One dough, two breads in Jamie Oliver's home-baking lesson
A rustic loaf and a pesto-filled skillet bread anchor five uploads, with Sorted Food joining a takeaway-timed pizza challenge.
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How To Make Bread At Home | Jamie Oliver
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- 0:19Tepid water and dried yeast begin the dough; Jamie explains how carbon dioxide creates bread's bubbles.
- 0:58Strong flour and salt go in before fork-mixing gives way to hand-kneading on the counter.
- 3:34The covered dough proves until doubled, then Jamie knocks it back and divides it in half.
- 4:54One half becomes an oblong rustic loaf on a floured baking tray.
- 5:54The other half gets pesto, olives and cheddar, then becomes sliced swirls arranged in a skillet.
- 8:26Both baked breads come out of the oven before Jamie samples the swirls and slices the loaf.
Jamie Oliver divides his risen dough in half, giving beginners a useful choice: keep things simple with a rustic loaf, or roll in pesto, olives and cheddar for something made to pull apart while warm.
"How To Make Bread At Home | Jamie Oliver" was the most-watched of his five new uploads, reaching roughly 167,000 views. Jamie starts with yeast bubbling in tepid water, works the dough by hand and leaves it to double in size. The second half gets rolled, filled and sliced into swirls that prove together in a skillet, almost like savoury Chelsea buns.
The comments have the practical curiosity of people considering a first batch. Viewers ask what strong flour means, how warm the kitchen should be for proving and whether Dutch yeast sachets match British ones. Someone else is already thinking about honey butter on warm bread.
Dough takes a faster route in "Can You Cook Pizza Faster Than A Delivery? | The Tuesday 20". Sorted Food joins Jamie for a cheat's pan pizza using self-raising flour, with pesto tucked into the crust and sabotage interrupting the cooking. A separate teaser helped make pizza a recurring subject across the week.
The newest weekend collection currently draws the most daily views, offering chickpea curry, steak, beef stew, roast chicken and macaroni cheese. A Christmas dessert compilation adds panettone pudding, Arctic roll and mince pie twists with Gennaro Contaldo.
Subscribers held steady, while daily views are running well below Jamie's usual level. Epicurious also had an unchanged subscriber total this week; Nick's Kitchen saw substantial growth. On Jamie's channel, the weekend collection, pizza challenge and bread lesson are doing the most viewing work right now.
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Warm fresh bread with honey butter.....
@WanTuTreeKidd0zSee it on YouTubeWhat is strong flour?
@catherineprime5089See it on YouTubeWhat is the temperature of your kitchen to rest the dough for 1 and half hour. Or at what temperature should be ideal for the dough to rise nicely?
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Did you look at the bubbles?
@giuseppepennisi8699See it on YouTubeDutch packets of dried yeast contain 7 grammes, is that the same as in UK?
@briggitjongmaSee it on YouTubeI always made almost like him wow better then mine . Never knew put on plate without breadpan . Wow good idea . Thanks jamie .
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- Jamie Oliver
- Subscribers
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- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,835,134
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- 5
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- November 8, 2026
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Jamie fills the rolled-out dough with green pesto, sliced olives and chunks of cheddar.


