Make Perfect Croissants With Claire Saffitz | Try This at Home | NYT Cooking

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A bunch of us Claire fans are making her croissants together this weekend!

I love how she isn't one of those "look how skilled i am" types. She really gives all of her tips and tries to make sure the viewer succeeds.

Petition for them to release a 4 hour video about claire talking about croissants

Ok... Here's a very important tip : I did this recipe many times and the only problem I have is, during cooking time, my croissants are leaking butter, so I end up with croissants that are floating in a lake of butter. I use regular butter for my butter block, because "dry butter or tourage butter " is very hard to find and even the European style butter at 84% of butter fat is hard to find as well. So here's the tip... Bring regular butter at room temperature so it will be soft, add 10% ( for 340g of butter 34g of flour ) of regular flour and mix until the flour is well incorporated. The flour will absorb the humidity in the butter and prevent the butter to melt too fast. And then, while your butter is soft you can easily form your block of butter like the recipe says. Bon appétit !!

“If I were to be editing this, it would be 4 hrs” I would watch a 4 hour video of Claire any day of the week...

"Baking fairy godmother" is the most perfect title for this queen!

As a mathematician I just love the precision, it's the only way to achieve consistency. She isn't just a superb chef, she obsesses over detail and this makes what she does reproducible and produces a superb culinary education for everyone.

I made these this weekend and even though it was my first time attempting croissants, they came out beautifully. It felt like such a triumph. My husband said that they were the best croissants he's ever had. Claire is the best!

It is so nice to see Claire NOT completely stressed out while doing a cooking video. Still miss Gourmet Makes though.

She was the reason I watched Bon Apetit in the first place, now i have found her again! I am pretty sure this is what pure bliss feels like. She is a treasure!

I appreciate Claire’s explanations to the purpose behind every step - I got into baking at 12-13 and would often cut corners like melting butter to make cookies come together faster and it took me a long time to understand which corners are important not to cut!

Claire really is such an elite teacher. You can tell she is just so passionate about this stuff and it comes across in the way she wants to make every step so approachable to understand, even if it is quite difficult. I don't even bake, but I feel really fortunate to be able to watch her at work.

BA is literally crying right now 😂 Good job, NYT!

If you've been wanting to make croissants, use this recipe! I've tried Tartine's version 5 or 6 times and have always had issues. Right away this dough was so much easier to work with and all of Claire's little tips (like pushing the dough away instead of pressing as you roll out) made a huge difference. These came out perfectly. Claire has a gift for baking and teaching.

Well im French and i can tell you those taste exactly like the one you will eat in France, we made them and it’s not easy but when it was done we were amazed to taste a corner of my native France! 🇫🇷 Bravo

I just made these for the first time and I’m so amazed at how well they turned out thanks solely to Claire! I printed out the detailed description and followed each step in the video with has as I was making them!

I want to try and make croissants so badly but I feel like it would emotionally devastate me

Starting off with that pronunciation comment - this is the reason I love Claire

My dad (who grew up partly in france) always wanted to make croissants or have homemade croissants, but found the process to intimidating. For fathers day this year I made him homemade croissants (and pain au chocolat/chocolatine), and I would like to say that this video helped a bunch! The croissants ended up delicious and my dad couldn't be happier, and I don't think they would have been able to turn out the same without this video! If anyone out there wants to make these croissants, the main thing I would suggest for their first time would be to start a bit earlier than they would have originally started (before the afternoon) if they want to go to sleep on time!