Recipes for croissants recommend different flours. What's best? Bread flour? All purpose? Some combination? And how can we replicate what's used in France?

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0:00​​ How French flour is different
3:15​​ Experiment - what flours I tested
5:55​​ Taste test
7:15​​ Conclusion

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Excellent explanation of how complicated flour is, and terms explained.

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Incredible treatise of specific qualities of European (Italian) flour.

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Good article on French vs. American flour. "Any baguette that makes the absolute most out of locally available resources can properly lay claim to the title “great”.”

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First-hand testing of French vs. American flour in sourdough. "Volumes could be written on the reasons for the differences between the two flours."

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