It takes extra time to preheat when you are using a baking stone (you are preheating the stone also), of course how long it takes depends on your oven, the thickness of the stone, etc etc.
If anyone is interested in recreating this, just follow a basic french bread recipe. It's a lot easier than what they are doing here, your bread will rise so much more, and you'll be done in 3 hours tops. Plus, the tops your dragon tail will be nice and shiny! :)
As somebody who recently started making bread, I had similar reactions when i started reading all of the crazy terms and times, but its actually really easy (play a game with a pause function for the short time waiting or longer mixing times), and I'm now bringing bread to work 2 or 3 times a week to work, and colleagues are bringing toppings. (meats and cheese).
I love the Cooking segments. They were my favorite and still are. Robin and Felicia are just too funny together and in the kitchen. Poor Robin, the looks she was giving for this cooking turning into 2 days worth of investment. Hilarious.
Fun video! I will say that there are a lot of bread recipes with much shorter fermentation/rise time and simple, easy to find ingredients for anyone intimidated by the 18-hour dragon bread.
I'm always amazed when these cooking episodes actually work (sorta). It's like a magic trick. You give hope to those of us who aint so good in the kitchen.
Thank you for providing the weekly response to those people who apparently all missed the episode that was about announcing there wouldn't be full episodes for a while.
i have learned many things from this, 1st.. what a baguette couche is 2nd, what a shaft of dough looks like when the top is snipped and pulled back. and 3rd, book a solid day if i'm ever making fresh bread.
There are 4 names for the same thing, Poolish, Biga, Sponge and Starter, they all are just a pre fermentation of yeast to get it going and help with flavor and texture. I think most people associate them with sourdough bread.
I think this was one of my favorite cooking segments with Felicia and Robin, if only for the comedic value. You guys really should have a regular cooking show.
Mostly youtube. She's one of the biggest web series personalities out there. She was in Doctor Horrible's Sing-a-long blog (written and directed by Joss Whedon and worth looking up), She wrote and starred in The Guild and has now made Geek and Sundry. She's was also in a few episodes of Buffy and last few seasons of the show Eureka (also awesome).
She mentioned several weeks ago (back in December) that she was going to be out filming stuff so the Flog would be an abbreviated/truncated version for a while.
In addition to Miller053, getting a good "crumb" (the part that makes the outside look darker brown is something most bakers have to really work for. Best way is to either add ice chips after the first 15 minutes of baking or to spray with cold tap water at 10 and then 15 minutes of baking.
The Dragon Tail Baguette is from 2010, but the clip showing the site is from some time between Feb 20 (date of that update) and Mar 3 (the next and most recent entry). So this is from a couple weeks ago.
Robin and Felicia should apply for the next season of the Food Network's Worst Cooks in America. Chefs Bobby and Anne would whip them into shape and it would be loads of fun to watch.
Just sat in a cafe on my lunch break giggling like a girl into my coffee. Feliciano and Robin, you have made my day! I'm gunna make me some dragon bread.
Exactly. Plus, a long-running web show probably can't afford to go off the air for months in between seasons, people wouldn't know when to come back or something. Although I wonder if the episode numbering will go on endlessly or we'll have Season 2 at some point.
Always read any recipe completely before starting! Think of it as a quest: you don't want to fight your way through a hundred level dungeon, be teleported to the Plane of Demons and find the Throne of Darkness, only to go "Oh, I'm supposed to hold up the Amulet of Yendor?! I left that at home!" Recipe writers are fond of instructions like "Now add to the frying pan the such-and-such, which you have marinated for at least 24 hours in a mixture of ...." Sadists, all of them!
It was a bit undercooked. The structure was there. If they wanted to make the top all browned & awesome looking, you coat it in an egg wash. That helps with browning.
I bet that bread is still sitting up in the G&S offices, practically untouched in the last few months since this episode was filmed, probably in the same room with the cameo soap.
Whatching you guys cook is freakin hilarious!! I'm watching you and hearing my Home Ec teachers voice in the back of my head yelling "you're doing it wrong!" but I can't stop watching. Too much ROFLing :)
Powerful poolish pixies persistently procure payback (2:27). Agree with Robin's accessory (assuming it contains a highly caffeinated substance). My belief is that any recipe that does not have a dedicated button on the microwave requires a minimum ingestion of two very large coffees by the preparer.
And Robin perfectly knew it was going to take two days (they probably arranged to film something else in the meantime). It's like having to explain stuff to 6-year-olds. :) "Don't worry, honey, the rabbit didn't really disappear in the magician's hat!"
Actually, I believe she's just not doing the Trio Mio and whatnot because she's travelling and working on projects, but she's still doing big segments! ^w^ She mentions it in the Goat episode.
For the record: I have never, in quite a few years of baking, made traditional yeast bread that was less than two hours from dough to oven. If you've made any type of traditional bread in an hour, you're either omitting a step or your house is bordering on being a sauna.
When you make yeast bread, traditionally you let it rise, then beat the crap out of it, then let it rise again, and knead it before you start shaping the loaf. That's what probably went wrong. Oven might have needed to be hotter too. Also, poolish is new to me. Heard it referred to as a 'starter' before.
This loaf isn't ready for baking, my sweet. It has yet to rise. [...] you'll have to use your hands. -Crantius Colto, the Lusty Argonian Maid, any The Elder Scrolls game since Morrowind
You must have missed the episode where she said this was temporary while she was away. I'm pretty sure all these segments were recorded months ago. There won't be any newly filmed segments until Felicia returns, and the Trio Mio will return with her.
as professional artisan bread baker and an intense fan of Felicia, If you ever read these, bring me on and i will teach you in a brick oven bakery how to make some of the neatest things out of bread you can imagine, including an actual dragon. Well, a bread dragon.
Exactly, when properly shaped (with folding, paying attention to seams, etc), it would have created some tension on the surface (gluten cloak) that would have helped it keep it's shape better. I'm by no means an expert, but (coincidentally) have been playing around with bread baking lately, and specifically baguettes so have been doing a lot of reading/video watching, as well as experimenting. :)
Lol, 15 hours livin' the dream. :D Too awesome. I think perhaps it's expected one has a dragon's lifespan to accommodate the time required to create the dragon's tail bread.
I know a clone of her that runs a hair salon. Highly inappropriate people are good luck charms. Like little people only less social guilt. Everybody needs one.
Felicia I just purchased tickets to C2E2! I was a little on a fence about going, as I have absolutely no one to go with, but then I saw you AND Amber Benson were going to be there and I put aside my irrational (not really that irrational) of being in a large city alone and purchased a ticket. I'm quite excited!
LMFAOOO Robin is so DONE this entire video! I love her omg
S R Me too! She's so cute! She seems like some one that would be a lot of fun to know. Felicia does too though!
Oh my I fuckin love Robin and Felicia in this video. Robin has a lot of patience
1:33 "I mean it looks like I would not want my thighs to look like that" Girl to the left..sighhhh..
i was laughing so hard i cried. As somebody that is obsessed with baking bread this was so much fun. I think I will have to watch it again...
It takes extra time to preheat when you are using a baking stone (you are preheating the stone also), of course how long it takes depends on your oven, the thickness of the stone, etc etc.
Love when the mixer went nuts and Robin calmly steps back out of the way while Felicia gets sprayed!
If anyone is interested in recreating this, just follow a basic french bread recipe. It's a lot easier than what they are doing here, your bread will rise so much more, and you'll be done in 3 hours tops. Plus, the tops your dragon tail will be nice and shiny! :)
Seriously, the cooking/baking with Felicia & Robin, are the best episodes ever.
As somebody who recently started making bread, I had similar reactions when i started reading all of the crazy terms and times, but its actually really easy (play a game with a pause function for the short time waiting or longer mixing times), and I'm now bringing bread to work 2 or 3 times a week to work, and colleagues are bringing toppings. (meats and cheese).
I love the Cooking segments. They were my favorite and still are. Robin and Felicia are just too funny together and in the kitchen. Poor Robin, the looks she was giving for this cooking turning into 2 days worth of investment. Hilarious.
By the way, the bread knife is for cutting the bread after it's done, not the dough. Love these video! :)
Felicia PLEASE invite Robin Thorsen in for more videos! You two have an amazing chemistry and together make me cry tears of laughter :D
Fun video! I will say that there are a lot of bread recipes with much shorter fermentation/rise time and simple, easy to find ingredients for anyone intimidated by the 18-hour dragon bread.
"uh huh, yeah, I see it. Look at that dragon tail." LOL oh Robin!
This must be the most fun way to level up cooking.
Felicia Day inadvertently kidnaps Robin Thorsen for an entire day. "You will be paying for lunch!"
I'm always amazed when these cooking episodes actually work (sorta). It's like a magic trick. You give hope to those of us who aint so good in the kitchen.
Thank you for providing the weekly response to those people who apparently all missed the episode that was about announcing there wouldn't be full episodes for a while.
'Livin' the dream.' Oh Robin, you are adorable!
i have learned many things from this, 1st.. what a baguette couche is 2nd, what a shaft of dough looks like when the top is snipped and pulled back. and 3rd, book a solid day if i'm ever making fresh bread.
There are 4 names for the same thing, Poolish, Biga, Sponge and Starter, they all are just a pre fermentation of yeast to get it going and help with flavor and texture. I think most people associate them with sourdough bread.
in the guild when codex tells zaboo that he needs to some levelling? To me this whole clip is Felicia grinding her baking skill.
i love the cooking with Robin. it should be its own show every week. but with even more drinking.
lol I love how chill Robin is
i'm crying laughing at how badly you guys are executing this! hahahahaomg !
The first time I made bread I think I spent a week researching and planning so I knew all the steps, terms, etc. Good job for winging it!
I think this was one of my favorite cooking segments with Felicia and Robin, if only for the comedic value. You guys really should have a regular cooking show.
Mostly youtube. She's one of the biggest web series personalities out there. She was in Doctor Horrible's Sing-a-long blog (written and directed by Joss Whedon and worth looking up), She wrote and starred in The Guild and has now made Geek and Sundry. She's was also in a few episodes of Buffy and last few seasons of the show Eureka (also awesome).
She mentioned several weeks ago (back in December) that she was going to be out filming stuff so the Flog would be an abbreviated/truncated version for a while.
In addition to Miller053, getting a good "crumb" (the part that makes the outside look darker brown is something most bakers have to really work for. Best way is to either add ice chips after the first 15 minutes of baking or to spray with cold tap water at 10 and then 15 minutes of baking.
Ahahahahaha oh my god. The amount of failures here is too hilarious/adorable.
I love you Felicia, Robin, dragon bread baking, and Geek & Sundry. :D
Too funny, I love it when these two cook together. :)
The Dragon Tail Baguette is from 2010, but the clip showing the site is from some time between Feb 20 (date of that update) and Mar 3 (the next and most recent entry). So this is from a couple weeks ago.
miss the full episodes but the ikea building with jeff was absolutely hilarious and redeemed this show.
I totally agree. I was very concerned when she decided to start preheating her oven while they went to have lunch.
Robin and Felicia should apply for the next season of the Food Network's Worst Cooks in America. Chefs Bobby and Anne would whip them into shape and it would be loads of fun to watch.
Just sat in a cafe on my lunch break giggling like a girl into my coffee. Feliciano and Robin, you have made my day! I'm gunna make me some dragon bread.
Exactly. Plus, a long-running web show probably can't afford to go off the air for months in between seasons, people wouldn't know when to come back or something. Although I wonder if the episode numbering will go on endlessly or we'll have Season 2 at some point.
Now that is a show I would watch, "Cooking with Felicia and Robin".
1:34 That award moment when Felicia says something about cottage cheese thighs Right next to a fat person.........
I have never made bread before, but now I am inspired. Not snarky, really will do it. I mean it.
I don't know why the bread knife made me laugh so hard, but it did.
Always read any recipe completely before starting!
Think of it as a quest: you don't want to fight your way through a hundred level dungeon, be teleported to the Plane of Demons and find the Throne of Darkness, only to go "Oh, I'm supposed to hold up the Amulet of Yendor?! I left that at home!"
Recipe writers are fond of instructions like "Now add to the frying pan the such-and-such, which you have marinated for at least 24 hours in a mixture of ...." Sadists, all of them!
As a baker, I just couldn't stop laughing at this episode. Thank you Felicia!
It was a bit undercooked. The structure was there. If they wanted to make the top all browned & awesome looking, you coat it in an egg wash. That helps with browning.
I bet that bread is still sitting up in the G&S offices, practically untouched in the last few months since this episode was filmed, probably in the same room with the cameo soap.
"It's good...it tastes like bread" lol
As a baker who loves to make bread I found this hilarious.....especially the murdering of the dough... lol. #bakingproblems
"It tastes like bread" - I think that's a win.
Whatching you guys cook is freakin hilarious!! I'm watching you and hearing my Home Ec teachers voice in the back of my head yelling "you're doing it wrong!" but I can't stop watching. Too much ROFLing :)
As ever Felicia & Co your first attempts at everything are brilliant! You clever bunch of people! :D
My little guy and I have wanted to make bread for a while now, I think dragontail bread is on the agenda now..!
This was the best kitchen episode ever! Robin is awesome!
I'm convinced Felicia made the whole crew sit there and watch the bread rise and the oven preheat while her and Robin went out for lunch.
Except for that whole "panic and crap yourself" thing, you guys did fairly well with your first starter raised bread.
Powerful poolish pixies persistently procure payback (2:27). Agree with Robin's accessory (assuming it contains a highly caffeinated substance). My belief is that any recipe that does not have a dedicated button on the microwave requires a minimum ingestion of two very large coffees by the preparer.
Thats a great tip on pre-heating the oven, then leaving the house to out to eat for an hour lol
And Robin perfectly knew it was going to take two days (they probably arranged to film something else in the meantime). It's like having to explain stuff to 6-year-olds. :) "Don't worry, honey, the rabbit didn't really disappear in the magician's hat!"
Totally thought she was going to come home to a kitchen on fire after preheating it and going out to lunch! lol
That 'thing' you needed is called a peel and extra bonus points for putting your bread on the pizza stone
Dragons and breads, two of my favorite things.
Actually, I believe she's just not doing the Trio Mio and whatnot because she's travelling and working on projects, but she's still doing big segments! ^w^ She mentions it in the Goat episode.
For the record: I have never, in quite a few years of baking, made traditional yeast bread that was less than two hours from dough to oven. If you've made any type of traditional bread in an hour, you're either omitting a step or your house is bordering on being a sauna.
I'm supposed to be writing about the Italian Renaissance, not watching this! But this is much more fun.
When you make yeast bread, traditionally you let it rise, then beat the crap out of it, then let it rise again, and knead it before you start shaping the loaf. That's what probably went wrong. Oven might have needed to be hotter too. Also, poolish is new to me. Heard it referred to as a 'starter' before.
Stroking the dragon tail bread will not make it rise! lol
This loaf isn't ready for baking, my sweet. It has yet to rise. [...] you'll have to use your hands.
-Crantius Colto, the Lusty Argonian Maid, any The Elder Scrolls game since Morrowind
It's so fun watching Felicia try to cook. But you should have saved that bread website for a Trio Mio.
The flog makes me happy, I can live with out the opening.
You must have missed the episode where she said this was temporary while she was away.
I'm pretty sure all these segments were recorded months ago. There won't be any newly filmed segments until Felicia returns, and the Trio Mio will return with her.
I want this segment to be its own show! XD I'd watch it every week!
I'd be willing to bet that she just liked the way the bread looked in the picture :)
so jealous of that stove and DOUBLE OVEN
HAHAHA... the flour-splosion made me snort!! LOL
as professional artisan bread baker and an intense fan of Felicia, If you ever read these, bring me on and i will teach you in a brick oven bakery how to make some of the neatest things out of bread you can imagine, including an actual dragon. Well, a bread dragon.
Exactly, when properly shaped (with folding, paying attention to seams, etc), it would have created some tension on the surface (gluten cloak) that would have helped it keep it's shape better. I'm by no means an expert, but (coincidentally) have been playing around with bread baking lately, and specifically baguettes so have been doing a lot of reading/video watching, as well as experimenting. :)
I will always watch these. You two are adorable and awesome.
you guys should with Robins parents, holy shit the pics she posts when shes there :D
The biggest tip for folks learning how to cook/bake: Always read through the entire recipe carefully beforehand! Otherwise, this is what happens. O:)
Robin is like she dosnt give a shit bout anything xD
That was the most entertaining bread making ever
I can't believe how much I love the flog. It's so fucking hilarious!
i miss these!! do these again!
Lol, 15 hours livin' the dream. :D Too awesome.
I think perhaps it's expected one has a dragon's lifespan to accommodate the time required to create the dragon's tail bread.
Awesome well done Felicia you did better than I would have!
LOL This is funnier then Bert Kreischer's Something Burning cooking show.
lmao who would have thought that bread making could be so entertaining!!
This was one of the best yet - yay!
Robin is absolutely adorable.
More felicia day videos!!! She is awesome and entertaining
I wanna make it!!! But scarier looking of course. More like a Dragons tail and less like a loaf of bread.
I know a clone of her that runs a hair salon. Highly inappropriate people are good luck charms. Like little people only less social guilt. Everybody needs one.
More cooking segments please!
"It's a bread knife." lol
I always wanted to try making bread. This is making me think twice. LOL~
Felicia I just purchased tickets to C2E2! I was a little on a fence about going, as I have absolutely no one to go with, but then I saw you AND Amber Benson were going to be there and I put aside my irrational (not really that irrational) of being in a large city alone and purchased a ticket. I'm quite excited!
This is the best thing I have ever seen. EVER.
Well, you know what they say: Penny wise, found poolish. The bass line in the background music was from Rob Balder's "Gamer Funk." Nice choice.
So much resting and 17 minutes cooking. Good for you guys, I would have quit after the first 18 hours wait, haha.
We're going to have a Flog where Felicia gets to meet the nice firefighters after she puts ice in boiling oil then leaves the room for an hour.