to toast bread
Release time : 02/26/2026 09:30:04
Toasted bread tastes more fragrant than regular bread, and the aroma is even stronger than that of other types of bread. This is why it has won so many people's affection. But what exactly is the material used for toasted bread? And what are its varieties? How can we easily bake them at home? These questions are all concerns for bread enthusiasts.
What is bread-baking? In fact, bread-baking is a process that uses grains such as black wheat and wheat as the basic ingredients. Firstly, they are ground into flour, then mixed with water, salt, yeast, etc., to make dough and baked in an oven or grilled.
Generally speaking, when we mention bread, we usually think of European breads, Japanese sandwich breads, or sweet breads.
In fact, there are many kinds of special bread in the world. The raw materials used for making bread are not only black wheat flour and wheat flour but also buckwheat flour, brown rice flour, corn flour, etc.
Some breads are made with yeast and rise more in the oven.
And there is a great many breads that are baked without fermentation.
Bread is softer and tastier when baked at a high temperature, but it becomes tough and less flavorful when cooked at lower temperatures.
At the same time, baking bread is a high-calorie and carbohydrate food, which can easily lead to obesity if consumed in excess.
So, while baking bread can be tempting, it's important to keep in mind that moderation is key. Don't overdo it!
There are various types of bread baked in daily life, attracting people with different tastes through their diverse options. So, what kinds of bread do we have? Let's take a look at which ones we love the most.
1. In terms of texture, it can be classified into four categories: soft bread, crispy bread, fluffy bread, and hard bread.
From the perspective of calorie content, a crispy crusty bread is the lowest in calories because it contains little sugar, salt, and fat. It is hard on the outside when baked and can be very tasty to eat warm.
Both French baguettes and Russian "bigles" are of this category; their nutritional value is roughly the same as that of steamed buns.
Hard bread and soft bread add egg, sugar, milk, oil and other materials, but the water added is different.
Children's favorite "toast bread", "cream bread" and most of the colored cake bread are all soft bread.
Soft sweet bread contains about 15% sugar and 10% fat, while the toast bread has more.
However, since the addition of eggs and milk powder, the nutritional value has been increased, making it suitable for baby consumption.
In bread, the most caloric is the "Danish bread", also known as "bread of the Danes".
Its characteristic is to add 20% to 30% of butter or "buttering", and it can form special layered structure, often made into cowhorn bread, plum cake, chocolate crispy bread and so on.
It is delicious and crispy, but it has too much saturated fats and calories, and it can contain "trans fatty acids" which are very bad for your health.
We should try to buy as little bread as possible and ideally not more than one a week.
2. Based on the ingredients: there are three types of breads, namely white bread, whole wheat bread and mixed grain bread.
Generally, bread is made with white flour, which has a soft and tender texture, is easily digested and absorbed, and contains very little dietary fiber.
Many people with more knowledge of nutrition know that whole-wheat bread is more beneficial to health because it is rich in fiber, which helps clean up intestinal waste and delays the absorption of nutrients, thereby preventing obesity.
Children over two years old can start eating whole wheat bread to develop the good habit of eating "rough" food.
Consumers should be aware that a brown color does not necessarily indicate that the product is whole wheat bread.
Some companies use white flour to make bread and add a small amount of caramel coloring to dye it brown, making it appear darker in appearance. However, it is essentially still a white bread.
You have to see a lot of the bran pieces before you can be sure it's whole wheat bread, but it does taste a bit coarse.
Apart from whole grain bread, cereal-based breads such as oatmeal bread, barley bread, and buckwheat bread can also provide a lot of dietary fiber.
In bread, about 60% of the carbohydrates are starch and over 10% are plant proteins. Besides these, there are minerals and B vitamins in the bread.
When having breakfast, it is a good idea to choose grain bread and whole-wheat bread, along with a cup of milk. If possible, adding some vegetables or fruits can further enhance the nutritional intake.
How to make delicious toasted bread, these delicious toasted bread are not just simply baked the dough. Here is a great deal of knowledge.
Bread is made by the fresh yeast dough, roll and form, then bake.
The key to baking bread lies in mastering three essential steps: selecting flour, fermentation, and baking.
1. The main ingredient used in making bread is flour, and selecting the right flour is key to achieving a good bread product.
Generally, flours with a gluten content of more than 25% are selected.
The bread made with this flour is good in texture, elastic, and light.
2. The fermentation method of making bread uses yeast fermentation.
In the process of making bread dough, besides using liquid fresh yeast, it also needs to use oil, sugar, egg and other assistant ingredients.
The amount of material is different for different varieties.
The fermentation method of a typical bread is introduced below.
Ingredients: 1) 5kg standard flour (preferably rich flour), 1.5kg sugar, approximately 750g of oil (either lard or vegetable oil), 750g of eggs, 120-150g fresh yeast, and 2.5kg of water (approximately 2kg in hot weather, 3kg in cold weather). Additionally, a small amount of salt, essence, and maltose syrup may be required.
2) The method of adjustment is divided into two stages.
The first phase involves the development of a small-scale fermentation process.
Add about 500g of water to one third of the flour, mix in fresh yeast and knead well. Let it rest for 2 hours (sometimes for 3-4 hours), then stir it up again as small dough.
3. Mastering the baking temperature is also key to producing good bread.
There are three kinds of bread baking ovens, which are coal-fired ovens, electric ovens and far-infrared ovens. In fact, microwave oven is a kind of bread baking oven as well.
Bake the bread dough in an oven by heating it to high temperature.
Bread baking not only changes from raw to cooked, but also forms the surface golden, tissue puffy, sweet and delicious, elastic and other characteristics.
Below, take the coal-fired oven as an example to explain how to adjust the oven temperature when baking bread.
Bake bread, the general requirements of using high heat, but different stages to use different heat.
In the first stage of baking, the heat should be kept low (about 120℃), and the bottom fire should be high (not more than 250-260℃), so as to avoid the surface of bread being set too quickly and allow the bread to expand moderately.
The second stage of firing both top and bottom fires should be high, the top fire can reach 270℃, the bottom fire not more than 270~300℃ to make bread shape.
The third stage gradually reduces the surface temperature to 180-200℃ and bottom temperature to 140-160℃, named bread surface coking, forms distinct color, and improves flavor.
The total baking time is determined by the size of the bread, for example, a 100g small bread will take 8-10 minutes (the surface fire refers to the fire on the top of the coal pile, and the bottom fire refers to the fire at the bottom of the coal pile).
This can be accomplished by using different baking temperatures in three stages.
The temperature of other ovens can also be controlled appropriately according to this change.
The temperature of baking bread will affect the final shape of the bread. Mastering the temperature and heat, the bread will be more delicious and can stimulate the fragrance of the flour.
So what temperature is the right one? Bake at 180-220°C and time between 12min-35min.
If the temperature of the oven is too high, the crust will be formed prematurely, weakening the baking expansion and limiting the expansion of dough. The result is a smaller volume of baked product with large holes inside.
Especially the high-sugar bread, inside and four sides are not fully baked yet but the outer layer is too dark.
When the skin color is used as a flaming standard, then the bread inside will be sticky, immature and tasteless, and there will be a phenomenon of expansion after coming out.
When the crust is fully ripe, the inside will be dark brown.
Simultaneously, if the furnace temperature is too high, it can easily cause bubbles on the surface.
If the oven temperature is too low, the baking expansion effect is too great, and the volume exceeds normal, which also leads to roughness inside the bread.
If the temperature is low, then it will be necessary to extend the baking time, so that the outer skin dries too long, and the bread's outer skin becomes too thick. Moreover, due to insufficient temperature, the outer skin cannot char and the color is lighter than normal.
Simultaneously, excessive water evaporation and the volatilization of volatile substances lead to a reduction in bread quality and an increase in baking loss.
The baking time depends on the oven temperature.
If the temperature is high, baking time is short; if it is low, then baking time is long.
How to determine the temperature of the oven? First, you must understand how quickly bread turns.
This mainly depends on the content of sugar and milk powder in the formula, the higher the content, the faster the coloring of bread, the lower the content, the slower the coloring.
Therefore, baking a sweet bread requires lower oven temperature and longer time while baking a salty bread with higher oven temperature and shorter time.
The temperature in the baking oven should not be too high.
For sandwiches that use molded boxes and lids, the bread requires high temperature and long baking time.
How to bake bread in an oven, generally speaking, the most important tool for baking bread is an oven. This method of baking bread is convenient and is what most people choose. So, let me introduce you to the general method of baking bread in an oven.
1. Method of Baking Bread in an Oven Ingredients: - 190g high-gluten flour - 20g butter - 120g milk - 20g egg liquid - 2g salt - 2g yeast - 30g honey Steps/Method: 1) Knead all the ingredients (except for the butter) into a dough, using the bread machine to knead it for 15 minutes. Then add the butter and knead it until you have a glutened dough. Allow the dough to rise for the basic fermentation.
2) Fermentation to 2.
When it is five times larger, divided into six pieces, and kneaded for 15 minutes.
3) Roll the dough into a long strip and weave it into an 8-character pattern, arranging it on the baking pan before allowing it to rise until doubled in size.
4. Brush a layer of egg on the surface of the bread, sprinkle with black sesame seeds.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius, and bake for 15 minutes in the middle rack.
2. How to Bake Bread in an Oven: Ingredients for the recipe include one bottle of whole milk, one egg, a pinch of salt, an appropriate amount of sugar, two tablespoons of butter, one tablespoon of active dry yeast, and about 800g of high-gluten flour. Mix all these ingredients together in a bowl, kneading until a smooth dough is achieved. Once the dough is well combined, cover it and place it in a warm area to rise for about two hours.
2) Divide the dough into the size you want, and gently knead them one by one. If you need to make a sandwich, add it in the dough.
Once the shape is perfect, let it rest for half an hour to rise. This is key! 3) Preheat your oven to 200 degrees Celsius for 5 minutes. Then lightly grease a baking tray and place the bread loaf on top, ensuring there's space between each one so that they won't stick together when they're ready.
Bake the bread pudding in a preheated oven at 160~170 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes.
Is it necessary to use an oven for baking bread? Actually, that's not the case at all. In fact, if we are adept at utilizing some household appliances, we can indeed bake delicious bread in our microwave. Let me introduce you to the method of using a microwave to bake bread so that even moms without an oven can still make mouthwatering baked bread with the help of their microwave.
1. Material Preparation: 300g high-gluten flour, 6g dry yeast, 15g sugar, 5g salt, 45g egg, 150ml milk, 9g butter, a little egg liquid.
2. Place the milk and butter in a container, microwave for 30 seconds, remove and stir with a whisk until well mixed.
3. Add the dry yeast, mix with a beater and then add sugar, salt and egg, stir well.
4. First, add a third of the flour and mix it with the whisk until well combined. Then, gradually add the remaining flour, stirring with chopsticks to form the dough without kneading. It is said that this method can help accelerate fermentation.
5. Place the dough container on top of a piece of plastic wrap, then place another layer of damp but slightly crumpled kitchen paper on top. Microwave for 30 seconds, remove and place on a floured board. Knead the dough until it is smooth and cover with a piece of baking paper, then another layer of damp kitchen paper. Let it rest for 20 minutes, which will make the dough twice as large as before. If the dough has doubled in size, you can assume that the fermentation process is complete.
6. Place the dough on a work surface, gently press out any air bubbles, then divide into pieces to create your desired bread shape. (Then lightly cover with a piece of baking paper and another layer of kitchen towel)
Place the bread in a microwave and heat on defrost for 30 seconds. Remove and place on a baking sheet lined with paper towels, let rest for 10 to 20 minutes as a second rise. Let it doubled in size before serving.
7. After the bread is finished fermenting, brush it with egg yolk and sprinkle with black sesame seeds for decoration. Place it in a preheated microwave at 180 degrees for 15-18 minutes.
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