The King Arthur Baking Company's All-Purpose Baker's Companion (Revised and Updated)

Just amazing, jazzed up, or just plain classic recipes. Obviously immediately took off the book jacket because this will be used a LOT, just need to find the right protector for it. Very tired of phone scrolling and wanted a tangible object full of no nonsense tested recipes. Huge sections of techniques, what to do when adding certain types of grains, additives and fruits, well, basically everything a beginning to advanced baker needs to know. I am relatively familiar to baking, but I like to start with exact base recipes to the grams, then next time start changing things up. Had the book 24 hours and made brownies (amazing), Basic White loaf 101 (fantastic crumb, just firm enough for sandwiches, toasts perfectly, I mistimed warming my oven and overproofed by about 30 minutes, which created an “uglier” loaf, but that was my fault. Bake when dough is final proofed 1” above top of pan like it says, dumped the ingredients in my bread machine, ran the dough cycle, 1.5 hours later shape/pan/final rise/bake, very easy), and Japanese milk rolls (added a generous brushing of garlic butter and sprinkled seat salt out of the oven, they basically disolve in your mouth) have been using King Arthur’s Pain de Champange for my sourdough recipe for a month now (it’s not in the book but it’s fairly similar, and the proofing times are about perfect for my schedule, and I love it, have to bake 2-3 times a week, but I usually make a batch bread bowls). Easy enough recipes to start moving to much more complicated projects. Which I greatly look forward to, unfortunately couldn’t afford the other two, but ONE day I’m getting the collection!Now, my issues with the book:1. Already tired of hearing “I am gonna get SOOOO fat!”2. Im going to go broke buying ingredients. (I somehow stumbled on 5$ bags of KA bread flower on sale at Walmart… so I bought 30 pounds of flower… something I never saw myself doing.) Will have to either find cheaper alternatives or curb it to 2-3 new things a week unfortunately, but currently having tons of fun developing my passion for this skill.3. That’s about it, if you enjoy learning and baking just buy the book, you will not regret it.Update:Been baking as much as I can, with a combination of this book for techniques/base recipes, and variations of recipes from the site. From milk buns, different types of bread loaves, fudge brownies, cinnamon rolls, eclairs, sourdough to basic naan bread and zephyr pancakes. Going to have to start selling stuff on Facebook so I can buy more ingredients just to keep baking every day. Most of the pics are my first time making the recipe, and every time gets a little better. Hope to get a proper set of pans and the other two books someday. But still having fun a month later and reference the All-Purpose Bakers Companion almost daily.

I love baking, but never developed a consistency to my bakes. This baking guide is an excellent tutorial filled with fantastic recipes. My family’s favorite is the pillowy cinnamon roll recipe—they come out perfect every time! When you buy this, invest in a baking scale so you are measuring the ingredients by weight instead of volume. Although the recipes show both cups and grams for measurements, the book’s recommendation for a weight scale dramatically improved my bakes.

In 2003, the first King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion Cookbook became a reality. I was in heaven, a company I revered, and one I followed closely, used their products, had given us a beauty of a cookbook. I have used it for these past 18 years. A little tattered and torn, but all there in black and white.And, now, 2021, we have the revised. and updated companion. The King Arthur bakers have been working on this cookbook. since 2019. What we have is 550:pages of 450:recipies, and so much more. Much has changed in these years, and this cookbook reveals that. But, it also maintains the basics of cooking and baking. This is a hefty book. Thrre are 15 new chapters. In the middle of the book are the photos, beautiful colored photos of the food. And,the more you dig in, the more you want to know.The introduction is followed by a chapter on measuring. This is all important in baking the correct weight. A kitchen scale is a must in. 2021. The table of contents includes every kind of baking. The recipes easy to read, the nutritional contents at the bottom of the page. Anything and everthing you might want to know is included. The cookbook is a worthy addition to your collection. You will use it everyday.Recommended. prisrob 03-03-2021The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion: The All-Purpose Baking Cookbook

Best cookbook for any baker. Recipes are clear and easy.

This book is out standing resource. Any baker can find this book handy.

Very good book with nice recipes. Easy to follow.

The new edition of King Arthur Flour Co. Baking Companion may be exciting to give or receive. It's packed with tried-and-tested recipes and updated with today's baker in mind. For a gift or personal investment, it would be lovely. However, I was disappointed that the photos in the middle felt like a high school yearbook insert. Like, it was took expensive to put color photos on every page, so they put them only in the middle. I understand. But since the recipes didn't have photos, I went to the website, and wound up using that instead.

And my copy has all the pages. If it didn’t, I would return it.