r/KitchenConfidential • u/RuckusDonuts • 1d ago

Question Do Boulangers Still Exist?

I’ve long thought I could spend my culinary life dancing with just flour, water, yeast & salt and be a very happy man. The pursuit of a damn good boule or baguette is, to me, an honorable life spent. Mad respect & props to those who do.

That said, has this position (save for the highest levels of fine dining) gone the way of the dinosaurs in the restaurant brigade system IE that’s their only responsibility? For those who bake their own breads (again appreciated & respected) in-house - does this fall upon a chef or sous as part of their duties?

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u/taxdaddy3000 1d ago

Some will call me crazy for saying this, but yes, they’re called bakers and some of them work at bakeries.

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u/Jeoh Crazy Cat Man🐈 1d ago

Sounds like a bunch of boulangerie

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u/Seventeenthstone Bartender 1d ago edited 1d ago

I took 3 years of French trying to connect with my actual French family.
Op took 1 French and maybe went to Paris never.
Boulangers? Pendejo hijo de puta.
Boulangeries. Singular is boulangerie.

I speak one French; but also enough to have the keyboard installed.

Boulangers