I love that Martin showed his son how to tweak & let him try again, instead of just taking over….awesomeness ❤️. Martin is so encouraging!

This is so helpful to watch a child be coached and lovingly corrected in the technique.

Here’s the deal...I have no baking experience. But, I love French baguettes. I watched dozens of “how to” videos to the point of being overwhelmed with the different methods. I now respect the craft of baking and the time it takes to learn the art of making and baking anything! This recipe and guidance WORKS! After throwing away several attempts...I followed this recipe and created my first successful baguette. Yes, I still need works on dough consistency, shaping, scoring and color but my baguettes looked pretty good and the taste was remarkable. I feel like I turned the corner and have the confidence to continue. The King Arthur Baking hotline was very helpful as well. If you’re like me with no experience, lacking an understanding of terminology etc...this is the recipe to follow! Thank you to the folks at King Arthur!

You’re a great baker and an even better Dad.

Welcome to King Arthur Baking company, as a new employee we know you'll make us proud, with your great attitude and your creative skills you'll make a fine addition to our company. Welcome aboard...Arlo !

Arlo is a natural. You are a super teacher for him. Eat your mistakes! Great advice.

One of the best, if not the best, baguette training video I've seen on KZfaq. The patient coaching of his son during the shaping of the dough before the "couche", and then the details of the scoring (which is almost always flown by in most videos I've seen). In particular the angling of the blade to produce the "ear" that I've been looking for since I made my first baguette a couple of years ago. Thumbs up!

This is the best bread shaping tutorial I've ever seen ! Watching someone teach someone else is the best form of video pedagogy thank you !!

I love, love this video. I love, also, thar you are teaching your son!! Thank you!!!

What a great teacher and student! Loved watching them together!

This vid choosing to make special note about using an actual bread lame and the parchment paper is hugely appreciated. There are many fantastic videos, recipes, articles, etc online about making baguettes, but they all seem to overlook these two techniques.

I used this recipe and techniques and after trying other recipes, this was the one that gave me professional, artisan baguettes! Also, this video is so cute, I can barely take it! I love to see father and son working together! What a precious kid!

Finally, a landscape video.

I love watching Martin and Arlo even now. These fellow really are a great team. Learned so much. Thank you

I have learned so much! Thank you Martin and Arlo! You have demystified the art of baking an awesome baguette! This has been on my bucket list for years! They turn out so well and will only get better as I work at the craft! The time spent teaching Arlo is priceless!

I loved the teaching of the next generation. So cool to pass on traditions.

It's our pleasure! Thanks so much for baking with us. -👨‍🍳Ethan

Thank you and your son for sharing. I am somewhat experienced in general baking but I am afraid of baking bread! However, you guys are helping me feel like I can do this! Stay well everyone.

Music and making dough is on point. 😮 It's all rhythm.

I have spent the last two years learning bread and sourdough baking with generally good success. However, I have shied away from baguettes because they seemed so mysterious to me. Your video has me excited to try baking them. Thank you and your son for a wonderful (and inspirational) video!

Wonderful instruction on both breadmaking and child coaching!

That would be a classic transfer peel, which you can find over on our website here: bakewith.us/7wxrv7. Thanks so much for watching with us, and for baking along! -👨‍🍳Ethan

I made sourdough baguettes yesterday, all in one day. My starter was ready by morning. They came out really good. I proof and bake in a baguette pan. I’ve made them before and I use either the baguette pans or Emile Henry baguette baker. This is a great video to learn how to shape a baguette. I do it the same way. My dough is a no knead dough, 68% hydration, for easy shaping. Thanks for this presentation!

I have really enjoyed this series with great bread and an equally great family. Thanks for sharing your time and knowledge

Hi Parelli! We recommend using the linen couche to keep the shaped loaves from sticking to the sheet pan or to each other. It's also important to cover the tops of the loaves with the linen so they don't dry out too much. We hope this can help! -👩‍🍳Morgan

Thank you so much for all the effort you put into making this video happen. It’s wonderful to see you coach a beginner like me and you took the fear of getting it wrong away. Really appreciate your generosity with time and wisdom. 💕

I can’t wait to get started on this new project. I have watched numerous videos on baguette techniques and i have been kind of apprehensive about trying them but, watching this video I feel much more confident in trying to make them. You make things so simple and easy, I know it’s not but, I feel secure in my ability to make them now. I have had good success in different types of breads but, I love baguettes and have longed to try and make them. I will definitely be getting in touch with you for advice. Thank you.

Thank you for such a thorough educational explanation of a challenging process. I’m an experienced home bread baker but I’ve always been hesitant to bake banquettes because of how complex the process is. I learned a lot. I also appreciated how you didn’t rush the process and showed key points at least 2 times. Well done!

Just started baking after years of being a intermediate cook and this is a fantastic channel! Great video & much respect for the total art of shaping/forming and the time it takes to perfect this craft! Thank you for your instruction. You have a new subscriber!

Haha, I enjoyed the whole series! And your boy is a little better at shaping baguette than me. Looking forward to more releases!

My girlfriends & I made this recipe at my house & the video was so helpful! We had so much fun! Thank you Martin & Arlo! You are the BEST!

I prepared these today, watching the video several times, and even prepared a pizza from one. They turned out very well. The pizza especially puffed up nicely and was delicious. Thank you for providing the video!

my first bread was a baguette lol, they turned out amazing, I brushed them with water before baking and they shined and blistered up real good

Thanks for an excellent video. Watching you coach your son was very helpful. I will be shaping baguettes tomorrow and plan to pay special attention to not letting the bulge (high spot) get past my hands. I also struggle with getting the same pressure with both hands. Stay safe and healthy!

Thank you for the video! I followed your process today and made the best baguettes I have ever made. The video brought the recipe to life. Thanks again 😁

This video is priceless if only for the father son interaction.What a great place to learn,right alongside his daddy doing something so skillful and rewarding as baking bread.No criticism only encouragement.Reminds me of my mother doing the same.

Thank you so much for a wonderful video.... this is a good learning video. God bless you. Thank you Arlo .

what a good teacher.

Enjoyed watching you roll the baguettes. I learned alot. Now I must practice.

Thank you for all your tips

Dude's a total dream boat. Good father, great baker.

Fantastic...enjoyed the lessons Baguettes look great

@Martin thanks for the awesome tutorials and educational videos. I spent time researching and reading recipes and techniques this week and your dough tips and baguette tips helped me tremendously. I am 53 and new to baking so the bakers math was excellent, making preferment and a little for thought/planning made all the difference in the world! I made my first French baguette using the classic King Arthur Recipe and the techniques I learned from you videos. I am so proud of the qualified flavor, structure and everyone could not stop raving about it. My wife hosted 5 of her friends and made Zupa Tuscana, and I made the bread. She said these ladies don’t really eat bread and they all went back for more and more….they ate 2 an 1/2 of 3 loaves. It’s a keeper! Preferment game changer!

I want to share my story. I bought my first oven 12 years ago. At that time, home baking was just beginning to become popular in China. At that time, Tiktok was not born yet. Unlike today, when you run Tiktok and search, there are so many Baguette tutorials.I was a person without baking experience. But I wanted to make bread start from the baguette. As you can imagine, what a foolish decision it was. I read a lot baking books in the bookstore and failed again and again. Until one day, it suddenly occurred to me that Since I can't find useful video tutorials in China. Why don't I go and see what foreigners do? And then I used VPN and went to KZfaq to search for baguettes. The first video I saw was Martin and Jeffrey's baguette tutorial. Follow that tutorial and I succeeded immediately. Many years later, I realized how lucky I was to be able to see the tutorial of this two masters first. Twelve years have passed, and I've made hundreds of baguettes. Today, I open KZfaq again and saw this video.OMG! I immediately recognized Martin.12 years,you are a daddy now . I just wanted to say, thank you, Martin! Best wishes to you and your family!

They say you need to make 1,000 baguettes before you master it. I have 975 to go! Great video

This is the second time I have watched Martin and son. They do a great job. I took the baguettes baking class at KAF and now watching Martin do it I now know additional info. I have combined part of both instructions and the result was fantastic!! Martin's KZfaq on bagels is also excellent!! I would like to have Martin do a KZfaq class on crossants

Thanks, great video! From Beersheva, Israel.

Thank you for sharing this 💛

Doing your video with your son was so great. I loved watching him learn as I tried forming baguettes for the first time.

This is really helpful having the instruction with correction of technique.

Fantastic teaching video . Thank you for sharing your skills .. I am enjoying my baguette journey

Great job Arlo !

Thank you for this great video.

Just purchased your All Purpose Baker’s Companion book from Amazon (I’m in Australia). Thanks again for this incredibly good video. Seriously one of the best instructional videos I’ve ever seen on KZfaq. 🙏 🌟

These videos are so wonderful! I can't get enough of the father-son dynamic. The videos are so informative! Thank you!!!!

Que lindos! Falo do Brasil. Amei vocês. Parabéns!!!

This was a MasterClass! Thank you guys. I was going to be so mad if you ended this video and didn’t cut into that and eat it so we could see! LOL,

Fantastic! Thank you.

I love this video ,thats how the artists start out learning at a young age ,We have a few Restaurants and the kids start work at a early age so that someday they can take the reigns ,Bravo fantastic work !!!!

Thank You KAF! I just decided how to shape today’s bread in bulk ferment.

Best Instruction so far.

I tried to make these last week...first try my baguettes looked like fat oval logs. 2nd try I made them too long and baked them diagonally across my 15" baking stone. I used parchment paper and the bottom of a big cookie sheet to load them onto the stone. They turned out nicely browned and I could hear the bread crackle as it cooled. Thank you so much for the video - now I know that seam side up to proof and seam side down to bake. The shaping and folding techniques were extremely helpful! As Martin said in the video, it takes practice and more practice! Hubby loved them!

Great teamwork there!

Thanks for that. I’m sure it will improve my baguettes!

Finally a good baguette. I used King Arthur bread flower and 1-3/4 teaspoons of Diastatic Malt Powder. I baked them at 495 F. Otherwise I followed the recipe. Thanks Martin!

Thank You, Learning a lot!

Wonderful video! Great teaching & spectacular family time. Love this series!

Thank you for sharing this fantastic video. I love bread and making it at home. I learned a lot listening to this. Hope to be able to visit King Arthur bakery someday! Greetings from Montreal QC :)

I learnt too much form your journey. And i thank you too. Thank you and selam to the kid. A nice baker kid :)

Fantastic explanation.

Excelente todo... Saludos cordiales desde Venezuela!!!

amazing video! the kid is the best!

Martin - you talk a lot but so do I. Because you love food so much and love teaching! You and I in the kitchen would end in a wrestling match but I love this video your passion is great. My son who is about to turn 10 is just like arlo and what's better than spending time with them! He says all the time "dad you talk too much" but I can't help it I love him and food! You all are great. Thank you for showing us how to do it right!

Great teacher student combo, nice and steady hands camerawomen.

Thanks for your share!

Great video, thank you

I like the music analogy. I can't wait to attempt these!

Hi. Thanks for sharing these awesome baking videos. They have been great while I gain a new hobby in bread making since lockdown in the uk. I always fancied the idea of waking up to freah baguettes from the oven. Looks impossible to do though as you would need to get up around 3.30am. Great show. Thank you

KA great video - Martin good job - cool kid.

I have never seen that folding technique employed by any French baker but I actually liked it better. More folds, fluffier. It takes longer and professional bakers simply don't have the time, I suppose. Poolish is pronounced polish. I prefer biga because I can have that longer in the fridge than poolish. I also recommend Sir Lancelot and a bit of whole wheat flour, but then I use sourdough not yeast - most of the time anyway.

Oh, using the peel to transfer...that's quite a smooth move.

Hi there! Can you be more specific about which recipe you're referring to so that we can help you with your question? -👩‍🍳Kat

I love this video ! Your style of teaching is simple and direct . Your Son is the best ! I will save this video and reference it often till I get better . Can I get the recipe on the website of King Arthur Flour ?

If you push the steamer to one side you can pour the water through the oven rack instead of trying to get under it. Also, a tall narrow water glass is easier to pour from. My $.02. Nice video. Baking bread ought to be like learning to ride a bike or to swim. Lucky young man. I didn’t start until I was in my 60s, but never too late.

Great camera work !

شكرا جزيلا لقد تعلمت منك الساوردو وعطيك الصحة وتلم ايدك ياشيف

Clicks on video about baguettes 🥖 > gets an ad for Air France lol 😂 At the end: “eat your mistakes” lol I look over at my kid #dadjokes

29:24 i had the biggest smile on my face like a dumbass here like i did the scoring. good job, arlo!

GRANDE MARTIN , INMENSO DICIPULO DE JEFFRY HAMELMAN , AHORA EN TU FACETA DE PAPÁ PANADERO . SALUDOS DE PERÚ.

Great video!! I did a test and placed yeast on top of salt and let it sit awhile then added some water and the yeast did not ferment even though I waited. My conclusion was that the salt killed the yeast. Both ingredients were up to date. Thanks for a very good video. Patrick Raffaelo

This video is amazing and totally corrected all of the problems I was having with my baguettes. Martin's techniques were a game changer for me and my bread. This is now my favorite recipe to make! I have one question for you, though, Martin: how do I prevent the water from wrecking my cast iron pan when I steam the bread? My poor pan...I have to re-season it every time I bake this bread! Is there a trick or something?

Can you please tell me where I can get the wooden board that you flipped the dough from the couch to the oven found the video very informative picked up some really cool tips thank you and your son great to see you passing this knowledge

Thanks a lot Martin. I cook with my son too. I made this recipe as my first baguette and results were fantastic. I use Organic Bread Flour from KA’s. Only my dough stick a little to the couche, but I used wheat flour. I thought about using rice flour better next time. Which flour you use or maybe I need to add more?

A thật tuyệt vời cảm ơn a đã chia sẽ công thức và cách làm

I love baguettes and look forward to making some. I heard you say you can make them with sourdough starter yeah! And would like to know how you do that. Love your tutorials ❤

I made these half a dozen times without the vital wheat gluten because I couldn't find it, using various combinations of whole wheat or bread flour to try to make up for the lack of that ingredient. They were ok but very difficult to shape and so sticky -- I couldn't understand how they possibly got the dough to the point where it didn't stick to your hands during shaping. The first time I tried to make this once I finally was able to use the vital wheat gluten was SO much easier and went just like in this video. Don't bother trying this without the vital wheat gluten no matter what the internet tells you about substitutes.

I hope to get as good as Arlo.

Thanks for that great video, I really think your bakery videos are the most instructive videos found on KZfaq, and your sweet son is the best prop ever! I baked the baguettes as described and the result is fine: crunchy, tasty and open crumb. Just that it didn’t open up in the oven as yours did…! Only very few of my cuts did open up as they should. Is it possible that my scoring cuts weren’t deep enough? Or a too big angle? It would be really nice if you could help me out! 🙏👍

I always learn from your how to shape baguettes. But I just would like to know the reason of closing the seam up on canvas. Thank you.

Arlo is very cute