07:00 - definetly 5 minutes walking - in europe generally when someone talks about distance in time units (in cities) - the default is walking. If not he would probably automatically add 5 minutes by tram , or by car , or by bike, etc. Most of european cities are designed so that most people can have a small shop, or a bakery or pharmacy or green market or a caffe - etc, etc in 5 - 15 minutes walk from you
It's fascinating that in the US the first idea is 5mins by car cos there is basically no walking infrasctructure. In Europe there is a small shop a walkable distance on every corner.
I'm from Poland and I work in a bakery. Not as a baker, but a person responsible, among other things, for cutting bread on a special machine. I remember, that one day a woman called us with a complaint. She was furious and demanding refund. She said we were selling old bread because it was stale after just three days. She couldn't believe that here, it's normal. She claimed that she had lived in the USA for over 30 years and bread was fresh there for two or even three weeks. In the end, she said she'll never buy bread from our bakery because we are frauds.
I have visited and travelled all over Europe for Work and throughout Eastern Europe I (I'm Irish) thought the bread, even in fairly expensive hotels, was stale - so I asked a Polish friend of mine - and he told me that his Mother wouldn't allow bread to be served in her house if it wasn't at least five days old - according to her, eating bread that wasn't at least five days old was dangerous for your health...
@@michaelodonnell824 This is weird. I've travelled all over Europe too and never had that experience. Maybe you went during covid, when Hotels were all close to bankruptcy?
@@a5cent Hi. No. This travel was before Covid. This Stale bread phenomenon was an Eastern European thing that I came across in Poland, Hungary and Russia. Elsewhere in Europe, the bread was always fresh and often warm, no matter what time of the day...
@@michaelodonnell824 Weird. I've never been to Russia, but I have traveled throughout Poland. I've also been to Hungary but only Budapest. Anyway, I was never served stale bread in either of those countries. Strange.
@@olivierdk2 I can't tell.. I'm not French. Cars are all around though.. even in The Netherlands which has some of the most bike lanes as we learned in a video before cars are being used like crazy. I personally don't even have one and I'm older than most people here. The cities I lived in had either good public transportation (e g. Berlin) or were small enough so you could get everywhere by bike. We have that joke though that Americans use the car for any distance that is longer than the car😜 Her asking if it was by car or by foot I find hilarious.
Having been to multiple states in U.S I agree with Olivier, it is saddening that they have such a terrible infrastructure for walking in a lot of places, the only place I could actually walk was New York City and partly Minneapolis, seems to only be available in urban centres, you will have a horrible time outside of the cities, the lack of sidewalks was wild to me, it's either almost meter long grass or on the road itself, neither felt safe. You'll find sidewalks in suburban areas, sometimes overgrown and often they don't have sidewalks connecting to the city, only within the suburban. So, I understand why they use a car for everything, I can't blame them.
I just love your reactions Heidi! In Germany, the bread tradition is as important as in France. (I love French croissants) Fun Facts: The German Bread Register of the German Bread Institute currently lists over 3,000 different bread specialties that are baked and sold every day in Germany. There are approx. 9,965 companies with around 35,000 branches (approx. 45,000 sales outlets) There is even a bread museum in Germany. The German bread culture was even included in the nationwide list of intangible cultural heritage by the national UNESCO commission in 2014. If you ask Germans abroad what they miss the most, you usually get the answer: German bread.
I would argue, that the German bread culture is even more extreme than the French one. After all, the German bread culture is part of UNESCO world heritage, while the French one isn't...
I lived in Germany for 6 years and you couldn't be more right. Where I lived there were 4 bakeries on the main street. One literally in front of the other and they always had customers inside.
I once tried German bread while on holiday in the region of Friuli in Italy, I get that maybe it wasn't as good as in Germany but still it was so good.
7:01 It's very likely 5 minute walking, and they most likely will come across more than one within that distance. It's the same for most big cities in France. In a 5 minute walking distance I've 8 bakeries in my neighborhood in Toulouse.
In Chile, we also have this "bread culture", and I couldn't imagine living without fresh bread, even in supermarkets there's a section where they make bread, and you can literally see them making it. Also, it's such an American thing to ask if it's 5 minutes by car hahahahahah it's 5 minutes walking, usually that's the default.
I lived in Chile for 5 years and what you’re saying it’s 100 true. But unfortunately, fresh bread in Chile isn’t made the way it would be made in Europe or the Middle East or other less industrialized countries of South America. Cut a marraqueta and see the bubble structure inside. Then cut a bread that was fermented over a long period (like a baguette) and see the difference. Little bubbles means it was fermented (leudado) very very fast! Allullas may be the exception. But I agree, Chilean bread culture is far better than what we have in the USA. ¡Viva Chile, mier…!
Soy argenitno, pero viajo relativamente seguido para Chile porque parte de mi familia es chilena. Las marraquetas son lo más! Tuve que aprender a hacerlas, no me quedó otra jaja. Acá en Argentina también tenemos esa cultura del pan fresco estilo europeo, creo que venimos justo detrás de Chile en el consumo anual per cápita. Se me hace muy raro que en Estados Unidos sea tan exótico el pan fresco. Acá en cada barrio hasy mínimo dos o tres panaderías.
Im from Poland and when I was kiddo me and my friends used to get some pocket money to get some sweats, ice cream etc, but our all time favorite was to go to our local bakery and buy for ourselfs fresh leafs of bread and eat it dry (no toppings, nothing). Sooooo delicious.
I'm a Hungarian, living in Poland. I'm complaining about the piekarnias almost only have sweet things (ratio is like 80-20 or 90-10). I would love to sell my soul for a croissant filled with smoked cheese, but you don't have... dlaczego kurwa? 😢
Right. Same in Germany. Even today, 47 of age, i eat the first slice as soon as i arrive home from the bakery. Maybe with some butter, but mostly pure.
I am Lithuanian. I lived close to Bakery my whole life. Sadly, it's closed now. But, i remember, my mom used to send us to buy bread as a kids. And you used to get bread straight from the Oven. Smell, taste and softness - like nothing else, out of this world. So we used to eat it on the way home. Me and my brothers and sisters returning home with 1/5 bread left: Mom: What the hell happened? Me: Ahm... This... Ahm... A Dog?... Yes, dog attacked us. Mom: FFS not again. Go buy another one. Later if she send us to buy bread, she ask to buy 2 of them instead lol
For me it was the same. As I grew up on the countryside, later on when you grew older, you went at 5 or 6 in the morning on the way home from a party and bought some fresh bread rolls and went home and eat fresh bread rolls and fried eggs with your friends... what a wonderful time
I grew up in the Northeast of England & passed a bakery every day on the way to school. One of my classmates was obliged to 'parent' his younger siblings & would 'buy' them day old bread buns for breakfast on the way to school. The bakery staff knew the childrens' circumstances & made sure that they did not go to school hungry. This was before 'Thatcher the milk snatcher' (spit) stopped the provision of a the third of a pint of milk for every school child, so the children did not suffer from rickets.
In the czech republic and germany also I think you have bakeries build into supermarkets where while you can find one or two brands of packaged bread on the shelves you can go into the next isle to the bakery part of the supermarket and get freshly baked or in lesser ammount atleast heated up fresh buns and bread and sweet and salty pastries. It is absolutely unbelievable to me that fresh pastries are just not a thing in american supermarkets.
I think this is the case in most European supermarkets. We have it here in The Netherlands, I’ve also seen it in Belgium, Greece, Spain. I still prefer the local bakery and luckily mine is just around the corner (less lucky for my weight 😅).
I'm Dutch, so while I'm not in France, I can confirm that it usually is 5 minutes of walking - not driving - to the nearest bakery. There are 4 bakeries within a 5-minute walk radius around me, and supermarkets have their own bakery, so if I add those, there would be 9 in total.
I am German and I live 2 minutes away from three different bakeries. Additionally I would suggest trying all the bread in central Europe, French bread is delicious, German bread also has a long tradition and it is absolutely fantastic.
Food in Europe is fantastic in general, we rules. But despite being French, and loving my baguette because it's amazing and very convenient, i have to give to Germany the award for doing the best bread, you have so much choice and variety, Germany really do the best bread in my opinion.
@@andreacalmado5429 Every country has amazing food, but I've never seen an american restaurant... only mexican, thai, chinese and so on. What food is really invented in the US and not imported now or in the past? 🤔
@@KardoganLR Even if it was imported at some point, they still could've given it a spin of their own, taking influences from all over and making it into something new. There is great “American” Food, particularly in the South and South West, they also have a unique BBQ culture, e.g. - it's just that “bread” is not one of them.
I live in Spain. We also have good bread, and in fact I live about 5 minutes walking away from a bakery (2 bakeries about a year ago, but one of them closed down). The truth is that when you let the bread ferment for long enough, the gluten becomes more digestible for our body. The increasing number of cases of gluten allergy is mainly due to that, because the bread has not fermented long enough and the body cannot digest the gluten properly
The central difference between food safety laws in the US vs the EU is this: in the US, you must prove that an ingredient or additive is harmful for it to be banned. In the EU, you must prove that an ingredient or additive is safe before it will be allowed.
Bakery's are usual in 5 min walking distance. You should see German bread. I could be wrong but I think we're number one in regards to variety with ~3200 different types of bread.
That is the number of officially registered versions, alone. There are way more kinds of bread in Germany, because not every version gets offcially registered.
A few years a very good friend of mine from the US came over to Germany to work here at a customer 's site for a bunch of weeks. When I after a few weeks got the opportunity to work with him and we went through the pedestrian area he was literarily shocked to see kids (like in the strolly) delightfully chewing on bread (not like chocolate croissants, just bread), as if the parents gave them candy, so he basically bought some to find out by himself and he was like "Now I actually get what you meant, when you asked, if there are places to buy real bread in the US" ... I know, there are some hidden gems, of course, but even if, it is like a luxury endeavor rather than something normal. I can say, that my wife and I found a lovely little bakery north of the Golden Gate Bridge (I think ins Sausalito), where you could get proper bakery products and good coffee, too :) I agree, if you can, cut your bread only before you eat, it is so much more delicious when it is totally fresh!
In Denmark we basically have different stages for all this, we have more preserved bread in stores, but the stores also have bakery departements (some also have a butcher) and we have plenty of local bakeries. My city of 5000-ish have 2 bakeries
I live in France in a small village in Normandy, we are about 900 inhabitants there are more cows and horses than peopleand we have two bakeries. (a bit like everywhere in France).
Nice reaction! I've got a bakery in the next house and then there's a couple more places within 5 minutes of walking distance, and I live in a small city. More of a small town. Making some scones at home is one of the quickest and most rewarding things imo. Amazing with only some butter.
I realy like how genuine you are in your reactions😆. Im in the Netherlands. We have not even half the bread culture as France or Germany (wish we did. LOVE bread). But we DO like our bread fresh and cherish bakeries. All supermarkets have good, eatable, sort of semi fresh bread (some bake it in their in house bakery). "My" bakery is 3 min walk. Fresh bread has gotten really expensive. But every afternoon it's in discount. So the bakery doesn't have to throw away bread. Well, they don't anyway. What's left goes in the freezer and to the local foodbank. To be honest.... How he describes bread in the US, almost makes me vomit in my mouth a bit....🤭🙈.
I feel that the UK is kinda halfway between France and USA. Our supermarkets sell both the plastic long life bread (albeit without the cancer inducing ingredients) and the fine artisan type bread that is even cooked instore daily. We don't have as many individual bakeries as France does though which is a crying shame.
We used to, but independent bakeries are increasingly rare. Greggs are partly to blame as they put a lot of them out of business. At least our supermarkets do give you the option of fresh bread, pastries, etc and even the sliced bread doesn't have as much crap in it as US bread.
I live in a nice part of London, I have 4 really good bakeries within 5 minutes walk, one authentically French (owned by the French master baker), one from a small posh Jewish chain, one Belgian (another centre of excellence for bread) and one British/Irish artisan bakers, they all make fabulous bread and you can chop and change for more variety, I haven’t bought supermarket bread for over 20 years. Those ‘bakeries’ inside supermarkets aren’t bakers, they just reheat pre made bread, it’s all a fake to make people think that it’s freshly made.
13:50 The difference is more like in the USA everything is legal by default only if authorities find something it's forbidden, in Europe you have to prove with scientific studies that it's safe
Here in Quebec (the french province of Canada), we have banned all the same ingredients as the EU. We have continued the tradition of baking bread some are commercial but many are traditional. To put it in perspective if the USA have 3000 bakeries for a pop of over 330M we have just over 1100 bakeries for a pop of 8.8M. You don't have to got far to try bread that have 2-3 ingredients in them. PS commercial bread have a 2-3 day shelf life here 😉.
That's how long a real bread should last for before going stale- and it absolutely should be going stale and not get moldy like that factory made crap.
I work i a plastic factory with extrusion. He talks about Azodicarbonamide. Its a propellant(hope thats the right word) we only work with masks with that additiv. Its explosiv under pressure and is used for car dashbords from expensive cars. If you touch them it feels soft. And for plasicwrap. If you want to you can google azodicarbonamid accidents. Whole factories were destroyed. But yeah...americans put that in their bread so when it reacts without much pressure it just looks soft and round and brighter/more white.
You really have the best smile, gotta hand it to you. Great video! Must be the third of fourth time I've seen this bread video being reacted to, still really interesting and usually makes for good reactions :) How do you only have 5.67k subs anyway? That's insane
Europeans usually don't measure distances as driving, As everything is within walking/cycling distance, Whether walking or cycling is default differs per area, but in France walking would be the default. If they do measure driving distance, they'll specify "by car" Because in most places public transportation is a viable alternative And as such is a common measure of driving distance too.
I'm always impressed by French and other European bread culture. The little town I was in for a few months had three bakeries, two less than five minutes walk away. It's got to be close if you have to go out before you can have breakfast! Respect to the bakers who choose this way of life too. Driving back from a very long night's work, and at 4am the bakeries were already staffed and taking deliveries - a blaze of light and activity in an otherwise sleepy little place.
I'm a Dutchman living in a quite remote part of Greece and we mostly bake our own bread but the nearest village, population of about 2000, has five bakeries that sell locally baked bread. Really good bread too but not vary great on variety. What I've found is that the best place for bread in Europe is in Süd Tirol, the part of Tirol that's in north Italy, where you'll find this wonderful mix of French, Italian and Austrian bread culture. The variety, even in the smallest bakeries is beyond the borders of belief.
I lived in a Canadian town of 3500 and that was not enough to keep a single bakery open for very long. Every couple of years a new one would try again and fail immediately. It sucked.
@@TheTekknician it's pre baked on mass with additives to prolong shelf life, check out the ingredients. Common emulsifiers include: Diacetyltartaric acid esters of monoglycerides (DATEM) Calcium stearoyl lactylate Monoglycerides and Diglycerides of fatty acids Common dough conditioners include: L-cysteine Amylase Ascorbic acid Potassium bromate It's highly processed and shit for you.
I have visited Rio de Janeiro several times with my first wife who was from Brazil, and it was my first experience with this kind of European bread culture. Breakfast every morning involved going down to the local bakery on the corner for fresh bread. We would have the bread with different cheeses, and meats. There's simply no comparison to what passes for bread in this country. American mass-produced bread is just devoid of all character. Also, there's really something to be said for crust that is chewy, flaky, caramelized... Just so good.
In Brazil we also have this culture of bread. There are 70k bakeries spread across the country. And the most consumed bread is similar to the French baguette, only in a small format (around 50g), based on water and not milk, its crust is crunchy and its crumb soft, it is called "French bread". In the city of São Paulo alone, 15M of these breads are consumed daily. There are many brands of industrialized bread, but we usually buy it for an emergency or to do something specific.
Love that! My husband lived in Brazil for a couple of years and he says that sometimes he would walk to the bakery and just eat an entire loaf of bread for breakfast. 😂💜
French baguette is made of wheat, salt, water and fresh yeast, no milk. If you have milk in your recipe, it is then "une brioche", "un pain au lait" or "un pain brioché" depending on the recipe, and those are sugary "viennoiseries" (there are different variations for sure). "Pain viennois" is a type of bread but a little bit sugary, no milk user but water as in the bread. It is used for sandwiches etc it is too complicated to explain, you have to see and taste them 😅
oh come on, no need to lie like that. Of all the places I know, Brazil is probably one of the them that consumes less bread daily. In fact, there is no culture of accompanying meals with bread, they do it with white rice (very good by the way) No restaurant in Brazil places bread on the table when you go for lunch or dinner
@@victortepes1540 It isn't a lie. We don't eat bread like you wrote. We eat bread at breakfast and dinner in home. We don't have the culture of eat bread at restaurants before "meal", we eat bread in home or in bakeries. Edit.: And we eat rice with beans at lunch, our principal meal.
As a German that lived in the US for 12 years, he is truly spitting facts. I love going to the bakery every morning and getting myself some Brötchen and slapping some marmalade on it. It is something I have taken with me whenever I visit my friends in the US.
This little "society" clip at 5:33 is actually from another great video you should definitely put on your list. It's called "history of the entire world, i guess" and it's 20 minutes of exactly that, but fast paced with a lot of humor and creatively animated. Worth a watch. Or maybe several times^^
2 years ago at age 60 i made my first from scratch bread, flour water and yeast, experimentation with what seem like insignificant changes to the mix or the timing of all the stages from amalgamation of the 3 ingredients to the baking time or even the place in the oven where you choose to bake your bread will produce the bread you love, if you persevere. my bread is pale yellowy white inside , with a crust i love that i have made through experimentation, in warm places it will only last to the day after baking, preservation depends solely on the care and storage of your creation, and not on "for profit chemistry" great vid again Heidi. keep up the good work. and make some bread !
As someone who lives outside of the US in an ex- French colony (that has wholeheartedly adopted the fresh bread culture and has multiple bakeries per neighbourhood) this is so strange and fascinating to me. 'Long Lasting, soft, american style bread' is kind of a novelty item here. People try it out but they rarely adopt it. Seeing this, bakeries tried to adapt to the changing times and the western influence, and we now have bakery made sliced bread or hamburger bread, that just tastes a 1000x times better even if it doesn't last as long, or isn't as 'white'. After tasting Hamburgers made with those, regular fast food hamburgers taste so inferior!
French bread is definitely different and sooo good. I loved it when I was there. It makes me so glad my dad taught me how to make bread like his mom taught him.
To give the amount of bakeries some context, I used to go skiing in Val Thorens, with an altitude of 2300 m (7545 ft) above sea level. So quite remote, it had 2 bakeries off the top of my head, probably more. At the start of the week you can go to the bakery, give your hotel name and room number and your order, as well as the time you’d want it delivered. and every morning they’d knock on your door (free wake up call) and hand you this order. We’d get 2 baguettes and 12 croissants every day for our breakfasts and lunch. Still warm from being baked, and at the end of the week you’d pay for it. Fresh bread hand delivered to you, I’d highly recommend visiting France if you get the chance.
Hello, first comment here from a french living in France, and I never realized that you, american friends, were eating this kind of bread on a daily basis. We can buy breads akin to yours in supermarkets, but we rarely use them, except for student sandwiches or somethings like that. When the original youtuber said about 5 min away from the boulangerie (bakery), it's WALKING time, we have them everywhere, I can chose between three of them in something like 3-5 minutes of walk, and a lot of them are pastry shops on top of that, so we can buy our bread AND some pastries with a great diversity.
14:44 "I smell some urban design policy changes". Yes ! Paris as well as most french cities (and also european cities as a whole) are in the process of making their cities more bikeable. It's actually a driving huge debates in Paris, especially online on Twitter. Since there many people for having the city more bikeable and walkable, but also some people who hate bikes for some weird reasons and are actively trying to slow down the process, and also some people who are feeling left out because they feel like they're "losing freedom" by not being able to drive their cars in more and more streets. There are even content creators covering their bike commutes to document the evolution of the cities, and infrastructure problems that need to get addressed, etc. Like for example, for Paris, "Altis play" is one more the most notable ones (it's in french though, but he does sometimes subtitles his videos in english, but it's rare).
Love your reactions. And uuhhh…. Start making your own bread. So many videos on how to simply make bread. For instance no-kneed bread. Just need bread flower, dried yeast, water and salt. A dutch oven comes in handy. It’s fun and delicious. You’ll know exactly what goes in. Don’t use it for yoga though.
You definitely should. It takes some practice, but basically it’s not difficult. I bake most of my bread, even though in the Netherlands there is plenty of good bread to be found. It’s just fun. One advise: after baking let it cool down. Cut slices, put it in a plastic bag and freeze it over. That way you always have fresh bread. Just let some slices warm up and eat.
@@HailHeidi I'm also making my own bread, even though there are about 4 or 5 bakeries in a 5 minutes walking distance from my place :) it's just I'm too lazy to go out to buy bread every day ... I'm using a bread machine and it's really simple.
As a Dutch I’m not familiar with a Dutch oven, but I made my bread using a bread(baking)machine. Put all the three ingredients in a pot, select the program and time of finish the baking process and by that every day super fresh bread.
I recall seeing a documentary which had scenes from a French high-security prison. Each inmate got their meals delivered to their cell, rather than risk allowing them to congregate. With each meal, they got a fresh baguette. They were dangerous criminals, but they weren't fed muck. There's a whole literature on the dangers of feeding prisoners badly, as happens in the US and UK.
When industrialized bread was first introduced to my country, it was called "American toast" (it had the US flag and everything) and my mom would only let me have it on the weekends as a treat because of all the "mysterious chemicals" in it :D
The funny thing is, you could take it on a trip to France, take it all round France, through Germany , Belgium, into the UK up to Scotland into Ireland, ferry to Spain, Portugal, down to Gibraltar, maybe over to Morocco, a cruise around the med up to Scandinavia, back to the US - and it STILL wouldn’t be stale, it’s not made with food
The tradition of bread is spread all over Europe. In Portugal, if you don't have fresh bread at the table during a meal is almost sacrilegious (We even have old sayings about it). We also have bakeries everywhere and even the big supermarkets/Groceries will have a bakery inside making fresh bread everyday (several times a day/ different styles)
When I lived in France, every day I'd get out of bed, walk down to the bakery, buy croissants and 2 baguettes, warm and fresh out of the oven and consume at least half of the baguette on the way home!!
I'm a South African who lives in Australia. I spent like3 months ion France and the bread and wine were cheap and amazing. I would live there in a heartbeat. Paris gives the rest of France a bad reputation. They are actually wonderful humble people. And those 3 months were some of the best of my life.
Measuring Countries by their Capitals is a bad metric anyway. Take Brasilia for example. It's a million city slapped right into the heart of a rain forest. If we would take this as the way too judge Brazil as a whole the result would be "clinically insane". But obviously that's not the case.
I'm german and went to school in the 1980ies. At 10th form we go on a class trip and we always picked West-Berlin as destination because it's subsidised if we attend a tour and a lecture on the (full operating at these days) Berlin wall. These lectures were attended by many people. There was a US soldier taking part. At the end questions were possible. The US soldier said: "I always wondered why the Berlin Wall didn't get damaged during World War 2"
In my city I only need 2 minutes to walk to my bakery. I have a huge selection of breads and baked goods there. In Germany there are 45,000 bakery outlets and a bread museum. With around 3,200 registered types of bread, guild bakers have made it: The German bread culture was included in the nationwide list of intangible cultural heritage by the national UNESCO commission in 2014. And in general, the bread in Europe, whether in France, Italy, etc., is simply delicious. It is very sad to hear that there is little good bread in the US. I couldn't live without good bread.
I am in the UK, I once bought a large granary loaf in the local market and thick slices spread with farmhouse butter was the only thing I ate until it was gone. The local Tescos bakes bread on the premises, the best before date, is the date it's baked and you buy it.
That comment she made about governments having an interest in public health, (or not having an interest) was definitely thought-provoking. It makes so much sense when explained like that!
Most American bread could not be classified as bread in Europe due to having too much sugar in. There was a legal case in Ireland a few years ago because Subway used their American recipe for their bread. Their “bread” was 10% sugar. The limit is 2%. The court case wasn’t really about naming, but tax. You don’t pay VAT (sales tax) on bread sandwiches.
@@somyle5470 we had Subway in Croatia. they started with one location in the center of Zagreb, then slowly expanded to 9 locations. in 2009 they closed all of their locations and left. they didn't do well here but they also didn't want to disclose why they left. in 2017 they came back with one store and in 2021 they announced that they were leaving again and they did close. at the time they fist came, we were still acustomed to people in the store making our sandwich or just buying a quarter of a bread (or half if you are a big guy) and ask them to cut it for us so we can make our own sandwiches from what we bought (when we work and have a break). now all the bakeries have sandwiches of all kinds. and they're much cheaper than subways sandwiches. I tried Subway sandwiches but there was nothing special here about them. I don't know anyone who ever talked about Subway or said anything positive about their sandwiches. it was usually "small and nothing special, but i had to try it". and that's probably what it was - everyone tried it, some tried it a few times, but it wasn't like it became a place where you go for a sandwich. even when it was the closest to us (at work), we just went to bakery or the store to get something to eat.
As a Brit, I always look forward to my my annual visit to France to see my sister. The bread is amazing there. By law they're only allowed to use 3 ingredients yeast, flour and salt. If you buy a baguette from a UK supermarket, the list of ingredients reads like an encyclopedia, it's full of "stabilisers" and "preservatives" etc. French bread is the best I've ever had.
@@cr0wnoss We can get the cheese, the saucisson and the wine (all genuine French stuff), but without the bread it's pointless. The difference between your (French) bread and the bread us Brits get is like the difference between an own-brand frozen pizza from the supermarket compared to the best pizza from the best pizzeria using wood fired ovens, they're not even close to being the same thing.
Not sure where you are getting your bread from...the UK has plenty of fresh breads available..all supermarkets have an in-store bakery with a huge variety of bread made with natural ingredients..even sliced bread is only fresh for two days, we tend to freeze it and use a couple of slices at a time. All the additives used in America are banned here...we have very strict labelling laws so ingredient lists may seem long but it you read them you will find it is because every single component has to be listed, a French baguette may just say flour, where as ours will say wheat flour plus all the vitamins that can naturally be found in that flour, this goes for every ingredient. Don't get me wrong, French bread, and German and Italian, are delicious, but so is most of UK bread too. We pride ourselves on providing well regulated food...for instance, McDonald fries here have three ingredients, potatoes, salt and the oil they are cooked in..check out America's fries, it's mindboggling!
@@lynnhamps7052 Absolute nonsense. The French are only allowed to use 3 ingredients, yeast, flour and salt. You cannot compare french bread to UK bread, at all... I just took a photo of the ingredients to a simple white loaf I just happened to have in my kitchen, from probably the UK's most famous bread brand: Flour (with added calcium, niacin (B3) and iron), Thiamin (B1), water, yeast, salt, vegetable oil (oil?), sunflower oil, rapeseed oil, sustainable palm oil in varying proportions, soya flour, emulsifiers (E472e, E481: preservative: calcium propionate, flour treatment agent: ascorbic acid). Even local bakeries add stuff to their bread. The next time you're in a major supermarket, pick up a baguette from the "bakery" (all the dough arrives in tubs from the factory, and all they do is put it in the oven), turn it over and look at the list of ingredients, there's at least 20. in France, there's just 3. Flour, yeast and salt. *EDIT: spelling.
I live in a tiny town in Denmark, with about 4000 inhabitants, and we have two different bakeries, one is about 5-6 min walk away from where I live and the other is maybe 13-15 min walk away
@Mark Hamstra its true. I live in Ireland. The Supreme Court ruled their bread contained 5 times the weight of sugar to flour allowed to be legally called bread in Ireland. It was therefore deemed "confectionery" for tax purposes.
@@Shenanigan5 It’s false. There are many kinds of bread in the world. Two of the fundamental categories of bread are those made from lean doughs and those made from enriched doughs. Lean doughs contain just flour, water, yeast and salt. Enriched doughs contain additions of various fats, sugars, dairy and eggs. For example, brioche dough is enriched mostly with butter, challah is enriched mostly with eggs, and Brötchen is enriched mostly with milk. Subway’s bread is an enriched dough bread. Ireland’s tax law treats lean breads and breads with very little enrichment differently from other breads, deeming them a staple commodity that is not subject to the VAT. Subway wanted their bread to be treated as a staple for tax purposes, but were denied by the court. That means that Subway’s bread is subject to the VAT, just like many other varieties of enriched dough breads that are deemed not to be staples for tax purposes is Ireland. That doesn’t mean that these enriched breads cannot be called, sold or advertised as bread in Ireland or that the Irish courts have said that any of these enriched breads are legally “cake” or “confectionery” - that’s all a persistent myth originating from bad reporting and the Internet echo chamber, not from Irish tax law and court rulings.
Here in the UK one good trend is that more and more supermarkets have their own on site bakeries. It is not as good as real bakers but much better than the big brand name breads (Hovis, Mothers Pride, Warburton etc).
I have a question tho, why do you use the chemical bread instead of real bread for sandwiches? Because when I was in the UK and in Ireland there were a lot of those sandwiches, while I was used to seeing sandwiches made with normal bread (i kinda assumed real bread wasn't that much available in countries speaking English because of perhaps availability of ingredients)
@@irenecarrillo6750 I dunno man but the softness just hits different, also since its mechanical sliced it more consistent? And that's ignoring that sometimes you just want a sandwich at ome and constantly spoiling true bread is inconvenient for that
15:00 I used to work at Panera and I’m not a fan of this take. Sure a lot of the processes and ingredients have been implemented to speed up the sandwich making, and they freeze meat, sauces, soups, and things like that, but the one thing that is still authentic is the bread, bagels, and pastries. There is a baker that goes into every Panera, every night at like 6 or 7 pm and they bake bread and pastries all night until 5 or 6 am. There is always at least one person in a Panera bread. The bread dough is refrigerated, it’s never frozen, and it’s actually fresh every morning. That goes for ALL the bread in the store. Including all of the sandwich bread. The person who runs the upfront bakery at 6am is cutting bread all morning, every morning.
It blows my mind that normal bakery is a "luxury" and "fancy" in murica.. wtf I literally have 2 bakeries 15 min walk apart and no one, literally no one thinks it's something special, it's the most normal thing to do - buy bread products from bakery. Even supermarkets have bakeries inside them and in Lidl it's all behind glass wall so you can even watch how they do it.
There are even laws against small businesses (like bakeries would be) operating in suburbs as that would appearently devalue the houses in the immediate area in some states. American City Planners: Walking to Discount Stores and small businesses for more specific needs every other day? Nah. Driving to a Superstore once or twice in a week? Hell yeah!
I like this trend you're on. It's stuff I would watch anyway, and now I get to hear your opinion along with it. For some reason, I also tend to hang out with people with a Mormon upbringing, Could have something to do with living near Hill Cumorah, but I think we have similar values/practices despite never being Mormon, myself. I like watching both Johnny Harris and Sam Harris. Used to work at Harris. Behind around a lot of Harris, too. Anyway, got plenty more of your videos to catch up on yet. Keep it up. Looks good.
i love the disgusted face you made when you noticed that bacteria is eating when you think its rising. Yes, love - that is what happens. all the time, everywhere - and you eat them. they are everywhere. its science. learn to love it, or you going to have to keep that face forever, as bacteria is everywhere.
@@olivierdk2 Yeast. Those are fungi, not bacteria. Same is true for many kinds of bread. There are however some kinds of bread that uses lactic acid bacteria.
Another great video! By the way, you did not have to mention that you find the described ripening process of the dough unappetizing - we all could see it in your face ... Both times ;-) Do a picture search for "German bread culture". BUT: Please prepare one of your absolute favorite snacks beforehand - because you will need it immediately when you see the pictures!
The whole food in the US is kind of "strange" ... Just take some easy (French) Fries at MCD! In the EU it has 3 ingriedents only: potatoe, oil, salt! That's it! In the US it's like 27 ingridients!? o_O
If there is no bakery in your area, you can simply make bread yourself. It's not rocket science, and you know exactly what is in it. Plus it really taste great when it is still warm from the oven. You can also use a small bread making machine. Btw I have 2 bakeries within 5 minutes walking distance, and further 2 bakeries within 10 minutes walking distance (Germany, in a town with ~23,000 inhabitants)
The problem she might have is finding flour that hasn't been tainted with preservatives or that isn't made from GM plants, regardless of the type of flour.
Seems few of your videos, ordered a bread book ‘Richard Hart Bread’(he got a bakery in my town(Copenhagen, Denmark), so I know his bread and bakery is among the best and I cannot wait to see what I’ll learn about breadbaking and hopefully bake some of the best at home.
Here in Finland many larger stores have their own bakery, for a variety of fresh breads every day. Other stores bring in fresh bread from various bakeries, and you don't really get the sort of industrial white mush that dominates the US bread market (and the Canadian one too, it seems - I was an exchange student in Canada and after a year of eating that mush, when I got back, I ate almost nothing but different kinds of rye bread for a month. 😄) Here we use a lot of rye too - really all the cereals - in making bread. We eat A LOT of rye bread, and there's so much variety even just in rye breads. On top of that, you get everything else.
Siis onhan Suomessa aikalailla näitä valmiiksi leikattuja "leipiä", jotka ovat melkoisen eri tuote kuin perinteinen leipä, jossa on noin kolme ainesosaa. Tavallinen leipä kuivuu nopeasti, jos sen viipaloi. Siksi viipaloidut leivät sisältävät mm. (rapsi)öljyä. Ruis taas kuten mainitsit on Suomen ylpeys ja omaperäisyytemme. Hattu kouraan ja kaikki kunnia ruisleivälle!
@@Xopeto1 Juu, on - mutta suomessa myytävä viipaloitu valkea leipä on hyvin kaukana Amerikassa myytävästä "leivästä". Mitään edes lähellä samanlaista en ole Suomesta - onneksi - löytänyt.
We have so many breads that use other flours than just wheat here. Oat, barley and rye are the most used ones besides the wheat. Most breads contain at least some wheat flours except the 100% rye breads which only contain rye flours, salt, water and yeast if the rye bread is not a sourdough bread. We also use other incredients like my favorite one, which is rye potato bread. It contains mainly rye, potato, malts, salt and water. There just is no better bread in my mind to eat with a soup (Preferably salmon soup).
you get even more different bread in Germany... we also have Baguettes ;D we have 300+ different kinds of bread. Come to Germany and visit each Country which bordered to Germany... that is culture experience.
@@magmalin There are definitely some super-excellent-extraordinaire bakeries in France, but it's not like they invented bread nor are the only country with a bread culture. It's not even a thing exclusive to Europe. Damn, now I want bread. Gonna go down for some.
I'm Brazilian and, contrary to what some other commenters have said, we do consume a lot of bread, at least twice a day, for breakfast and for an afternoon snack. That's when we choose to replace lunch or dinner with a meal with bread. Now, March 29, 2023, 20:21 pm, I just had coffee with bread, cheese and a delicious homemade biscuit. 😋
Hi Heidi, if you really want to learn something about bread? Forget the French bread look in Germany for 3200 different varieties. It's bread paradise.
Depends heavily on the type of bread you make too, my mother has a entire recipe book for just a bunch of different breads. Starts making them early in the morning and they're done for lunch or dinner. There is nothing better then that fresh bread smell. Fresh bread is just so much more superior to the machine stuff, and am very lucky to live somewhere where its easy to buy and/or to make yourself.
In France, you go to the baker to get fresh, delicious bread. Then you go next door to the butcher and get sausage and ham, if you like cheese go go get that (I am not a cheese person), and you can supplement with some fresh fruit or vegetable, and you end up with a fresh, delicious, healthy and nutricious meal. A group of friends and I lived that way for a tenday in Normandy some years ago.
7:15 haha 😄 😆 🤣 here in Germany you are like 2 minutes away. I have to walked down the street 300meters and I have 3 bakeries and another 400meters there are 3 more 🤣
08:00 Yes, it is correct that there have been studies which confirmed that it's better to eat sitting down, but in certain particular conditions it can help to stand. What really helps every time it's what you choose to eat, to eat slowly and stay hydrated.
Im norwegian and in my area the supermarkets gets their bread from local bakeries daily, some stores get deliveries twice a day, so its really fresh (but becomes stale in 2-3 days). We also have some variants of pre sliced bread that has a couple of weeks shelf life, but those are pretty rare and I dont see people buying them much at all as the taste and freshness is just far inferior.
One smallvcaveat: France is really good at making baguettes. If you want a great variety of great breads you should look at Germany that has registered thousands of different delicious types of bread. And we in Austria have quite a few of our own. What Americans call btead is called Toast here because almost no one would eat it without being toasted first...
One of the biggest differences between walking whilst eating vs sitting down is that you're focused on walking/getting to your next destination/getting shiz done vs focused on having a meal. Generally speaking you eat far faster and consume more whilst doing something else than when you're focused on just having a meal, so you don't give your body time to say 'hey, i'm full, time to stop'... I'm sure there are many many other factors to this, that's just one of 'em.
I had to laugh so hard when dude mentioned everyone lives 5 minutes away from a bakery and u asked if that’s driving distance that’s so American I love it ❤
I live in a small town of 3,000 people and many more cows. There are two bakeries in the city center (there used to be 3 but the owner of the third died). They are 3 minutes walk from each other. When one closes the other remains open. That way we always have bread. Except that since I live literally opposite the first bakery and therefore take a few seconds to get bread (the time to cross the one-way road), the three minutes of walking necessary to get to the other seems much longer.
The closest bakery is 10 secondes from the entrance of my building. Going to a bakery seems so ordinary for us. Yes, there is also industrial bread, but, why buying it ? There are three bakeries in my village !
I believe there are about 3.000 bakeries here in the Netherlands as well... and the US is over 200 times bigger with almost 20 times the amount of citizens that we have. And we're not even that fond of bread in itself. Btw, we do also have quite a few factories that make dough, but a lot of it is frozen and gets transported to the supermarket before the bread is baked. So it still tastes really good. Bakeries only provide like a quarter of the bread we consume.
Here in Norway we get fresh bread delivered to our door every monring, bread that just came out of the baker's oven. So good! We also mostly use multigrain bread, much healthier than white bread.
13:45 Yes in Sweden we have a concept called friskvård. litterally health care but we call carning for someone who's sick sjukvård sick care. Friskvård is doing things to keep healthy people healthy.
Little lady you have got to fall down the Johnny Harris rabbit hole. Johnny is from southern Oregon Ashland I believe. Him and his wife are awesome folks on the tube! They have some of the greatest content on this platform. Happy holidays to you and yours. Peace everyone.
In Stuttgart, Germany, I live about 5 to 10 minutes walking distance from nearly every relevant shopping facility, including several supermarkets, restaurants and - bakeries. I have lived in places where shops and bakeries were more than 30 minutes by foot away, but even then, I easily could bike there within 10 to 15 minutes.
In Galicia, northwestern Spain, after a time of supermarket-bought bread, we are returning to traditional bakeries that make bread with wood-fired ovens. Bread is for us an essential companion to any meal, bad bread spoils a good dish. Fortunately, all the essentials for my life, post office, pharmacy, bar, grocery stores ... are less than 15 minutes walk away, we never count the distance by car time
Honestly I learned to make bread maybe 10 yrs ago - first 7 attempts were failures until I figured out my mistakes and honestly its soo easy takes 10 min then prooving (and clean up haha) 20 min in the oven, the house smells amazing, its not expensive and really therapeutic. Ill do and half the time just give it to a neighbour, just like making it - taking a bowl of flour yeast and water into something great
07:00 - definetly 5 minutes walking - in europe generally when someone talks about distance in time units (in cities) - the default is walking. If not he would probably automatically add 5 minutes by tram , or by car , or by bike, etc. Most of european cities are designed so that most people can have a small shop, or a bakery or pharmacy or green market or a caffe - etc, etc in 5 - 15 minutes walk from you
That is so true - walking is the default.
this city was built before there were cars and trains. of course so everyone walks
I could also be at the nearest bakery on foot in five minutes. But I prefer to walk 10 minutes because the bakery is better.
It's fascinating that in the US the first idea is 5mins by car cos there is basically no walking infrasctructure. In Europe there is a small shop a walkable distance on every corner.
also 5min drive means it's to close to drive : )
I'm from Poland and I work in a bakery. Not as a baker, but a person responsible, among other things, for cutting bread on a special machine. I remember, that one day a woman called us with a complaint. She was furious and demanding refund. She said we were selling old bread because it was stale after just three days. She couldn't believe that here, it's normal. She claimed that she had lived in the USA for over 30 years and bread was fresh there for two or even three weeks. In the end, she said she'll never buy bread from our bakery because we are frauds.
lol
It's ignorance. She'll have figured it out in another two or three weeks.
I have visited and travelled all over Europe for Work and throughout Eastern Europe I (I'm Irish) thought the bread, even in fairly expensive hotels, was stale - so I asked a Polish friend of mine - and he told me that his Mother wouldn't allow bread to be served in her house if it wasn't at least five days old - according to her, eating bread that wasn't at least five days old was dangerous for your health...
@@michaelodonnell824 This is weird. I've travelled all over Europe too and never had that experience.
Maybe you went during covid, when Hotels were all close to bankruptcy?
@@a5cent Hi. No. This travel was before Covid. This Stale bread phenomenon was an Eastern European thing that I came across in Poland, Hungary and Russia.
Elsewhere in Europe, the bread was always fresh and often warm, no matter what time of the day...
@@michaelodonnell824 Weird. I've never been to Russia, but I have traveled throughout Poland. I've also been to Hungary but only Budapest.
Anyway, I was never served stale bread in either of those countries. Strange.
That you measure the time in driving distance is already such a US thing 😂
I'm sad for her.
@@olivierdk2 I don't know. I'm glad I live where I live but feeling sad for others specifically seems condescending.
@@fzoid3534 Ain't we known for that in France ?
@@olivierdk2 I can't tell.. I'm not French.
Cars are all around though.. even in The Netherlands which has some of the most bike lanes as we learned in a video before cars are being used like crazy.
I personally don't even have one and I'm older than most people here. The cities I lived in had either good public transportation (e g. Berlin) or were small enough so you could get everywhere by bike.
We have that joke though that Americans use the car for any distance that is longer than the car😜
Her asking if it was by car or by foot I find hilarious.
Having been to multiple states in U.S I agree with Olivier, it is saddening that they have such a terrible infrastructure for walking in a lot of places, the only place I could actually walk was New York City and partly Minneapolis, seems to only be available in urban centres, you will have a horrible time outside of the cities, the lack of sidewalks was wild to me, it's either almost meter long grass or on the road itself, neither felt safe.
You'll find sidewalks in suburban areas, sometimes overgrown and often they don't have sidewalks connecting to the city, only within the suburban.
So, I understand why they use a car for everything, I can't blame them.
The fact that her mind went straight to driving when the 5min. was mentioned shows how broken the infrastructure is in the US
I just love your reactions Heidi! In Germany, the bread tradition is as important as in France. (I love French croissants) Fun Facts: The German Bread Register of the German Bread Institute currently lists over 3,000 different bread specialties that are baked and sold every day in Germany. There are approx. 9,965 companies with around 35,000 branches (approx. 45,000 sales outlets) There is even a bread museum in Germany. The German bread culture was even included in the nationwide list of intangible cultural heritage by the national UNESCO commission in 2014. If you ask Germans abroad what they miss the most, you usually get the answer: German bread.
I would argue, that the German bread culture is even more extreme than the French one. After all, the German bread culture is part of UNESCO world heritage, while the French one isn't...
I lived in Germany for 6 years and you couldn't be more right. Where I lived there were 4 bakeries on the main street. One literally in front of the other and they always had customers inside.
@@m.h.6470 French bread is not UNESCO world heritage but their french cuisine "Cuisine Française" is since 2010.
@@m.h.6470 Germany has a much more powerful yeast based cuisine. Better beer, great breads, excellent yeast leavened cake.
I once tried German bread while on holiday in the region of Friuli in Italy, I get that maybe it wasn't as good as in Germany but still it was so good.
7:01 It's very likely 5 minute walking, and they most likely will come across more than one within that distance.
It's the same for most big cities in France.
In a 5 minute walking distance I've 8 bakeries in my neighborhood in Toulouse.
In Chile, we also have this "bread culture", and I couldn't imagine living without fresh bread, even in supermarkets there's a section where they make bread, and you can literally see them making it.
Also, it's such an American thing to ask if it's 5 minutes by car hahahahahah it's 5 minutes walking, usually that's the default.
I lived in Chile for 5 years and what you’re saying it’s 100 true. But unfortunately, fresh bread in Chile isn’t made the way it would be made in Europe or the Middle East or other less industrialized countries of South America. Cut a marraqueta and see the bubble structure inside. Then cut a bread that was fermented over a long period (like a baguette) and see the difference. Little bubbles means it was fermented (leudado) very very fast!
Allullas may be the exception. But I agree, Chilean bread culture is far better than what we have in the USA. ¡Viva Chile, mier…!
Soy argenitno, pero viajo relativamente seguido para Chile porque parte de mi familia es chilena. Las marraquetas son lo más! Tuve que aprender a hacerlas, no me quedó otra jaja. Acá en Argentina también tenemos esa cultura del pan fresco estilo europeo, creo que venimos justo detrás de Chile en el consumo anual per cápita. Se me hace muy raro que en Estados Unidos sea tan exótico el pan fresco. Acá en cada barrio hasy mínimo dos o tres panaderías.
Im from Poland and when I was kiddo me and my friends used to get some pocket money to get some sweats, ice cream etc, but our all time favorite was to go to our local bakery and buy for ourselfs fresh leafs of bread and eat it dry (no toppings, nothing). Sooooo delicious.
Wiedzieliście co dobre! :D
I am doing this all the time. Actually just this very moment. And I am 50. 😄
Real bread. 3 ingredients.
I'm a Hungarian, living in Poland. I'm complaining about the piekarnias almost only have sweet things (ratio is like 80-20 or 90-10). I would love to sell my soul for a croissant filled with smoked cheese, but you don't have... dlaczego kurwa? 😢
Right. Same in Germany. Even today, 47 of age, i eat the first slice as soon as i arrive home from the bakery. Maybe with some butter, but mostly pure.
I am Lithuanian. I lived close to Bakery my whole life. Sadly, it's closed now. But, i remember, my mom used to send us to buy bread as a kids. And you used to get bread straight from the Oven. Smell, taste and softness - like nothing else, out of this world. So we used to eat it on the way home.
Me and my brothers and sisters returning home with 1/5 bread left:
Mom: What the hell happened?
Me: Ahm... This... Ahm... A Dog?... Yes, dog attacked us.
Mom: FFS not again. Go buy another one.
Later if she send us to buy bread, she ask to buy 2 of them instead lol
hahahah i had literally the same experience as an Estonian
For me it was the same. As I grew up on the countryside, later on when you grew older, you went at 5 or 6 in the morning on the way home from a party and bought some fresh bread rolls and went home and eat fresh bread rolls and fried eggs with your friends... what a wonderful time
There's a bakery a few miles away I'd pass and I can taste the smell of fresh bread from there even today 😀
same thing in Bulgaria buy two for one ohhh ...memories
I grew up in the Northeast of England & passed a bakery every day on the way to school. One of my classmates was obliged to 'parent' his younger siblings & would 'buy' them day old bread buns for breakfast on the way to school. The bakery staff knew the childrens' circumstances & made sure that they did not go to school hungry. This was before 'Thatcher the milk snatcher' (spit) stopped the provision of a the third of a pint of milk for every school child, so the children did not suffer from rickets.
12:20 this face is priceless. "How is your sandwiche?" "hum well, taste yoga today!"
In the czech republic and germany also I think you have bakeries build into supermarkets where while you can find one or two brands of packaged bread on the shelves you can go into the next isle to the bakery part of the supermarket and get freshly baked or in lesser ammount atleast heated up fresh buns and bread and sweet and salty pastries. It is absolutely unbelievable to me that fresh pastries are just not a thing in american supermarkets.
It is the same thing here in Sweden aswell.
Nothing tastes as good as freshly baked bread and pastries..
That's true, but the bread you get at German supermarkets isn't as good as in local bakeries. But I spose a lot better than in the USA anyway.
I think this is the case in most European supermarkets. We have it here in The Netherlands, I’ve also seen it in Belgium, Greece, Spain.
I still prefer the local bakery and luckily mine is just around the corner (less lucky for my weight 😅).
Norway as well. In smaller grocery stores you might just have a oven where they bake fresh bread.
Yeah, and those packaged breads are usually much more expensive than the fresh, so you end up buying it only if you must, or lazy slicing it.
I'm Dutch, so while I'm not in France, I can confirm that it usually is 5 minutes of walking - not driving - to the nearest bakery. There are 4 bakeries within a 5-minute walk radius around me, and supermarkets have their own bakery, so if I add those, there would be 9 in total.
I am German and I live 2 minutes away from three different bakeries. Additionally I would suggest trying all the bread in central Europe, French bread is delicious, German bread also has a long tradition and it is absolutely fantastic.
Food in Europe is fantastic in general, we rules. But despite being French, and loving my baguette because it's amazing and very convenient, i have to give to Germany the award for doing the best bread, you have so much choice and variety, Germany really do the best bread in my opinion.
@@andreacalmado5429 Every country has amazing food, but I've never seen an american restaurant... only mexican, thai, chinese and so on. What food is really invented in the US and not imported now or in the past? 🤔
@@KardoganLR Even if it was imported at some point, they still could've given it a spin of their own, taking influences from all over and making it into something new. There is great “American” Food, particularly in the South and South West, they also have a unique BBQ culture, e.g. - it's just that “bread” is not one of them.
@@ingmargreil Two of my frieds were in the USA for vacation. They sad the US bread was awful. XD
@@KardoganLR Yes. Bread is definitely not their strong suit.
I live in Spain. We also have good bread, and in fact I live about 5 minutes walking away from a bakery (2 bakeries about a year ago, but one of them closed down).
The truth is that when you let the bread ferment for long enough, the gluten becomes more digestible for our body. The increasing number of cases of gluten allergy is mainly due to that, because the bread has not fermented long enough and the body cannot digest the gluten properly
The central difference between food safety laws in the US vs the EU is this: in the US, you must prove that an ingredient or additive is harmful for it to be banned. In the EU, you must prove that an ingredient or additive is safe before it will be allowed.
The bread-like substance sold in the US is closer to a plastic sponge than it is to an actual piece of bread.
Bakery's are usual in 5 min walking distance. You should see German bread. I could be wrong but I think we're number one in regards to variety with ~3200 different types of bread.
That is the number of officially registered versions, alone. There are way more kinds of bread in Germany, because not every version gets offcially registered.
I live in eastern France (Lorraine) and i frequently go to Germany , and i know that you guys have some insanely good breads and a ton of them
Bread in Germany is great I loved it when I lived there
300 bro, the f*ck did you get 3200 from?!
@@maozedong8370 Zentralverband des Deutschen Bäckerhandwerks Brotregister. The official bread registry of Germany.
A few years a very good friend of mine from the US came over to Germany to work here at a customer 's site for a bunch of weeks. When I after a few weeks got the opportunity to work with him and we went through the pedestrian area he was literarily shocked to see kids (like in the strolly) delightfully chewing on bread (not like chocolate croissants, just bread), as if the parents gave them candy, so he basically bought some to find out by himself and he was like "Now I actually get what you meant, when you asked, if there are places to buy real bread in the US" ...
I know, there are some hidden gems, of course, but even if, it is like a luxury endeavor rather than something normal. I can say, that my wife and I found a lovely little bakery north of the Golden Gate Bridge (I think ins Sausalito), where you could get proper bakery products and good coffee, too :)
I agree, if you can, cut your bread only before you eat, it is so much more delicious when it is totally fresh!
I used to give my daughter bread from the supermarket bakery for the long walk home in England. Beautiful fluffy inside with a golden crusty outside
In Denmark we basically have different stages for all this, we have more preserved bread in stores, but the stores also have bakery departements (some also have a butcher) and we have plenty of local bakeries. My city of 5000-ish have 2 bakeries
I live in France in a small village in Normandy, we are about 900 inhabitants there are more cows and horses than peopleand we have two bakeries. (a bit like everywhere in France).
Nice reaction! I've got a bakery in the next house and then there's a couple more places within 5 minutes of walking distance, and I live in a small city. More of a small town. Making some scones at home is one of the quickest and most rewarding things imo. Amazing with only some butter.
I realy like how genuine you are in your reactions😆. Im in the Netherlands. We have not even half the bread culture as France or Germany (wish we did. LOVE bread). But we DO like our bread fresh and cherish bakeries. All supermarkets have good, eatable, sort of semi fresh bread (some bake it in their in house bakery). "My" bakery is 3 min walk. Fresh bread has gotten really expensive. But every afternoon it's in discount. So the bakery doesn't have to throw away bread. Well, they don't anyway. What's left goes in the freezer and to the local foodbank. To be honest.... How he describes bread in the US, almost makes me vomit in my mouth a bit....🤭🙈.
I feel that the UK is kinda halfway between France and USA. Our supermarkets sell both the plastic long life bread (albeit without the cancer inducing ingredients) and the fine artisan type bread that is even cooked instore daily. We don't have as many individual bakeries as France does though which is a crying shame.
We used to, but independent bakeries are increasingly rare. Greggs are partly to blame as they put a lot of them out of business.
At least our supermarkets do give you the option of fresh bread, pastries, etc and even the sliced bread doesn't have as much crap in it as US bread.
Yes, I love buying fresh bread from our local Morrisons. I often try to get in just as they open when the bread is still warm.
I live in a nice part of London, I have 4 really good bakeries within 5 minutes walk, one authentically French (owned by the French master baker), one from a small posh Jewish chain, one Belgian (another centre of excellence for bread) and one British/Irish artisan bakers, they all make fabulous bread and you can chop and change for more variety, I haven’t bought supermarket bread for over 20 years. Those ‘bakeries’ inside supermarkets aren’t bakers, they just reheat pre made bread, it’s all a fake to make people think that it’s freshly made.
Thank you so much for being so open to learning about the world ❤ That’s awesome and definitely the way forward.
13:50 The difference is more like in the USA everything is legal by default only if authorities find something it's forbidden, in Europe you have to prove with scientific studies that it's safe
Here in Quebec (the french province of Canada), we have banned all the same ingredients as the EU. We have continued the tradition of baking bread some are commercial but many are traditional. To put it in perspective if the USA have 3000 bakeries for a pop of over 330M we have just over 1100 bakeries for a pop of 8.8M. You don't have to got far to try bread that have 2-3 ingredients in them. PS commercial bread have a 2-3 day shelf life here 😉.
That's how long a real bread should last for before going stale- and it absolutely should be going stale and not get moldy like that factory made crap.
I work i a plastic factory with extrusion. He talks about Azodicarbonamide. Its a propellant(hope thats the right word) we only work with masks with that additiv. Its explosiv under pressure and is used for car dashbords from expensive cars. If you touch them it feels soft. And for plasicwrap. If you want to you can google azodicarbonamid accidents. Whole factories were destroyed. But yeah...americans put that in their bread so when it reacts without much pressure it just looks soft and round and brighter/more white.
Quebec to the EU!!!
That is cool.
But you have Justin Trudeau as PM so good bread not worth living in such country.
You really have the best smile, gotta hand it to you. Great video! Must be the third of fourth time I've seen this bread video being reacted to, still really interesting and usually makes for good reactions :)
How do you only have 5.67k subs anyway? That's insane
Europeans usually don't measure distances as driving,
As everything is within walking/cycling distance,
Whether walking or cycling is default differs per area, but in France walking would be the default.
If they do measure driving distance, they'll specify "by car"
Because in most places public transportation is a viable alternative
And as such is a common measure of driving distance too.
I'm always impressed by French and other European bread culture. The little town I was in for a few months had three bakeries, two less than five minutes walk away. It's got to be close if you have to go out before you can have breakfast! Respect to the bakers who choose this way of life too. Driving back from a very long night's work, and at 4am the bakeries were already staffed and taking deliveries - a blaze of light and activity in an otherwise sleepy little place.
I'm a Dutchman living in a quite remote part of Greece and we mostly bake our own bread but the nearest village, population of about 2000, has five bakeries that sell locally baked bread.
Really good bread too but not vary great on variety.
What I've found is that the best place for bread in Europe is in Süd Tirol, the part of Tirol that's in north Italy, where you'll find this wonderful mix of French, Italian and Austrian bread culture.
The variety, even in the smallest bakeries is beyond the borders of belief.
Unfortunately Dutch supermarket bread has gone down the US route (please pronounce route in the English style)
I lived in a Canadian town of 3500 and that was not enough to keep a single bakery open for very long. Every couple of years a new one would try again and fail immediately. It sucked.
@@jamesgrover2005 According to what? There is still a great selection of different types of breads to choose from.
@@TheTekknician it's pre baked on mass with additives to prolong shelf life, check out the ingredients.
Common emulsifiers include:
Diacetyltartaric acid esters of monoglycerides (DATEM)
Calcium stearoyl lactylate
Monoglycerides and Diglycerides of fatty acids
Common dough conditioners include:
L-cysteine
Amylase
Ascorbic acid
Potassium bromate
It's highly processed and shit for you.
I have visited Rio de Janeiro several times with my first wife who was from Brazil, and it was my first experience with this kind of European bread culture. Breakfast every morning involved going down to the local bakery on the corner for fresh bread. We would have the bread with different cheeses, and meats. There's simply no comparison to what passes for bread in this country. American mass-produced bread is just devoid of all character. Also, there's really something to be said for crust that is chewy, flaky, caramelized... Just so good.
Verdade.
In Brazil we also have this culture of bread.
There are 70k bakeries spread across the country.
And the most consumed bread is similar to the French baguette, only in a small format (around 50g), based on water and not milk, its crust is crunchy and its crumb soft, it is called "French bread". In the city of São Paulo alone, 15M of these breads are consumed daily.
There are many brands of industrialized bread, but we usually buy it for an emergency or to do something specific.
if I use the rule of walking 5 minutes, leaving my house I can choose between 10 bakeries approximately.
Love that! My husband lived in Brazil for a couple of years and he says that sometimes he would walk to the bakery and just eat an entire loaf of bread for breakfast. 😂💜
French baguette is made of wheat, salt, water and fresh yeast, no milk. If you have milk in your recipe, it is then "une brioche", "un pain au lait" or "un pain brioché" depending on the recipe, and those are sugary "viennoiseries" (there are different variations for sure). "Pain viennois" is a type of bread but a little bit sugary, no milk user but water as in the bread. It is used for sandwiches etc it is too complicated to explain, you have to see and taste them 😅
oh come on, no need to lie like that. Of all the places I know, Brazil is probably one of the them that consumes less bread daily. In fact, there is no culture of accompanying meals with bread, they do it with white rice (very good by the way) No restaurant in Brazil places bread on the table when you go for lunch or dinner
@@victortepes1540 It isn't a lie. We don't eat bread like you wrote. We eat bread at breakfast and dinner in home. We don't have the culture of eat bread at restaurants before "meal", we eat bread in home or in bakeries. Edit.: And we eat rice with beans at lunch, our principal meal.
As a German that lived in the US for 12 years, he is truly spitting facts. I love going to the bakery every morning and getting myself some Brötchen and slapping some marmalade on it. It is something I have taken with me whenever I visit my friends in the US.
This little "society" clip at 5:33 is actually from another great video you should definitely put on your list. It's called "history of the entire world, i guess" and it's 20 minutes of exactly that, but fast paced with a lot of humor and creatively animated. Worth a watch. Or maybe several times^^
2 years ago at age 60 i made my first from scratch bread, flour water and yeast, experimentation with what seem like insignificant changes to the mix or the timing of all the stages from amalgamation of the 3 ingredients to the baking time or even the place in the oven where you choose to bake your bread will produce the bread you love, if you persevere. my bread is pale yellowy white inside , with a crust i love that i have made through experimentation, in warm places it will only last to the day after baking, preservation depends solely on the care and storage of your creation, and not on "for profit chemistry" great vid again Heidi. keep up the good work. and make some bread !
As someone who lives outside of the US in an ex- French colony (that has wholeheartedly adopted the fresh bread culture and has multiple bakeries per neighbourhood) this is so strange and fascinating to me. 'Long Lasting, soft, american style bread' is kind of a novelty item here. People try it out but they rarely adopt it. Seeing this, bakeries tried to adapt to the changing times and the western influence, and we now have bakery made sliced bread or hamburger bread, that just tastes a 1000x times better even if it doesn't last as long, or isn't as 'white'. After tasting Hamburgers made with those, regular fast food hamburgers taste so inferior!
I'm so thankful that I was raised by my grandmother because she made sure I could cook and bake, especially breads
French bread is definitely different and sooo good. I loved it when I was there. It makes me so glad my dad taught me how to make bread like his mom taught him.
A court in Ireland has ruled that Subway must name what they call bread cake, because of the high sugar content.
To give the amount of bakeries some context, I used to go skiing in Val Thorens, with an altitude of 2300 m (7545 ft) above sea level. So quite remote, it had 2 bakeries off the top of my head, probably more. At the start of the week you can go to the bakery, give your hotel name and room number and your order, as well as the time you’d want it delivered. and every morning they’d knock on your door (free wake up call) and hand you this order. We’d get 2 baguettes and 12 croissants every day for our breakfasts and lunch. Still warm from being baked, and at the end of the week you’d pay for it. Fresh bread hand delivered to you, I’d highly recommend visiting France if you get the chance.
Love your reactions and down-to-earth persona.. and that outro music was really a cherry on top!
Hello, first comment here from a french living in France, and I never realized that you, american friends, were eating this kind of bread on a daily basis.
We can buy breads akin to yours in supermarkets, but we rarely use them, except for student sandwiches or somethings like that.
When the original youtuber said about 5 min away from the boulangerie (bakery), it's WALKING time, we have them everywhere, I can chose between three of them in something like 3-5 minutes of walk, and a lot of them are pastry shops on top of that, so we can buy our bread AND some pastries with a great diversity.
14:44 "I smell some urban design policy changes".
Yes ! Paris as well as most french cities (and also european cities as a whole) are in the process of making their cities more bikeable.
It's actually a driving huge debates in Paris, especially online on Twitter. Since there many people for having the city more bikeable and walkable, but also some people who hate bikes for some weird reasons and are actively trying to slow down the process, and also some people who are feeling left out because they feel like they're "losing freedom" by not being able to drive their cars in more and more streets.
There are even content creators covering their bike commutes to document the evolution of the cities, and infrastructure problems that need to get addressed, etc.
Like for example, for Paris, "Altis play" is one more the most notable ones (it's in french though, but he does sometimes subtitles his videos in english, but it's rare).
Love your reactions. And uuhhh…. Start making your own bread. So many videos on how to simply make bread. For instance no-kneed bread. Just need bread flower, dried yeast, water and salt. A dutch oven comes in handy. It’s fun and delicious. You’ll know exactly what goes in. Don’t use it for yoga though.
Lol I actually thought about that after I finished recording. Like I might actually do it. 😂
You definitely should. It takes some practice, but basically it’s not difficult. I bake most of my bread, even though in the Netherlands there is plenty of good bread to be found. It’s just fun.
One advise: after baking let it cool down. Cut slices, put it in a plastic bag and freeze it over. That way you always have fresh bread. Just let some slices warm up and eat.
@@HailHeidi I'm also making my own bread, even though there are about 4 or 5 bakeries in a 5 minutes walking distance from my place :) it's just I'm too lazy to go out to buy bread every day ... I'm using a bread machine and it's really simple.
As a Dutch I’m not familiar with a Dutch oven, but I made my bread using a bread(baking)machine. Put all the three ingredients in a pot, select the program and time of finish the baking process and by that every day super fresh bread.
I recall seeing a documentary which had scenes from a French high-security prison. Each inmate got their meals delivered to their cell, rather than risk allowing them to congregate. With each meal, they got a fresh baguette. They were dangerous criminals, but they weren't fed muck. There's a whole literature on the dangers of feeding prisoners badly, as happens in the US and UK.
When industrialized bread was first introduced to my country, it was called "American toast" (it had the US flag and everything) and my mom would only let me have it on the weekends as a treat because of all the "mysterious chemicals" in it :D
The funny thing is, you could take it on a trip to France, take it all round France, through Germany , Belgium, into the UK up to Scotland into Ireland, ferry to Spain, Portugal, down to Gibraltar, maybe over to Morocco, a cruise around the med up to Scandinavia, back to the US - and it STILL wouldn’t be stale, it’s not made with food
The tradition of bread is spread all over Europe.
In Portugal, if you don't have fresh bread at the table during a meal is almost sacrilegious (We even have old sayings about it).
We also have bakeries everywhere and even the big supermarkets/Groceries will have a bakery inside making fresh bread everyday (several times a day/ different styles)
Same in Romania. Also we have an expression,we dont say,,i'm going to find a job'' but ,, i'm going to gain my bread''
When I lived in France, every day I'd get out of bed, walk down to the bakery, buy croissants and 2 baguettes, warm and fresh out of the oven and consume at least half of the baguette on the way home!!
That's the way it is supposed to be.
Yeah. That's also my problem with baguettes. I consume half of the baguette on the way home and I have to return to the bakery to buy another one...
The Spanish lunch time is around 2 hours. They don't rush.
I'm a South African who lives in Australia. I spent like3 months ion France and the bread and wine were cheap and amazing. I would live there in a heartbeat. Paris gives the rest of France a bad reputation. They are actually wonderful humble people. And those 3 months were some of the best of my life.
Measuring Countries by their Capitals is a bad metric anyway.
Take Brasilia for example.
It's a million city slapped right into the heart of a rain forest. If we would take this as the way too judge Brazil as a whole the result would be "clinically insane".
But obviously that's not the case.
Please come back when you want :)!
Merci et bienvenue en France ❤❤
I'm german and went to school in the 1980ies. At 10th form we go on a class trip and we always picked West-Berlin as destination because it's subsidised if we attend a tour and a lecture on the (full operating at these days) Berlin wall. These lectures were attended by many people. There was a US soldier taking part. At the end questions were possible. The US soldier said: "I always wondered why the Berlin Wall didn't get damaged during World War 2"
In my city I only need 2 minutes to walk to my bakery. I have a huge selection of breads and baked goods there. In Germany there are 45,000 bakery outlets and a bread museum. With around 3,200 registered types of bread, guild bakers have made it: The German bread culture was included in the nationwide list of intangible cultural heritage by the national UNESCO commission in 2014. And in general, the bread in Europe, whether in France, Italy, etc., is simply delicious. It is very sad to hear that there is little good bread in the US. I couldn't live without good bread.
I am in the UK, I once bought a large granary loaf in the local market and thick slices spread with farmhouse butter was the only thing I ate until it was gone.
The local Tescos bakes bread on the premises, the best before date, is the date it's baked and you buy it.
That comment she made about governments having an interest in public health, (or not having an interest) was definitely thought-provoking. It makes so much sense when explained like that!
it's so funny watching americans being amazed and explaining things that are just normal and common sense for us in France/Europe
Most American bread could not be classified as bread in Europe due to having too much sugar in. There was a legal case in Ireland a few years ago because Subway used their American recipe for their bread. Their “bread” was 10% sugar. The limit is 2%. The court case wasn’t really about naming, but tax. You don’t pay VAT (sales tax) on bread sandwiches.
And they pud literally hazardous substances in their food. Its unbelievable
@@somyle5470 we had Subway in Croatia. they started with one location in the center of Zagreb, then slowly expanded to 9 locations. in 2009 they closed all of their locations and left. they didn't do well here but they also didn't want to disclose why they left. in 2017 they came back with one store and in 2021 they announced that they were leaving again and they did close. at the time they fist came, we were still acustomed to people in the store making our sandwich or just buying a quarter of a bread (or half if you are a big guy) and ask them to cut it for us so we can make our own sandwiches from what we bought (when we work and have a break). now all the bakeries have sandwiches of all kinds. and they're much cheaper than subways sandwiches. I tried Subway sandwiches but there was nothing special here about them. I don't know anyone who ever talked about Subway or said anything positive about their sandwiches. it was usually "small and nothing special, but i had to try it". and that's probably what it was - everyone tried it, some tried it a few times, but it wasn't like it became a place where you go for a sandwich. even when it was the closest to us (at work), we just went to bakery or the store to get something to eat.
@@markojelenek7841 yes
10:16 for me a soft bread is not a real bread but a toast. A great bread comes with a great crust.
As a Brit, I always look forward to my my annual visit to France to see my sister. The bread is amazing there. By law they're only allowed to use 3 ingredients yeast, flour and salt. If you buy a baguette from a UK supermarket, the list of ingredients reads like an encyclopedia, it's full of "stabilisers" and "preservatives" etc. French bread is the best I've ever had.
as a Frenchie, it’s the one food I missed every time I traveled. Bread and cheese. it just doesn’t hit the same everywhere else for me
@@cr0wnoss We can get the cheese, the saucisson and the wine (all genuine French stuff), but without the bread it's pointless. The difference between your (French) bread and the bread us Brits get is like the difference between an own-brand frozen pizza from the supermarket compared to the best pizza from the best pizzeria using wood fired ovens, they're not even close to being the same thing.
Not sure where you are getting your bread from...the UK has plenty of fresh breads available..all supermarkets have an in-store bakery with a huge variety of bread made with natural ingredients..even sliced bread is only fresh for two days, we tend to freeze it and use a couple of slices at a time. All the additives used in America are banned here...we have very strict labelling laws so ingredient lists may seem long but it you read them you will find it is because every single component has to be listed, a French baguette may just say flour, where as ours will say wheat flour plus all the vitamins that can naturally be found in that flour, this goes for every ingredient. Don't get me wrong, French bread, and German and Italian, are delicious, but so is most of UK bread too. We pride ourselves on providing well regulated food...for instance, McDonald fries here have three ingredients, potatoes, salt and the oil they are cooked in..check out America's fries, it's mindboggling!
@@lynnhamps7052 Absolute nonsense. The French are only allowed to use 3 ingredients, yeast, flour and salt. You cannot compare french bread to UK bread, at all... I just took a photo of the ingredients to a simple white loaf I just happened to have in my kitchen, from probably the UK's most famous bread brand: Flour (with added calcium, niacin (B3) and iron), Thiamin (B1), water, yeast, salt, vegetable oil (oil?), sunflower oil, rapeseed oil, sustainable palm oil in varying proportions, soya flour, emulsifiers (E472e, E481: preservative: calcium propionate, flour treatment agent: ascorbic acid). Even local bakeries add stuff to their bread. The next time you're in a major supermarket, pick up a baguette from the "bakery" (all the dough arrives in tubs from the factory, and all they do is put it in the oven), turn it over and look at the list of ingredients, there's at least 20. in France, there's just 3. Flour, yeast and salt. *EDIT: spelling.
@@lynnhamps7052 Okay, sounds good what you say about the ingredients. But I can't remember getting any tasty bread when visiting the UK.
First time seeing your video... congrats, you`ve got the x-factor, Heidi... have a nice flight! :)
In Europe, we talk in minutes of walking.
I live in a tiny town in Denmark, with about 4000 inhabitants, and we have two different bakeries, one is about 5-6 min walk away from where I live and the other is maybe 13-15 min walk away
Subway had to legally call their bread "cake" in Ireland because there was so much sugar in it.
False. That is an Internet myth.
@Mark Hamstra its true. I live in Ireland. The Supreme Court ruled their bread contained 5 times the weight of sugar to flour allowed to be legally called bread in Ireland. It was therefore deemed "confectionery" for tax purposes.
@@Shenanigan5 It’s false. There are many kinds of bread in the world. Two of the fundamental categories of bread are those made from lean doughs and those made from enriched doughs. Lean doughs contain just flour, water, yeast and salt. Enriched doughs contain additions of various fats, sugars, dairy and eggs. For example, brioche dough is enriched mostly with butter, challah is enriched mostly with eggs, and Brötchen is enriched mostly with milk. Subway’s bread is an enriched dough bread. Ireland’s tax law treats lean breads and breads with very little enrichment differently from other breads, deeming them a staple commodity that is not subject to the VAT. Subway wanted their bread to be treated as a staple for tax purposes, but were denied by the court. That means that Subway’s bread is subject to the VAT, just like many other varieties of enriched dough breads that are deemed not to be staples for tax purposes is Ireland. That doesn’t mean that these enriched breads cannot be called, sold or advertised as bread in Ireland or that the Irish courts have said that any of these enriched breads are legally “cake” or “confectionery” - that’s all a persistent myth originating from bad reporting and the Internet echo chamber, not from Irish tax law and court rulings.
Got a sub! I am so eagerer to see your journey!
Here in the UK one good trend is that more and more supermarkets have their own on site bakeries. It is not as good as real bakers but much better than the big brand name breads (Hovis, Mothers Pride, Warburton etc).
I have a question tho, why do you use the chemical bread instead of real bread for sandwiches? Because when I was in the UK and in Ireland there were a lot of those sandwiches, while I was used to seeing sandwiches made with normal bread (i kinda assumed real bread wasn't that much available in countries speaking English because of perhaps availability of ingredients)
@@irenecarrillo6750 I dunno man but the softness just hits different, also since its mechanical sliced it more consistent? And that's ignoring that sometimes you just want a sandwich at ome and constantly spoiling true bread is inconvenient for that
@@lostgem8225 oh ok, thank you for the explanation
15:00 I used to work at Panera and I’m not a fan of this take. Sure a lot of the processes and ingredients have been implemented to speed up the sandwich making, and they freeze meat, sauces, soups, and things like that, but the one thing that is still authentic is the bread, bagels, and pastries.
There is a baker that goes into every Panera, every night at like 6 or 7 pm and they bake bread and pastries all night until 5 or 6 am. There is always at least one person in a Panera bread. The bread dough is refrigerated, it’s never frozen, and it’s actually fresh every morning. That goes for ALL the bread in the store. Including all of the sandwich bread. The person who runs the upfront bakery at 6am is cutting bread all morning, every morning.
It blows my mind that normal bakery is a "luxury" and "fancy" in murica.. wtf I literally have 2 bakeries 15 min walk apart and no one, literally no one thinks it's something special, it's the most normal thing to do - buy bread products from bakery. Even supermarkets have bakeries inside them and in Lidl it's all behind glass wall so you can even watch how they do it.
I know what you mean I can reach 2 bakeries in under 5 minutes walking.
@@Vandar821 There is like one bakery per block in my area. I'd even say there are too many, but there are even more hair saloons, so what do I know.
i have 5 in a Radius of 800m. 6 when you call the bread storage in ALDI.
There are even laws against small businesses (like bakeries would be) operating in suburbs as that would appearently devalue the houses in the immediate area in some states.
American City Planners:
Walking to Discount Stores and small businesses for more specific needs every other day? Nah.
Driving to a Superstore once or twice in a week? Hell yeah!
I like this trend you're on. It's stuff I would watch anyway, and now I get to hear your opinion along with it. For some reason, I also tend to hang out with people with a Mormon upbringing, Could have something to do with living near Hill Cumorah, but I think we have similar values/practices despite never being Mormon, myself. I like watching both Johnny Harris and Sam Harris. Used to work at Harris. Behind around a lot of Harris, too. Anyway, got plenty more of your videos to catch up on yet. Keep it up. Looks good.
i love the disgusted face you made when you noticed that bacteria is eating when you think its rising. Yes, love - that is what happens. all the time, everywhere - and you eat them. they are everywhere. its science. learn to love it, or you going to have to keep that face forever, as bacteria is everywhere.
How does she think Beer or any alcohol beverages are made ?
@@olivierdk2 Yeast. Those are fungi, not bacteria. Same is true for many kinds of bread. There are however some kinds of bread that uses lactic acid bacteria.
Another great video! By the way, you did not have to mention that you find the described ripening process of the dough unappetizing - we all could see it in your face ... Both times ;-) Do a picture search for "German bread culture". BUT: Please prepare one of your absolute favorite snacks beforehand - because you will need it immediately when you see the pictures!
The whole food in the US is kind of "strange" ... Just take some easy (French) Fries at MCD! In the EU it has 3 ingriedents only: potatoe, oil, salt! That's it! In the US it's like 27 ingridients!? o_O
I am Dutch and i bake my own bread, i buy flour at the local windmil grinded by grindstones, it is real delicious.
If there is no bakery in your area, you can simply make bread yourself. It's not rocket science, and you know exactly what is in it. Plus it really taste great when it is still warm from the oven. You can also use a small bread making machine.
Btw I have 2 bakeries within 5 minutes walking distance, and further 2 bakeries within 10 minutes walking distance (Germany, in a town with ~23,000 inhabitants)
This.
I have 5 near me in Belgium and I live in a city of approx 10k. It's amazing. Didn't really know this wasn't the norm in the US tbh.
The problem she might have is finding flour that hasn't been tainted with preservatives or that isn't made from GM plants, regardless of the type of flour.
@@module79l28 GM is irrelevant. Preservatives and bleached flour, yes.
@@jwenting - I wouldn't say GM is irrelevant but between that and non-GM flour, I'd rather choose the latter.
Seems few of your videos, ordered a bread book ‘Richard Hart Bread’(he got a bakery in my town(Copenhagen, Denmark), so I know his bread and bakery is among the best and I cannot wait to see what I’ll learn about breadbaking and hopefully bake some of the best at home.
Here in Finland many larger stores have their own bakery, for a variety of fresh breads every day. Other stores bring in fresh bread from various bakeries, and you don't really get the sort of industrial white mush that dominates the US bread market (and the Canadian one too, it seems - I was an exchange student in Canada and after a year of eating that mush, when I got back, I ate almost nothing but different kinds of rye bread for a month. 😄)
Here we use a lot of rye too - really all the cereals - in making bread. We eat A LOT of rye bread, and there's so much variety even just in rye breads. On top of that, you get everything else.
Siis onhan Suomessa aikalailla näitä valmiiksi leikattuja "leipiä", jotka ovat melkoisen eri tuote kuin perinteinen leipä, jossa on noin kolme ainesosaa. Tavallinen leipä kuivuu nopeasti, jos sen viipaloi. Siksi viipaloidut leivät sisältävät mm. (rapsi)öljyä. Ruis taas kuten mainitsit on Suomen ylpeys ja omaperäisyytemme. Hattu kouraan ja kaikki kunnia ruisleivälle!
@@Xopeto1 Juu, on - mutta suomessa myytävä viipaloitu valkea leipä on hyvin kaukana Amerikassa myytävästä "leivästä". Mitään edes lähellä samanlaista en ole Suomesta - onneksi - löytänyt.
We have so many breads that use other flours than just wheat here. Oat, barley and rye are the most used ones besides the wheat.
Most breads contain at least some wheat flours except the 100% rye breads which only contain rye flours, salt, water and yeast if the rye bread is not a sourdough bread.
We also use other incredients like my favorite one, which is rye potato bread. It contains mainly rye, potato, malts, salt and water.
There just is no better bread in my mind to eat with a soup (Preferably salmon soup).
This video has encouraged me to make my own bread 🥖 from now on. Great reaction video!
Me too. 😂💜
you get even more different bread in Germany... we also have Baguettes ;D we have 300+ different kinds of bread. Come to Germany and visit each Country which bordered to Germany... that is culture experience.
I wonder if I'm the only one a little annoyed by all the "bread is french" thing.
@@germangarcia6118 You're certainly not! Although I do like French bread and bakeries in France quite a lot.
But the baguettes that are made here in Germany are not as good as in France.
@@magmalin There are definitely some super-excellent-extraordinaire bakeries in France, but it's not like they invented bread nor are the only country with a bread culture. It's not even a thing exclusive to Europe. Damn, now I want bread. Gonna go down for some.
Sorry there are over 3000! different kinds of Bread in Germany. Just saying
I'm Brazilian and, contrary to what some other commenters have said, we do consume a lot of bread, at least twice a day, for breakfast and for an afternoon snack. That's when we choose to replace lunch or dinner with a meal with bread. Now, March 29, 2023, 20:21 pm, I just had coffee with bread, cheese and a delicious homemade biscuit. 😋
Hi Heidi, if you really want to learn something about bread? Forget the French bread look in Germany for 3200 different varieties. It's bread paradise.
🤣🤣 french bread is far better, there is nothing to compare... don't be jealous idiot 🤣👊🇫🇷
There's an entire Johnny Harris rabbit hole if you're willing to go down it. He's very good at what he does.
If you want to go to France to try bread, wait until you discover German, Polish or Czech bread lol
No need to wait the French one is incredible.
It is nothing easier than bake your own bread.. it takes about 15 hours with 3 of your interventions and taste and feeling afterward is priceless
Depends heavily on the type of bread you make too, my mother has a entire recipe book for just a bunch of different breads. Starts making them early in the morning and they're done for lunch or dinner. There is nothing better then that fresh bread smell.
Fresh bread is just so much more superior to the machine stuff, and am very lucky to live somewhere where its easy to buy and/or to make yourself.
In France, you go to the baker to get fresh, delicious bread. Then you go next door to the butcher and get sausage and ham, if you like cheese go go get that (I am not a cheese person), and you can supplement with some fresh fruit or vegetable, and you end up with a fresh, delicious, healthy and nutricious meal. A group of friends and I lived that way for a tenday in Normandy some years ago.
7:15 haha 😄 😆 🤣 here in Germany you are like 2 minutes away. I have to walked down the street 300meters and I have 3 bakeries and another 400meters there are 3 more 🤣
08:00 Yes, it is correct that there have been studies which confirmed that it's better to eat sitting down, but in certain particular conditions it can help to stand. What really helps every time it's what you choose to eat, to eat slowly and stay hydrated.
Walking is faster than taking the car in Paris 💀
Im norwegian and in my area the supermarkets gets their bread from local bakeries daily, some stores get deliveries twice a day, so its really fresh (but becomes stale in 2-3 days). We also have some variants of pre sliced bread that has a couple of weeks shelf life, but those are pretty rare and I dont see people buying them much at all as the taste and freshness is just far inferior.
One smallvcaveat: France is really good at making baguettes. If you want a great variety of great breads you should look at Germany that has registered thousands of different delicious types of bread. And we in Austria have quite a few of our own.
What Americans call btead is called Toast here because almost no one would eat it without being toasted first...
Well, in Italy we've got 250 different kind of bread. 250!!!!
Come to Germany! 3000+ different kind of bread! 😜
One of the biggest differences between walking whilst eating vs sitting down is that you're focused on walking/getting to your next destination/getting shiz done vs focused on having a meal.
Generally speaking you eat far faster and consume more whilst doing something else than when you're focused on just having a meal, so you don't give your body time to say 'hey, i'm full, time to stop'... I'm sure there are many many other factors to this, that's just one of 'em.
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5 minutes walking :D
You can easily find any street with 3 bakeries minimum in Paris (PS: Yes , i'm from France, love your reactions videos)
I had to laugh so hard when dude mentioned everyone lives 5 minutes away from a bakery and u asked if that’s driving distance that’s so American I love it ❤
I live in a small town of 3,000 people and many more cows. There are two bakeries in the city center (there used to be 3 but the owner of the third died). They are 3 minutes walk from each other. When one closes the other remains open. That way we always have bread. Except that since I live literally opposite the first bakery and therefore take a few seconds to get bread (the time to cross the one-way road), the three minutes of walking necessary to get to the other seems much longer.
The closest bakery is 10 secondes from the entrance of my building. Going to a bakery seems so ordinary for us.
Yes, there is also industrial bread, but, why buying it ? There are three bakeries in my village !
I believe there are about 3.000 bakeries here in the Netherlands as well... and the US is over 200 times bigger with almost 20 times the amount of citizens that we have. And we're not even that fond of bread in itself.
Btw, we do also have quite a few factories that make dough, but a lot of it is frozen and gets transported to the supermarket before the bread is baked. So it still tastes really good. Bakeries only provide like a quarter of the bread we consume.
Here in Norway we get fresh bread delivered to our door every monring, bread that just came out of the baker's oven.
So good!
We also mostly use multigrain bread, much healthier than white bread.
13:45 Yes in Sweden we have a concept called friskvård. litterally health care but we call carning for someone who's sick sjukvård sick care. Friskvård is doing things to keep healthy people healthy.
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Happy holidays to you and yours. Peace everyone.
In Stuttgart, Germany, I live about 5 to 10 minutes walking distance from nearly every relevant shopping facility, including several supermarkets, restaurants and - bakeries. I have lived in places where shops and bakeries were more than 30 minutes by foot away, but even then, I easily could bike there within 10 to 15 minutes.
In Galicia, northwestern Spain, after a time of supermarket-bought bread, we are returning to traditional bakeries that make bread with wood-fired ovens. Bread is for us an essential companion to any meal, bad bread spoils a good dish. Fortunately, all the essentials for my life, post office, pharmacy, bar, grocery stores ... are less than 15 minutes walk away, we never count the distance by car time
Honestly I learned to make bread maybe 10 yrs ago - first 7 attempts were failures until I figured out my mistakes and honestly its soo easy takes 10 min then prooving (and clean up haha) 20 min in the oven, the house smells amazing, its not expensive and really therapeutic. Ill do and half the time just give it to a neighbour, just like making it - taking a bowl of flour yeast and water into something great