Canal+ kitchen in Bakery

AUTHENTIC SOURDOUGH BREAD 

CANAL + KUCHNIA team, led by Piotr Kucharski, visited Bakery Browary Warszawskie. They filmed the next episode of „Domowa kuchnia Kucharskiego” („Kucharski's Home Kitchen) devoted to authentic sourdough bread.

„Sourdough bread has recently returned to favour” - Kucharski notices during the recording. “For many people, it is a completely new discovery. Meanwhile, such bread has been baked by our grandmothers and great grandmothers long before yeasts were introduced. I personally adore this old method of baking bread. I will tell you a little about sourdough baking today, and I will start this great adventure by visiting Bakery Browary Warszawskie”.

Kucharski is taking a stroll through Warsaw Breweries and enters our bakery: “This place instantly hits you with the aroma of freshly baked bread, the shelves filled with sweet pastries and glossy bread; all under the watchful eye of Michał Paleta” - he says.

What follows is Piotr Kucharski and Michał Paleta preparing country sourdough bread together. The process of making it takes a mere … 36 hours! Paleta describes all the stages of the process – the checking of purity of sourdough starter; the mixing of starter with the dough; the rising of the dough (takes a couple hours and the dough is folded twice in the process, to strengthen the gluten network; 3.5 hr fermentation; initial kneading; 30-40 min dough resting period; final kneading (“ … spongy, airy and pretty – with visible air bubbles” - Kucharski notices); 18 hr cool storage resting period; 45° angle cutting after removal from storage; and 35-37 min baking. Et voila!