Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

How to make bread?

1 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD walks through making bread with four ingredients: grain like einkorn, salt, water, and a homemade culture. He gives the basic ratio (720g wheat, 2 cups water, 2 tsp salt, 1/4 to 1/2 cup culture) and explains how to start a culture by mixing ground grain and water, feeding it daily. Avoid chlorinated tap water, which kills the culture.

Questions this video answers

Grain, salt, water, and culture.

720 grams wheat; about 2 cups warm water; 2 teaspoons sea salt; about 1/4–1/2 cup culture.

Tap water that contains chlorine (speaker: "Don't use tap water that has chlorine in it").

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There's only four ingredients to bread. So is your bread real or not real? Is it fake bread or not? Well, there's one way to know. First ingredient in real bread is just your grain. So we usually use either a einkorn or a traditional grain. The second ingredient is salt. Third ingredient is water, and the fourth is your culture. That's all that's in your bread. The basic recipe is 720 grams of wheat. And we grind the wheat, roughly about 2 cups of warm water, 2 teaspoons of sea salt, and then about a quarter to half a cup of the culture. The culture itself, we actually make here. The way you can make your culture is you just, Jason, take the grains, you grind them up and then put a little bit of water and mix it up so it's kind of liquidy. And every day you add more flour into it and still starts to bubble. Don't use tap water that has chlorine in it, because chlorine is an antibiotic and it can actually affect the cultures as well. So those are the things for making real bread. Enjoy.