DUTCH CRUNCH BREAD CARTOON CRACKED

Roxie Food Center, located near Balboa Park, has one of Lee's (and many others) favorite sandwiches in the city - the hot pastrami on Dutch crunch. It’s one of my favorite things, food wise, about being back in San Francisco.' While I totally respect rye with pastrami, and a French roll for Vietnamese sandwiches, if you want a humble bread that just makes all sandwiches taste good, Dutch crunch is it. 'It’s got great texture with the softness of a roll. 'It’s the best sandwich bread,' Lee says. He didn't realize it was a Bay Area thing until he moved to the East Coast. Richard Lee, a San Francisco native and chef de cuisine at Michelin-starred Saison, grew up with Dutch crunch. Mariah Tiffany / Special to SFGATE San Francisco's top chefs love Dutch crunch Textural differences between the crispy top of the rice flour coating and the softer bread is what makes this so special, as multiple textures excite the sensory experience.' 'The starches and sugars are what create a crispy texture when exposed to the heat in the oven,' he adds.įor Chau, 'the appeal of Dutch crunch is not only visual, but also textural.

Rice flour does not contain gluten and has more carbohydrates in the form of various starches, creating the perfect crinkle topping when baked, Chau says. Together, these ingredients create an entirely different texture than the rest of the bread, transforming an otherwise regular roll into a little bite of magic. 'That nice, golden brown you see on a Dutch crunch roll comes from what we call 'Maillard browning,'' explains Chau, 'a reaction that happens when heat combines with the rice flour and sugar.' The crust is made up of of rice flour, sugar, oil, water, and yeast, combined together into a paste and painted on top of the bread. What exactly is Dutch crunch? How is it made? And what makes a Dutch crunch a Dutch crunch? While no baker worth their salt is going to give away their secrets, we asked Brian Chau, a food scientist who runs his own San Francisco-base food consulting company, Chau Time, to break it down for us. Chelsea Davis, Special to SFGate What's so special about Dutch crunch? Raymond Ofiesh of Raymond's Sourdough Outlet and Bakery holds a fresh loaf of Dutch crunch.

DUTCH CRUNCH BREAD CARTOON CRACKED

Its soft middle molds to whatever ends up inside the sandwich, but the cracked topping remains strong, giving your sandwich both shape and a perfectly crunchy texture. Its distinct golden-brown crinkled crust makes eating it a great sensory experience (and, for those interested in that sort of thing, autonomous sensory meridian response or ASMR). It's become a regional staple and can now be found in many delis, alongside its more classic bread counterparts, like sourdough.ĭutch crunch is an oblong, white roll. Although it hasn't yet caught on nationally, this crusty, dense sandwich bread is wildly popular but also very controversial here in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you were to ask a New Yorker, or even someone from LA or Seattle, what Dutch crunch is and what makes it so special, you would likely get a blank stare. In the San Francisco Bay Area it is called Dutch Crunch.Fresh Dutch crunch loaves from Raymond's Sourdough Bread Outlet and Bakery, South San Francisco. The US supermarket chain Wegmans sells it as 'Marco Polo' bread. The name originated in the Netherlands, where it is known as tijgerbrood or tijgerbol (tiger roll), and where it has been sold at least since the early 1970s. Typically, tiger bread is made as a white bread bloomer loaf or bread roll, but the technique can be applied to any shape of bread. The bread itself has a crusty exterior, but is soft inside.

The rice paste that imparts the bread's characteristic flavour dries and cracks during the baking process. The bread is generally made with a pattern baked onto the top made by painting rice paste onto the surface prior to baking. Tiger bread ( Dutch: Tijgerbrood), also known as Dutch crunch and under various brandnames, is a bread of Dutch origin that has a mottled crust.

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