This must be a non-American thing because outside of being raw dough or burnt, I’ve never once had to clarify how cooked I’d like my bread.
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As a non-American I have no idea what OP is talking about.
Yeah, I'm french, I just assumed it was the same everywere.
As a bread enjoyer, I'm intrigued. Would you like to elaborate a bit? All I can find is different types of bread (like different flour, shape etc.).
Even for a given kind of bread of the same recipe from the same bakery, there'll be variations on how baked it is depending on how long it was in the oven or even within a given batch depending on it's position in the oven. And some people have their preferences in that regard. Several times I've hear people in bakeries (in France) asking for a baguette "bien cuite" ("well cooked/baked") or "pas trop cuite" ("not too cooked/baked"). I guess my mistake was assuming this happened in bakeries of every countries...
So is cooked a translation thing?
Yeah, kinda. The verb "cuire" in French refers to the action of transmitting heat to an aliment (usually with an oven) in order to alter it as part of the cooking process. It's the same word whether you're talking about meat or dough, so it would be the same phrase to say a steak or a baguette is too cooked. That's why I didn't think of using a dough-specific word.
North America doesn't have a bread culture like much of Europe does, and it's sad.
Just what I was thinking. I don’t think I even have a proper bread making bakery in my town. I wish I could be in the culture that this comment is from.
Where I am you can buy part-baked bread and "well fired" rolls.
I've never heard bread referred to as "cooked" in my entire life. Baked, yes.
You’re telling me you’ve been eating dough this whole time?
Next you'll tell me it's just flour yeast eggs milk and salt, has the whole world gone mad? 🍞 🤪
Most bakery bread doesn't even include eggs milk and salt
Bread is just flour, water, yeast and salt (you really need the salt). If it has anything else, you're either being sold something fancy or some industrial crap.
Baking is just one type of cooking.
Op being French is the only kind of context that could make this post make sense.
Yes, I am.
Wut.
I'm super confused.
Is there a reason you're saying cooked rather than baked?
Even swapping cooked for baked I'm still confused.
Just an error (not my first language, sorry)
I heard somewhere that one time there was an Asian lady that didn't know the word 'toast', so while at a restaurant part of her order was 'bread, medium rare' LOL!
Hey, lacking the right word, it does at least make sense when you think about it for a moment.
Overthinking.
Do not do it.
But these bread buns are hot and need glazing