4.42 avg rating — 11,591 ratings

"For commercial yeast breads, Flour Water Salt Yeast is our go-to book. His instructions to use a thermometer to measure the water temperature moved our bread onto a new level. It turns out dough temperature really does make a difference! Because of Forkish, there have been countless loaves of wonderful bread to go with countless happy and delicious meals."

4.21 avg rating — 6,561 ratings

"Rose Levy Beranbaum's book, The Bread Bible, truly is written for the home cook. Not that Beranbaum talks down or leaves out any essentials. The section entitled "The Ten Essential Steps of Making Bread" at the beginning of the book has been invaluable. "

4.37 avg rating — 405 ratings

"In spite of the overly complicated instructions for creating and maintaining a sourdough starter, the book is full of good ideas and is definitely one that can be added to the standard breadmaking cookbook shelf. For anyone who already has a starter going, her recipes look to be very good."

4.39 avg rating — 7,702 ratings

"After creating a whole wheat starter in July 2017, using Jane Mason's method in her book All You Knead is Bread, I returned to Robertson's recipe for Country loaf. A slight variation of this loaf is our basic bread ever since. We also have Chad Robertson to thank for introducing us to his easy mixing method, as well as baking the bread in a cast-iron combo-cooker. Don't get thrown off by Robertson's multi-page recipe for basic bread. The instructions are invaluable."

3.67 avg rating — 194 ratings

"excellent instructional photograph essays. Particularly valuable is Golper's method for making scones."

4.26 avg rating — 399 ratings

"Our first serious bread book. The section on rustic breads is worth the price of the book. On each recipe, there are instructions for preparing by hand, by food processor and by mixer. "

4.19 avg rating — 234 ratings

"Fully half the book is taken up with techniques, trouble-shooting ideas and alternate names and properties of various flours. There is also extensive information on creating and maintaining sourdoughs. This is why it is included on this list. Not for the recipes. For the methods."

4.09 avg rating — 586 ratings

"Great tips for making light 100% whole wheat bread. Excellent troubleshooting page as well."