Why The French Eat 30 Million Baguettes A Day - Traditional French Baguette | Food Secrets Ep. 12
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2021
- A total of 30 million baguettes are eaten in France each day. At least that is what the French claim. There, only bakeries that bake fresh bread every day are allowed to call themselves a “Boulangerie”, which might explain the high quality of baguettes throughout the country. What’s more, the French bread law specifies set rules for baking baguette: The only ingredients allowed are flour, salt, water and yeast. According to law, a baguette must also weigh between 250-300 grams and have a length of 55-65 centimeters. It needs to be soft on the inside, and crispy on the outside. In this episode of Food Secrets, we let you in on what makes France’s most famous bread so special, where it originated from, and what cultural significance it has to the French.
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all French jokes aside, if you never had baguette bread with a soup/pasta, warm saucy dish (for example meat with gravy) or simply soft warm baguette with butter, you simply cant understand why baguette is so good
Just reading your comment makes my mouth water 💦
@@schane9255 try it, its actually very yummy ^-^
agreed with that and for me italian bread or even american italian bread is good for the mopine
The French know how to enjoy life without unnecessary complications.
True.
As a french guy . the best part is when they just come out from the oven and they are still warm.. oh my god , so delecious
With lashings of pure creamy butter
La vérité!
I am very particular about my baguette, must be my French Vietnamese side.
Ohhh yessssssssss so good
bravo
I know I'm late to the party here, but I want to express appreciation to the sound engineer who perfectly preserved the sound of that bread.
I have never wanted a baguette more in my life than now....
@Miles you repent first. For now I am here for the baguettes
Come any time in France you're welcome!
Appreciate our food, culture and life style you'll never forget your trip!
@@Dadadu16 believe me i did not forget my trip to France and i am sure i will visit again and remember it all my life
J'adore la France et son peuple
@Mileswhat a dork
@@choulebanon8120 😂😂
Man, having a 12-year sourdough starter is quite the flex.
May it serve for many more years and birth many more baguettes.
Best comment.. Flex indeed. What a god
Yes, you have to keep nurturing it like a pet and it will be the gift that keeps on giving.
@Miles lets keep the word of god inside church doors and off of youtube = )
@Miles Doyle Nobody asked, Miles.
@Miles Doyle can't believe god made you so weird
I once ate an entire baguette from this really good French bakery whilst driving home and I’ll never forget being at a red light and both people next to me staring at me like “look at this weirdo eating a loaf of bread” let’s just say they fricken good
Hah. I've done that. Started off as an innocent nibble but ended up just eating the whole thing in the car.
@Miles bro stop preaching like it's the 17th century
@@lgay1927 Oh no, if it were 17th century preaching, there would be many more "thee"s and "thou"s --Charles Wesley Style! We Need to get some Anglicans in here! STAT!
@@Elurin Teen girls were hung for adultery back then, per the bible. The married guy was left alone as he had suffered enough with the whole village knowing he had been seduced by the young vixen and her wiley ways.
@@dleet86 I don't know what country you're from but in Canada and the USA, No One was hung for Adultery! In OT days getting stoned was the penalty for both man and woman.
I have travelled through France two times now. If it was possible I would personally eat 30 million French baguettes a day.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Germans are often proud of their bread varieties, but I’ve never ever had one here that could beat the taste of a baguette freshly made in France.
yeah baguettes are a very unique kind of bread!
As a German I agree. Our bread is awesome, especially regarding all the varieties, but France stole my heart with Baguettes.
Germans shouldn't be pride of their terrible food anyway
@@RenVicious69 Proud to steal a german heart... Not easy to steal also... A french baguette did ! Imagine what a glass of Burgundy wine can do .... ;o)
German Bread culture is almost dead. Cheers from Germany to our friends from France. I love Frankreich so much ❤️ vive la France!!!
The miller dude sounds so proud of his job and his heritage.
@Miles are you high?
he's also quite easy on the eyes ;)
Indeed, he should be! He's descended from a noble line!
And so he should. I'd rather do his job any day than sat sitting in an office in front of a computer all day
You'll find that mentality in nearly every skilled food-related job in France. I remember driving through Normandy and stopping at a small cider farm with my family when I was younger, you could tell the guy who ran the place was just so passionate and he knew it was where he was meant to be. I envy it
Not only for breakfast, they also are fantastic as sandwich base. Forget fast foods and try finding an artisanal bakery doing its own sandwiches.
Find a good baker, sure, but just make your own sandwiches.
a real bakery doesn’t do sandwich’s or patisserie
We have a fast food chzin specialised in baguette sandwich called "Paul"
@@vinche122 they do
@@woutervanr you can with a great baguette!
Ratatouille :
How do you tell how good bread is without tasting it?
Not the smell, not the look, but the sound of the crust.
Symphony of crackle.
To be the president of the French Bakers' and Pastry Chef's Guild sounds like a fantastic job
God bless them for preserving such bakery treasures. 🙇♂️
I guess you have never heard about Silla the Sicilian, the President of the Guild of Prostitutes.
@Miles say, what?!
A dream job!
The word "copain" meaning friend comes from the term "couper le pain", an act of friendship.
copain ... compagnon, compagnie, ... from latin "com-panis" wich is more about "sharing the same bread". But it's nearly the same "human" meaning ;-)
I love everything about this video, the filming, the music, the narration, the bread and the baker. Truly excellent work!!
I agree... and with real secrets to anyone who has actually tried to bake a baguette but never could seem to get it quite right... Mine always seemed very skinny going into the oven but the professional bakers were about as skinny as mine... but I certainly don't get that oven rise...
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The annual french baguette consumption is a distance of 9 times to the moon and back! Incredible!
I agree, it’s almost a cinema like presentation
I wish they would someday drop the accordion. Noone listens to accordion in France. It gets on my nerves so bad.
When the baker brings them out, fresh from the oven. You can hear the crackings of the baguettes. It's magical. I used to wait in front of my baker's shop fr that special moment...
French can be proud of their products and traditions in all senses. That’s the way to maintain people and country in harmony with their own personality and a touch of class even for humble products like the baguette. As Spaniard I admire the way they resist against fast-waste food whilst other countries are loosing personality and even healthy traditional food.
When staying as guests at our friend’s in Le Pouliguen, I love to go in the morning to the village’s bakery to buy a couple of rustic baguettes and saying Bonjour….., they are so kind and polite, they sell bread and pastries but they make me feel like into a jewellery!!
French baguette, open, squeeze a tomato, some drops of good olive oil (aove) and some slices of Spanish ham……. What else? yes, a glass of red wine.
Your receipe here is "Pa amb tomaquet" as used to say my Catalan grand-mother. The best brunch you could imagine.
What are you talking about? Hamburger is the most popular food in Paris.
@@franckr6159 Pa amb tomàquet i pernil (and ham).
Pa amb tomàquet, is just bread with tomato amb it can accept many combinations: as a sandwich with anchovies, or butifarra (sausage) or omelette, or tuna, etc …..
If served just as pa amb tomaquet, usually sliced, it is used to accompany other meals, as per example torrades (bbq) of meat and or sausages or our lovely and funny calçotada (have a search). Often, in Catalan restaurants it is served sliced, just the bread slightly roasted, aside tomatoes + olive oil in order the client can organise himself. Some, as me, we use to rub a garlic clove over the bread slice and thereafter to rub the tomato and finish with some drops of olive oil. Just like that, with some good olives and a glass of wine is a perfect aperitif.
@@watwat7050
You are so ignorant
We are proud of our food and drinks ❤🇨🇵
Bread and butter...nothing else matters.
Wine?
@@anonUK Maybe company too.
Bacon, brown sauce
Olive oil is better than butter on a toast.
@@DavidGonzalez-ff6yk butter is important too in French gastronomy
Watching from Guyana 🇬🇾, South America... this is the first time I'm seeing something like this and I have to say I m in love with the Baguettes. Love this to the core. DW Foods keep it up.
Went to Paris two years ago, and we had a baguette ham sandwich. Delicious!! Simple and soooo delicious! Had one everyday.
Sounds great!
I've been in quite a few former French colonies. In each and everyone of them you can find a good baguette, decent coffee, and magnificent croissants.
List them colonies...is quebec one of them?
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@@dannyk847 Évidemment les Québécois des Français immigrés
@@pn2124 why???
07:58 The best part - that lovely sound!
Because if they didn't France would just stop. Salted butter and fresh baguette is heaven
Actually we eat unsalted butter
@@jmlepunk No.
@@jmlepunk dépend où tu te trouve.
Salted butter... in Britanny and Normandy only.
@@jmlepunk Anch'io!
9:15 The way he describes buying a baguette is so romantic.
The tastiest part of the bread is the crust. And geometrically the baguette has the largest outer surface area of any bread.
And if it's crisp, fresh out of the oven... And if the oven's a good oven...
Damn, I wish we could get those in the U.S.A. They use all kinds of crap, GMO's, fillers, etc. here, because they care more about making money than a decent product. It's sad.
You can get very close to the traditional baguettes from Paris in a few bakeries in the US. For instance, I get mine from a bakery ran by french in Bethesda, MD
Just bake it yourself tf i wish?? Lol
USA make more bombs than bread
@@zakuma22 What's the name of the bakery? I'll be in DC this Sept and want to try it.
@Ricardo Martinez - help this person find their baguette 😅 🥖
The more I watch these the more I wanna to back to Europe. I live in Canada, it's an amazing country but my heart... my heart is in Europe. Also top notch stuff from DW food, love the content!
Thank you 🥰
If u want to live good, go for rural France, especially in the western part people won’t bother you and it will be a calm life but if you want something more of the epicurean lifestyle go for the south and live with the flow of it.
@@GolgothFranc You read my mind I'm pretty set on going to south of france/northern spain when I retire. I already speak french and I'm gonna start learning spanish. i'm excited (my wife not so much lol)
Me too. I moved to Vancouver from the UK in 1975. Love it, but prefer the culture in France. I could not move there as I have a son and grandsons in Seattle (3 hrs away) and I do not speak French. Too old to learn as I do not remember much, but do not have dementia. My other son would ask “ why I did not move to Spain” as he lives there. Plus I would miss my friends.
@@chriswilliams6568Votre autre fils n'a pas tout à fait tort.
When I went to marseille everyone with plastic bags full of shopping had baguettes sticking out of them. I thought damn the French do live up to their stereotypes😂
And we love to ^^ Take care of you! ;)
I surrender
8:26 this guy is a very professional look at the description, how it was made, what they used to make and the speed of kneaded, I am very impressive, very good vid Thank you!
Nothing beats, fresh and warm foods that made with passion, no matter what food it is.
I had the best bagguette in a cheap hotel in Paris, just butter and jam, dipped in a cup of coffee.Not doughy in side.Its been 20 over years but I still remember its wonderful taste.
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@@y-sdahms212🤮 toi même
@@Lostouille 😘
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I wish I did'nt get fat and still could eat baguette :( now it's forbiden for me , it's like reaping a part of myself. Now i'm going to cry.
Bravo à ces gens qui perpétuent la tradition de confectionner une bonne baguette. Les industriels ont tué la boulangerie et la pâtisserie.
Oh I truly enjoyed watching this! I’ve been baking with sourdough for over 30 years, and I still consider myself a novice when I watch masters of dough performing their craft ! Lovely
I always buy 2 baguettes everyday. One to eat it on my way back home, the other one for lunch and dinner. But it's often not enough
Eating baguette is just like celebrating a special occasion for me 😂
I am Indian and I was in France for 4 years. I was buying baguette everyday from supermarket initially but then switched to local bakery. It was a memorable taste every time, be it morning with butter and jam or during lunch or dinner with any curry.
I miss this now as I moved back to India. Indian bread at bakery is a joke.
What great video, DW! Absolutely charming. Thank you.
Bread. Breton Butter. That's it. That's the meal.
This reminded me of a bakery that used to be where I was raised. I had to go buy the bread there, there were long queues everytime, and the smell was awesome, getting it still hot was something else. Every single person was eating pieces of it before arriving home.
Love this story!
Great photography and story-telling, DWTV!
I love how they treat it like how Japanese do. Simple basics, but the mastery is what makes it.
@Sweet Rebel I know. Are you saying there's a correlation in strife towards perfection an age? Because if I recall it's mostly diet and family, but I haven't kept up with the research.
@Sweet Rebel I get where yer coming from. I mean EU and Japan are overall insanely much more inclined to eat "good" food rather than shit food. It's why americans are so fat, or even why poor countries are fat because it's cheaper to eat shit food than good food. White rice, cornsyrup, whitesugar, it's all being force-exported by the US and China to every country which rarely can compete in prices. It's sad.
I was born Leo Brian Lalonde
My heart always says yes to the French Language, Food, and music !
When I was a foreign exchange student back in HS, I got the opportunity to stay with a French family for a month during the summer. Had an absolutely horrendous time, the French weren't very welcoming in the 90's imo, but their bread was out of this world. I ate my feelings in bread while I was there, even remember buying 3 baguettes for the plane ride home which even that was hellish (plane troubles) so the bread never made it out of the country. I may have bad memories of the family and people I encountered from France but boy will I always have a love affair with French bread!
Why were they mean to you ?
@@popicelolly - I was put in the only room with a lock on the outside of the door so whenever they didn’t want me walking around, they’d lock me in. Then whenever we’d go into town to run an errand, I was introduced as “the American”. The nicest people in that whole family was the father and his granddaughter who was four. I remember calling home every night in tears. I couldn’t understand why they hated me so much but found out if wasn’t me specifically, it was because I was American. Worst part is, my family had to host their daughter in Ca for a month afterwards…now that was fun 🙄.
@@stiixgirl6148 yikes. I’m so sorry you had to go through that
@@stiixgirl6148 i'm sorry you encountered such assholes, i cannot word it otherwise. You were in an abusive family.
@@kombooch It was definitely a memorable experience, lol. It won't keep me from going back to France though, the country truly is beautiful. Time heals all wounds, this happened back in '94, almost 20 years ago.
The sound of the baguette is really important!
Great video and its the best bread I've eaten anywhere in the globe, always look forward to visiting French bakeries on our travels.
Simple, and my all time most favorite food. Nothing is better than a fresh baguette with some butter.
Absolutely!
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When i guide people in Bali and Lombok, my guest always give me a baguette bread 😀👍🏻 so delicious 😀👍🏻 hope someday i can visit France 🇫🇷
I loved every part of this documentary, especially the love for the baguettes ❤
Enjoying watching, thanks
Seems like every country has a carby comforting food that everyone craves periodically
I keep telling people - if your baguettes is full of dough and NOT an open structure it just isn't a baguette. These ones look AMAZING!
Great Work DW as always. ❤
I Love Baguettes it’s one of my Favorite Breads in the Entire World. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
You can have my baguette 🥖
In France, bread is a daily buy. Some places a basket is hung at the home's gatepost for the early delivery. Many's the time I've seen a cyclist on his way home from the village with a newspaper under one arm and couple of baguettes under the other. Baguettes are meant to be eaten the day they are baked. They don't have all the chemical preservatives and enhancers that for example American so-called "French bread baguettes" have (even the flour is different) - such adulterants are not permitted in France. You get the pure and simple bread and the taste simply does not compare. It's good the next day toasted, made into bread salad etc, but day old baguette is too dry to eat plain. Memories of Verdun.
Thanks for conjuring that quintessentially French image😊
A bowl of Tomato Basil Soup with a Baguette- Heaven!
I can feel soft, airy inside and crust outside. When bite first crisp and softness while chewing. Wow! I am definately going to make it.
Wonderful crumb structure! Masterpiece!
I'm French and for me it's more one baguette per day ;)
Vive les baguettes françaises les gars 🇨🇵
The background music is so french i cant get over it 😂
Do you happen to know the name of the tune? I am a musician and would love to play it. John
It's called Return to Paris (Trio) by Gianluca Casadei & Simone Satta :) do let us know if you record your rendition!
Wish I was in France right now ! Great video !
The baguettes all look so lovely! If I was there, I would eat all of them!
used to work few shops from a Vietnamese baker who makes nice baguette. Fresh off the oven, crusty outside and soft inside. Slice them, cream cheese and smoke salmon. Or cut it into hot dog lengthen and add cheese and ham. But got to eat up for the day as it turns hard the next day.
Always enjoy content of masters creating their works of art.
Fresh, warm baguette with butter. That's happiness. Simple joy right there.
I love the French! Fullstop. ♥️
We are the best in the business
Merci beaucoup pour cette délicate attention au nom de tous les Français.
Didier, Charente-maritime, La Rochelle, France 😊👍
Norwegians do have this "matpakke" tradition but its never taken out to the public like in France. Its something you eat at breakfast, lunch etc. I envy the French for their baguette tradition.
Great Video, love French baguettes
amazing!!! I'm in love!!
So common to have it in here we tend to forget it's not available that easy outside france. 🙃
I wish everyone on earth would have tasted at least once. 🥖👍
Of course being French you think no one else in the world can make a good baguette. Look up the Coup de Monde bread competition and see how many times in the last 25 years the French have lost. You obviously don’t know what you’re talking about.
it was one of our baker who invented that competition and 3 of the 4 exercize is about making french bread / pastries etc...
This competition is made to spread the joy of making bread like us .
you can find good baguettes everywhere in france , so even if some good bakers are from abroad , they are an exception in their country so not the whole population will be able to try them. @@FYMASMD
@@FYMASMD level of agression , through the roof. Are you jealous of the french or something?
Just moved to Paris for 6 months and YES I started to identify good baguettes from the bad (still very good) one :D
Amazing 👏
It looks awesome I would like to eat , the explanation was awesome want to grab one
I live in Athens. Though we have village style bread or some other kinds... baquette was also for me since child the best type of bread ever!! Not fat crunchy smell good so super for a sandwich... if i want to make next day meatballs ill take a fat one...
still remember the day we spend a few days outside Paris when being a boy, 1982, and tasted the best bread ever. A Baguette. Thanks France!
I enjoy watching this.
I love French and their baguettes.
I don't know why, but somehow this video reminded me of my childhood when I spent the weekends watching Disney movies!
During the school year at lunch time students are allowed to walk around in the city, where I live in Europe (Belgium) there's barely any car in the city center in the middle of the day and everybody walks.
And every other day for lunch with a friend I go to a nice charcuterie and order a fresh baguette with butter, cheese, ham, salad, slices of tomato and of course mayonnaise. And it tastes so good. ^^
It's either that or I eat at a nice take-away italian pasta restaurant.
I think the schools allows that so that we participate in the city-center's life and economy, and it's such a great idea in my opinion.
Of course we have to come back to school after an hour when it's the end of lunch time, but the city-center isn't that big so it's not a problem.
You guys have good fries too.
I ate cheap instant ramen in my school year. Cant relate. Sorry 😀
@@calyco2381 If you're in the U.S I agree it probably really suck, the more I watch the youtube channel "Not Just Bikes" the more the U.S feels like some kind of dystopian nightmare. :/
I couldn't hold the tears back in the end!
Fabulous art...
This documentary made me very hungry for French baguettes. Now I'm going to drive 15 minutes to the nearest French Bakery just to get a baguette.
You have a French bakery 15 minutes away? Someone is leaving the dream. My bakery is 5000 miles away :(
@@asterixky Aww sorry to hear that, 2 hours is a lot to get to a good baguette! I live in the city (Auckland) of a very small country (NZ) where you can generally go to most places in about 5-10 mins so 15mins to get proper fresh French baguettes is considered a "a bit of a drive" and I sometimes forget the rest of the world is much bigger!
Let us know how it was!
@@DWFood It was delicious! I sat on my bed and finished watching the rest of this video while munching on my fresh baguette with butter lol 😍🤣
Impulsive
Beautiful
Wow!
This is one of my favorite when Im working in the ship, like a desert for me after lunch, just margarine or butter and sprinkle of sugar THATS IT!
THANKS!
I've been eating Banh Mi recently and I just love that crisp on the crust.
I love baguettes, but I've never figured out how to eat the crusts without scraping the ceiling of my mouth. A really good baguette is worth the soreness afterwards, I suppose.
Yes Jenny, ur right my 1st trip to Paris I ate a fresh baguette sandwich every day for 10 days. Buttered with small slice of ham and cheese.
Tore up the roof of my mouth but I did it every day and it was worth it.
tern it upside down! then you will only scrap your tongue :-)
@@johnjones9693 lol doesn't sound like a good solution either
I've never had this problem and I don't think the French do either (of course not).
Eat smaller pieces and chew more maybe?
@@kennielsen3896 It is the food of the poor in reality. A tradition. Probably most French don't really use it they just take it home as an accessory. Lol.
Growing up in Mexico, we ate bolillos. It looks like a baby baguette. My dad used to refused to eat big store made bolillos.
Thank you for sharing your passion 😊
Love bolillos….like u said they’re like baguettes.😊😊
Look amazing 🤩
Great video. Just one request: can we drop the accordion music trope as mandatory on all videos relating to France? No one has played such music since WWII in France.
Hay me Encanta!! Como la comida Francesa!! Una de mis Favoritas!! Definitivamente!!💁🏼♀️👍🏻✌🏻🧚🕊🧚🏼♀️💚🧡😊😊
It is so amazing. Unfortunately here in the Netherlands they are obsessed with squeezing as much profit out of everything as they can, so we ended up with undercooked factory baguettes.
Very useful.
this is the Frenchest video on TH-cam
Laos and Vietnam are very lucky to have Baquets, very common and cheap.
Because they both are a Former French Colony
Very lucky to have colonized 😅😅 good one
RyX This is luxury in countries like Philippines. In Laos, they just sell them on the street.
@@eduardochavacano are you Filipino?
Lucky to be ruled by the French and forced into the Vietnam war vs the US killing millions of them over 100's of years??
My dad used to bake French baguette years ago and we would take them to the market in the morning. By and hour or two, it was sold out.
Simply deliciousssss
Undeniably one of the greatest culinary joys in life is the crust from a sourdough that has been left to rise for 12-24 hours. Nothing much more to see here.
Apart from that the baguette, as a bread design, is laser focused to maximise the amount of that crust you get, while still having the bread in a convenient form factor.
End of story lol
The French are on to one of the best things in life. I hope they enjoy it forever.
We ll enjoy it don’t even worry about it
Sour dough is disgusting....authentic baguettes aren’t made from that woke muck
@@bsms254 Sure. Officially, baguettes were made with yeast only.
However, the sourdough method has been with us since at least 1500BC. Nothing new about it.
Also. Pretty sure that the bread in this video taste nothing like whatever sourdough trauma you experienced.
@@bsms254 how df is sourdough political?
So proud to be french love you baguette
So proud to be baguette love you french
@@gregkosinski2303 😂😂
This is insanely satisfying.
Very nice vdo. Wish to go back to France soon.
When I started learning French 'Boulangerie' was some of the first words they taught me beside the usual 'Bonjour' and 'Je m'appelle'. LOL
A very usefull word... well in fact you must learn in your first lesson : 'Bonjour, je voudrais une baguette s'il vous plait. Merci.' The rest is almost useless ^^
@@khaelamensha3624 LOL
I used to go to a local bakery in the middle east who made fresh baguettes every morning. They didnt get enough custom and started buying from a large bakery... i never went back again 😥 miss my fresh BLT baguettes of a morning 😥 fml
the real question is how did you get bacon in the middle east ?
@@NoobyStylezTV there are places that sell it legally like bahrain and dubai.