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Danish Ring dough made in 5 minutes a day

Bread making can be a wee bit intimidating for most folks without a bread machine, or even those with such an appliance. BUT did you know that with a bucket and just a few simple bread baking ingredients, you can create a brilliant artisan bread after only two hours of sitting, NO kneading/NO proofing and a short sit-time? The best part is with this master you can keep it in the fridge for two weeks and have bread as often and as FAST as you would like! Artisan bread made simple. Brioche, scones, sticky rolls, pizza dough, Tuscan breads. . .just about whatever you can dream up!

Check out this step by step video and score your way to some great home baked bread in no time! If you’d like to learn more about how to bake Artisan bread in 5 minutes a day you can check out the book by Jeff Hertzberg and Chef Zoë François. By the way, Jeff Hertzberg is a hobby chef, just like many of you, and teamed up with Pastry Chef François to make bread the easy way, and write a cookbook. Maybe you’re next!

Here is another less-rushed video of how to bake Artisan Bread in 5 minutes a day from the Macmillan website.

Meet the Durian: "King of Fruit!"

Since we’re coming up on pie season. . .

Actually, is there really a pie season? If you ask us, pie is good every day all day. . .right?

Right! Anyway, pie means fruit, and if you’re one to try your hand at baking with a few exotic fruits with which you’re not commonly familiar, you might want to take a look-see at Baldor Speciality Foods Culinary Council, and sign up for their free “Baldor Bites” newsletter. (Newsletter link down at presstime…we’ll keep you posted!)

Each month the company will highlight one of their unique products and outline how you can use each one. Not bad for those of us still looking up what a Mandarinquat is, or curious as to how to eat a Tamarillo, or a Sorrell.

Yum.

Take a look at the Baldor site, and sign up for their newsletter. . .tell ‘em TheBaker.com sent you! They also have some tasty pastry and chocolate products you can purchase in their online store.

Milan style in an oven mitt? If it is from BuiltNY!

Okay, so there’s not a whole lot to get overjoyed about when it comes to oven mitts, but these babies from Built are giving us goosebumps. Or maybe that’s the textured, “no slip grip” we’re feelin’? Hmmm…not sure, but what we can tell you is that these mitts, that are purported to fit like a glove, are just “super-swag-a-rific” when it comes to design. Look at those colors! And the price is a nice value-play for those watching their budgets too.

And the best part? The next time you’re trying to pull out that Kitchen Aid silicon 12 cup mini muffin tin out of the oven, and there’s nothing to grab onto, your full arm (unless you’re a giant like Shaq. . .) will be covered. . .sparing you those nice horizontal burn marks that’ll ID just about anyone sporting them as a chef or home baker.

We think you’ll like these mitts. . .grab your own BuiltNY runway mitts today, and let us know what you think! The forums are open!