Shadowing Practice: Bread in Your Blender Will Blow Your Mind | Quick Gluten-Free Blender Bread | ChefSteps - Learn English Speaking with Video
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You know, I've met so many people who say they don't like baking for all sorts of reasons.
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I think this is like beginner baker's gold.
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It's that gateway baker's recipe.
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Today we are going to make Wonder Bread.
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Super easy, super fast, only a few ingredients, and it's delicious.
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And it happens to be gluten-free.
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That's crazy.
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Rick always wants his YouTube thumbnail.
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What?
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It's Wonder Bread.
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There's a lot of white rice type bread dough recipes out there from Taiwan, China, India.
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This one, the reason why I like it is you can make it with pretty much any off the shelf rice
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and it comes together super fast in a blender.
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Our brilliant chef, Matthew, has kind of gone off the deep end.
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He developed the same recipe from every grain you can think of.
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You gotta get it at chefs.com.
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All right, you don't need much stuff.
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Rice?
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Same rice, already scooped.
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Da-da-da-da-da!
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Rice in a bowl.
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You got to soak the rice.
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For how long?
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Well, it depends.
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Depends how much of a hurry you're in. So...
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You can go right into making the bread right here, right into the blender, but if you soak the rice,
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even 20, 30 minutes, we've found, goes a long way.
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When you have dried rice, it's a little bit more than a little bit more.
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Dried rice, it's like basically this hardened shell of starch, right?
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But as you soak it that starch starts to soften up And that means when you blend it,
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it's gonna be finer and when it's finer That means it's going to be fluffier.
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So I'm gonna put this one aside.
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I'll make a loaf later.
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This guy It's been soaking 30 minutes or so it just gets like a little bit puffier chalkier,
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looks like a little cloudier than fresh rice.
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We're not trying to wash all the starch off.
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We're just soaking it.
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Drain.
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Everything goes in the blender.
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Here's what we got.
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A little more water.
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Oil.
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You can use any oil you want.
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It'll just change the flavor.
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You can go neutral.
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You can go olive oil, sesame oil, whatever you want.
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Salt.
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Need salt for a little flavor.
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Sugar.
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A little flavor.
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Also speeds up the yeast. And yeast.
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Makes the bread rise.
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That's it.
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I don't think I need anything else.
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Rice goes in the blender.
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Da da da da da!
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Vasa.
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Sugar.
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If you'll notice, these are all the same ingredients you always put in bread.
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Salt.
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Too little salt.
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Bread doesn't taste like anything too much.
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Kills the yeast.
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Salt's one you want to, like, keep an eye on.
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Here's why I add, like, double, triple the amount of yeast often to a lot of breads.
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One, it rises way faster.
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Two, I love the yeasty flavor of it, you know?
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You know, like really nice, savory, umami, yeasty flavor.
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Oil, easy.
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That's it.
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Oil, again, you can do no oil.
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The bread will be a little bit chewier, a little denser, a little less spring, but you can do too much oil in the bread, kind of like once to rise and split and sink again and get dense.
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So there's a perfect little middle ground.
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We'll cover that on Chefs'ix.com.
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That's it.
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That's everything.
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I'm going like extra slow.
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This is like a fast bread.
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Everything goes in, bzzzt, pour it, bake it, easy.
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But I'm gonna stop and talk for a little bit.
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You want a high-power blender, the Vitamix, the Wearing, the Breville.
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We like the Breville one.
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You know, you don't want those, like, oyster-izers that you got at your grocery store for $29.
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Probably won't do the trick.
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If I blend it a little bit, I'll have crunchies, and there won't be enough fine enough flour,
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basically a rice flour, to actually get a nice sponge.
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If I blend too long and it gets too hot, I can kill the yeast altogether.
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Further, I can like gel and actually hydrate the starch and it'll be like a gum, like a gum paste.
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So I recommend going like full blast until you get a thermometer,
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and you go to 105 or so and stop.
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Because any of these high-power blenders that are going to make a nice smooth paste are also going to heat up, right?
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And the yeast is gonna die if it gets to 120, 125, 130.
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Here's the other thing sugar, starch, all this good stuff, the yeast is gonna start eating it right off the bat.
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And if it's 105, it's its most active temperature.
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So we're gonna pour the batter in, and it's gonna immediately, like you're gonna see it in the first few minutes, it's gonna start rising and rising and rising, proofing, really fast.
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And then poof, right in the oven.
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Part of why this bread is done in an instant and so quick, part of the, we're making the flour,
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the dough, We're proofing it and kind of priming the yeast all in the blender all in one step.
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So it's kind of magic that way.
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Am I even plugged in?
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Maybe?
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Let's find out.
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Burp-burp-burp-burp.
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Here we go.
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I'll pull it down for a second.
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You know if you like steam milk like you're making coffee or espresso or something like that?
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Same thing, I'm just...
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See how hot we are.
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We're up to a minute.
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Just because we're making a video, I'll pause and I'll temp it and see where we're at.
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Doo doo doo doo doo.
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Whoa ho ho ho!
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What do you know?
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105. Good thing we stopped.
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You can do little loaf, big loaf, muffins.
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I like the little loaf, bakes nice and fast.
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Right now, this is fermented.
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And you can taste it, like...
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Mmm, it's starting to taste like a little tingly.
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This recipe that I've got is dialed in for two of these pans.
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Just split the load.
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Bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum.
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Da-da-da-da-da-da.
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See how it goes all jiggly?
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And then it goes to, they also call it liquefaction, that like settling, settling in from solid to liquid.
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Alright, I'm gonna start here, a little bit of water here.
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That moisture on top is gonna have a nice little film so it doesn't desiccate.
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Case-hardened is the technical baking word.
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And it starts to really crack and break.
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And splits out and your bread loaf goes, pfft, shoots out like that.
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Matthew just blended these, what, 20 minutes ago?
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30?
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They're even like soufflain up the side here a little bit.
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So we're gonna bake these, see what happens.
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I think they could possibly like go over, but we'll also bake these ones when they just get to the top.
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Pretty, jiggly, amazing, huh?
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Rice yeast, couple ingredients.
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Da-da-da-da-da.
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Ooh, makes me nervous.
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Should we put it on a tray so it doesn't bake all of our elements?
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Or you're like, nah.
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I'm gonna hit it with a little bit more spray.
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What I got going on here is 365, 30 minutes.
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But I want to keep on the moisture.
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So check this out.
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I love this little tray here, this drip tray.
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And you go, a little water here.
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Boink.
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Done.
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Knew it.
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Uh-oh.
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So let's look at it, though. Who cares?
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Let's take an opportunity to screw something up and learn from it.
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This is overproof.
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We goof up, we make messes, we screw up too.
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Happens all the time.
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These are still gonna taste amazing.
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I just don't want the oven to be all screwed up with little rice bread lumps all over the elements, you know?
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Three, two, one.
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Beep.
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Wonder Bread.
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It's ready, guys.
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Check it out!
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Wowee.
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Wowee, wowee, wowee.
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I actually didn't tempt these, but shouldn't take them out of the oven yet either, but I'm gonna do it just in case.
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Just in case, see where we're at.
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I hope you're...
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Oh, yeah.
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That's good.
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How pretty are they?
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Oh, my God.
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Ooh, maybe I don't even need a paring knife to get this out.
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Our wonderful blender bread is done.
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It's done baking.
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If I leave it in the pan, it'll be more gummy, wet, sticky.
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And the whole bread, the loaf overall, can start to dry out a little bit more that way.
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Sometimes you want that for like a banana bread or something, so it's stickier on the outside, you know?
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Check it out.
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I would never do this if I was going to slice it, but it's just like a half to with this bread.
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That is a nice loaf of bread.
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We've got so much good stuff about yeast, science of yeast, other breads, all sorts of gluten-free recipes, too, if that's your thing.
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Hamburger buns, brioche, croissants, all sorts of stuff.
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So go to Chef's Up to get it all.
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Mm.
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Mwah!
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Bread in Your Blender Will Blow Your Mind”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: bread, rice, yeast, bum, blender. This video has 185 sentences and 1498 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:30. The speaker talks at a natural 158 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 78% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| yeast noun | /jist/ | An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines. |
| blender noun | /ˈblɛn.dɚ/ | A machine with sharp rotating blades in a bowl, for mashing, crushing, or liquefying food ingredients. |
| bake verb | /beɪk/ | To cook (something) in an oven (for someone). |
| loaf noun | /loʊf/ | A block of bread after baking. |
| starch noun | /ˈstɑɹt͡ʃ/ | A widely diffused vegetable substance, found in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of a white… |
| soak verb | /soʊk/ | To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it. |
| flavor noun | /ˈfleɪvə/ | The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect. |
| recipe noun | /ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/ | Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients. |
| burp verb | /bɝp/ | To emit a burp. |
| wowee | wow; expressing astonishment, surprise or excitement | |
| blend verb | /blɛnd/ | To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other. |
| ingredient noun | /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/ | One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food. |
| tray noun | /tɹeɪ/ | A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried. |
| flour noun | /ˈflaʊ.ə/ | Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and… |
| oven noun | /ˈʌ.vn̩/ | A chamber used for baking or heating. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come together verb | /ˈkʌm tʊˈɡɛðɚ/ | To assemble; to congregate; to combine. |
| dry out verb | To cause moisture to be completely removed from; to make dry. | |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| go off verb | To explode. | |
| go over verb | To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze. | |
| heat up verb | To heat, to cause to become hotter. | |
| speed up verb | /spiːdˈʌp/ | To accelerate; to increase speed. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I think this is like beginner baker's gold.
- All right, you don't need much stuff.
- Depends how much of a hurry you're in.
- I'll make a loaf later.
- Am I even plugged in?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've met · we've found · have dried |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is fermented · is dialed |
| Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea | Should we put · shouldn't take |
| Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form | start eating · start rising |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 67 contractions and reduced forms, such as gonna, we're, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: thermometer /θɚˈmɑ.mɪ.tɚ/, thumbnail /ˈθʌm.neɪl/, altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: chef /ʃɛf/, brioche /bɹiːˈaʃ/, shelf /ʃɛlf/
- Long words — get the stress right: ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, thermometer /θɚˈmɑ.mɪ.tɚ/, altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like yeast, blender, bake.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.