Challah

I've never made bread before. So, I decided to make some challah.

Let's see how it'll turn out

Monitoring.

messed up a little bit so it's a smidge stringy and dry

Don't have a plastic tub so this pasta pot will do

the loaf expanded

egg wash

horrible braiding. Had a lump left over because I apparently can't estimate thirds

that's all for the pics I've taken.
20 min left in the oven as of right now. Moment of truth coming up---

OY/VEY

jewish foods are peak culinary kino, you heathen

>be me
>got to local Jewish bakery
>crowded as fuck
>hold up loaf
>what's the challah cost?
>entire pace goes silent
>$3.50 a loaf!
>place goes back to normal
>buy challah
>run home
>cry myself to sleep that night

did you pronounce it right?

Looks like braided baby shit

old joke, but i kek'd

Challah: the Jesus of breads

this is just dumb
good thing I like dumb

eggy breads are underrated

yum

...

one of them got too much egg wash on it.

Learned a lot though. Bread making is fun

Looks good OP, keep at it!

ive started making that fathead dough and it's really good, made some bagels today. i want to eat them all but they are filling!

Actually came out pretty good OP. You are honorary jew for one night only.

I am jewish, thus the challah

>mfw a jew thread that hasnt been raided by /pol/ yet.

l'chaim my brothers

While I'm novice at bread making, I'm pretty good at making latkes. Might to a thread on it later

put yourself in the oven next time

if you are really jewish, why haven't you commited suicide yet? or is your mother dead?

next time let it proof after braiding it. also the nicer looking(smoother) the strands you braid are, the nicer it'll look like once it's risen

where's the fucking honey? this isn't challah

fite me

I did let it proof a bit; I let it 2x in size in the big pot, then I kneaded it some more, braided it, and gave it a preliminary egg wash. Then I waited another hour, gave it a 2nd wash, and stuck it in the oven.

next time I won't do two loafs at once. My oven can't fit both side by side, so one was on the bottom "shelf" which apparently isn't the best for bread.

Next time try making superior water challah.

looks a bit doughy, needs to... GO BACK IN THE OVEN

that looks really good

super dense, brah

It is. The taste is so much better, the crust is so much yummier and crunchier in water challah.

The only thing water challah is worse at is staying fresh. It goes stale fast.

Jew in Japan here.

I miss challah so much.

Try including an image next time.