artisan baking
Small-batch bread craft
Artisan baking is bread-making that emphasizes traditional methods, quality ingredients, and hands-on craftsmanship over industrial production.
The term suggests long fermentation times, hand-shaping, and small batches: The bakery specializes in artisan baking with sourdough starters.
Marketing has diluted the phrase—supermarkets now label mass-produced loaves "artisan" based on appearance alone.
- sourdoughWild-yeast bread starter
- wild yeastUncultivated fermenting microorganisms
- crustHard outer layer
- crispy crustHard, flaky outer layer
- loafBaked bread shape
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