive evening. and as a "master" of the Challa, I must say you would have made uncle Shlomi very proud. amazing job. try it with cheeses such as labane, you won't be disappointed! have an amazing day everyone :)

[aims]

I would really like to see an “affordable basics” banish always goes for high quality but cheaper meals would be great

[onremarafeldman]

As a Jew, my family eats a lot of challah and this rendition of challah look amazing. Personally, I prefer a lighter challah with some more volume. Great job Babish and HAPPY CHANUKAH

[malachipash]

1:12 nice detail. you don't use butter because religious Jews don't eat diary with meat and Challah in eaten usually in a meaty meal.

[MeganOliveri]

I’ve never used that many strands to braid challah - it looks so pretty!!

[snakesnoteyes]

Would have been nice for you to include the Jewish origins of this, particularly as you dropped this vid during Chanukah my dude.

[LikeTheProphet]

Challah > brioche for French toast every time. Brioche is too soft and collapses in the custard. Challah is all the best parts of brioche, but just dense enough to feel properly hearty when you eat it with butter, and soaks up custard effectively when making French toast.

[harambe]

You know, if you prepared a dough you'd use for a brioche and made this it would be called Vánočka (christmas bread), it's a common breakfast item in Czechia, add some butter, jam or honey or a hot cocoa to dunk it in and it's a proper sweet treat, turning it into a French toast would be a bit of an overkill though.

[asafalgawi]

For a far better use of challah, place a chicken schnitzel with fried eggplants and hot tomato sauce (matbucha) in between two chunky pieces of challah and your in for the best sandwich in the world.

[Idonotlikepeanutbutter]

Please make Gingy from the Shrek movies when it's Christmas

[superfrontman]

Love challah, and this is a beautiful one! But a more Chanukah appropriate recipe would be jelly doughnuts ;)