Greetings all,

I am a cook (French-trained chef via an apprenticeship) and although I currently work in the banquet department of a hotel in Northeastern Pennsylvania, I shall soon be relocating to Texas to accept a line-cook job in a fine-dining restaurant.  I am not a baker (although I am fairly good at it) but I do enjoy baking at home for myself, my friends, and my family.  I joined this site in hopes of learning more about baking (breads and otherwise) and hopefully improve in an area that I think I need to work on.  I look forward to talking with you all here and learning from you.

Slaínte,

Paul

I LOVE this site!!!!  I've learned so much just in lurking around. I finally posted a help in the sourdough section and I'm anticipating learning alot.  It's so cool to see so many people willing to share their knowledge and guide beginners around. A great community feeling.  I'm fairly new to bread, have done some instant yeast etc breads but have moved on to wild starters!!!  My only hope is to one day be half as knowledgable as some of the people on this site who have probably forgotten more than....how does that saying go....than I'll ever learn?  Well I don't want to say that exactly cause I hope to learn alot. Anyway, thanks for your generosity and hopefully there will be more and more people getting back to the food basics, cooking and baking at home!

Matina

Hello everyone,

I am very excited to have finally joined this forum.  I have read posts for the last month or two, and am finally joining.  I just found my passion for baking bread about 2 months ago, and I have not stopped baking since!  Every day that goes by without baking makes me sad :(.  I currently am trying to perfect a stollen recipe and am looking for tips and ideas from experienced stollen bakers!

I look forward to sharing my passion and learning from you!

Andrew

Hi,

I am new to the forum and to baking bread. I am reading lessons and looking before I begin. I am sorta of scared as I do not have alot of gear at all. I think 1 small baking pan for bread is all I have. But when I feel I am ready I will start and let everyone know how I made out! I am from PA. USA

I have made pumpkin bread once along time ago but lost the recipe I had. It was the one you made in a metal coffee can. If anyone has it, I would be happy if I could get it again as it was so good and great for Christmas gifts, everyone loved it!

Thank You

Standingdoe

Hello all... just dropping a line to say hello from Northern Ireland! Anybody else from the Belfast area?

I've been hanging around the site for a couple of weeks now, and have definitely got the bread making bug. Even my fussy eater boyfriend is excited about the bread I'm making - hurrah for the Fresh Loaf!

All the best

Sheps

Hey all, I've been a professional baker for about 35 years and just started up a youtube channel to share my knowledge of the art of baking with you guys.  If you visit it by following this link http://www.youtube.com/user/JuliesCookingShow?feature=mhee  you can see my first video on how to make some delicious pecan dessert cups.  As I'm new to all this stuff I'd like you guys to tell me what you want to see and what I could improve on.  Also I would greatly appreciate it if you could help me out by spreading the word and subscribing.  Thanks thats all for now!! 

Hi everyone.

I've been making my own bread for about 10 years and sourdough for the last couple. My husband has almost finished our wood fired oven and we've made some pizzas, a roast and some apricot crumble (crisp to you US folks) in it already. 

Looking forward to sharing with you. I'm in Melbourne Victoria and buy my flours from Marg and Maree's in Heidelberg as well as the Wallaby flour from the supermarket.

Can't remember the last time I bought bread from the shop!

Cheers!

Fay

Hello, greetings from the Missouri Ozarks.  Watching the mist rise from the lake...the sun hasn't come up yet.  I just came on board here because the breads look good, and because I never met a baker I didn't like.   I've been making bread for quite a few years, but there's always more to learn.  The object is to stay healthy and happy, and good bread does that.

Hey all! Hopefully going to get a starter, started tonight!

My goal is in 12 days, to make a loaf of sourdough.

Now, Looking around, it seems like it's one of the harder loafs to make. I am handy with baking, but this will be my first attempt at anything with yeast! Wish me luck! I'm thinking I will start a blog on here to document my adventures (hopefully not misadventures!) through my trials!

Update soon!

i am new to the bread baking and would like to continue in the field when i am done with culinary school. i was wondering what the easiet bread to make is and is semi fool proof so i don't screw it up too much. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you!