The sound track is awful — a solo piano piece that grates on my nerves — and the baker is a professional from an odd kind of restaurant where he wears latex gloves while baking. This said, there is a recipe (modern, it includes sugar and is made with the whitest of white flour), and…
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Extensible Dough — Shraq
What I find remarkable about this Bedouin bread is the rolling out — or pushing out — by hand and then the stretching by tossing. The tossing is the basic pizza dough technique but this bread is incredibly thin. Note that the griddle is not evenly hot, it is cooler at the top, and so…
Introduction to Baking Bread in Hot Sand
httpv://youtu.be/Yq7blWjmnFg This video offers an introduction to baking bread in sand heated by a fire of brushwood. This particular version is made by a Berber but it is a technique that is widespread in desert regions. The YouTube videos documenting the method tend not to offer much information on the dough and how one version…
2 Vidoes Bread Baked in Hot Sand
These two videos offer a good look at what the bread looks like while other videos offer more detail on how to handle the fire and heat the sand. httpv://youtu.be/QogjISQxcr0 This video starts towards the end of the process of creating an oven of hot embers and sand. We first see the bread after it…
Scraping Sand from Sand-baked Bread
This video is in two parts. The first video offers a particularly clear look at exactly how the fire is scraped away from the flatbread and clarifies that the bread is baked in hot sand, not on embers or even in this case a mixture of embers and sand. The tourist who is filming asks…
Bread Baked in Sand
This video offers a very clear look at the effort that at least this baker goes to in order to insure that there is no sand or ash sticking to the final bread. The baker also reminds us that this bread is smaller than the Bedouin make when out in the desert on their own….
Baking in a Tandoor Oven
The tandoor oven is the most common oven from the Caucuses to Northern India. The are a couple ways to think of the tandoor oven. The tandoor can be thought of as both a chimney and an oven wall built around a fire. Bread is slapped onto the heated wall where it sticks and bakes…
Baked on a Griddle
This is a disquieting video of flatbreads being baked in Afghanistan. In it, we see a young baker forming and the rolling out a bread to beaked on a griddle. The focus is on the rolling out which is done slowly. The film maker seems to get bored with the rolling-out process and so he…
Baking Bread in Sand #2
https://youtu.be/Vqel_CXipAY Detail of interest: the flour dusted depressing. This video is made up of a series of stills. We do lose some technical information, particularly regarding how the ash and embers are swept out from the sand. But there is one detail in this video I haven’t seen in others. The bottom of the heated…
Baked under flaming branches
This is a truly extraordinary video. The text provided by the film maker identifies the bread as follows: This is on the edge of the Sahara Desert near Zagora, Morocco. The locals make bread by placing the dough on heated rocks and cooking the top with palm fronds. The dough is then buried in the…
William Rubel 