Kneading your dough is basically the first phase you go through to get from a bag of flour to a beautiful loaf. What happens in your dough when you knead it? You hydrate the flour. Flour will undergo a great transformation once in contact with water. Gluten begins to form in your dough, as you just add water to your flour. You don’t even need to knead it, the gluten can form by itself. You need to gradually add water to the flour and only […]
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Dough kneading
A short introduction to flours
How many types of flour are out there? Countless. Out of these flours, even seasoned bakers know only a handful of flours they were lucky enough to work with. There are a few countries that have centuries old tradition when it comes to farming grains and milling the cereal into what every baker needs for their bread. France and Italy are definite leader when it comes to flour production, but there are a few other countries that are challenging them now, amongst which the U.K., […]
About us
The story behind ‘Homebakers by Grain Trip’ cannot start without first mentioning our “big brother”. With Grain Trip, we dreamed of taking everyone who visited our bakery on an exciting journey around the world, where they could discover the tastes and treats of new destinations on each visit. We were homebakers for a very long time until we could make Grain Trip Bakery a reality. We opened its doors in April 2018, bringing 100% sourdough breads and tasty pastries, filled with love and character, to our hometown of Bucharest in Romania.
