Solo baker, 25 kinds of bread, a wood-fired oven | Sourdough bread making in Japan | Documentary

Baking bread without electric ovens, baker’s yeast, and fermenters. Obst, a bakery specializing in bread made by home-cultivated leavens. The previous video, which recorded 3 million views on Youtube: Three years have passed since this video, and baker Ryuji Koiwai has entered a new stage in his career: he closed the store he had operated for 8 years in the city. He reopened the store with a wood-fired oven in a small port town. While maintaining his one-person bread baking style, he has taken on the challenge of baking bread more naturally without using three Sacred treasures for baking: an electric oven, baker’s yeast, and a fermenter. I closely covered a day in the life of a baker, Ryuji Koiwai, who alone produces 25 kinds of bread from 3:30 in the morning and covered the entire baking process. He also talks about his thoughts on bread making, the characteristics and uses of raisin leaven and rice wine leaven, and how he decided to open a sto
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