What does it take to bake the perfect baguette?
Just steps from the Notre-Dame Cathedral, dozens of France’s top bakers gathered for the 33rd annual Grand Prix de la Baguette de Tradition Française — Paris’s most revered bread competition. Nearly 150 professional bakers delivered their best loaves, each made under strict “baguette de tradition” rules: only flour, water, yeast and salt allowed.
Travel reporter Natalie Compton goes behind the scenes of this uniquely French tradition, where precision, pride and plenty of flour collide. Read more: https://wapo.st/46tIFHT. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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34 Comments
So interesting we are ok touching bread by hand
food safety doesn't seem like a top priority
vanakkam da mapla 🎉
So so many touched it and then they ate it. Nice
Man supplying the pres with your labor would be such an honor
DEI strikes again.
250 grams goes 1.30 euros for the best baguette in france and apparently in the world because they do it best…
In Greece you pay 1.60 euros for 250 grams of the worst quality of baguette 😂😂😂
A lot winners in México after the French gone left such wonderful heritage….instead of large baguette is made an small more individual size…
Where do I sign up to be a judge???😂
How bad does a baguette have to be to be a bad baguette?
Would love to be a mouse there 😂
Sithamparappillai Jegatheepan the 2026 Grand Prix Winner is of Indian descent if not an Indian Immigrant.
love the fact that a brown man won in a blind tasting.
I literally live on the opposite side of the planet but this competition is why I believe my soul must be French.
WP wtf is this? I feel like im watching the travel channel not the news. Jeff Bezos loves being on his knees for trump to the point they have to fill their coverage with foreign bread.
so they have the same ingredients… so they basically nearly all the same
people are not ready to understand that this one, and for the last 5 years, the best bread of Paris has been chosen because it's a political stance, it has nothing to do with bread. Since that bakery was bought by this guy around 2022, all the review are mostly negative compared to the last owner. But y'all aren't ready for this
A black?
Everyone touching the same baguette without washing their hand is crazy
Is it just me or does the crust on those loaves look like it could lacerate my mouth?
great video!
Look at the last shot with the price tag. One fresh baguette is only $1.50. In the US it would $5 😭
Hope they ain't eating those
Le Syndicat des Boulangers-Pâtissiers du Grand Paris
They're normal everyday gay people stop using that horrible F word! 🏳️🌈
The Carb Olympics have begun! (sound of someone breaking a huge breadstick)
They use Zorti Field Technology wirh a scanning tunneling rumbalizer and Wheatstone bridge to nowhere for glutenizationization. 😮
If this was done with blind taste testing and not biased judge's the black people would never win
I love that they're using arm reflectors in the baguettes 😂
Congratulations to the Baker. Competition was never my thing. I never much cared for any Competition dictating specifications on how I should prepare and bake something. I felt many of the rejects they gave away could've been the perfect baguette. That's where we differ!
France has the best bread! I brought a few home and we ate that up quick! The workers at the airport had looked inside my bad as I was chosen for a search. I explained they had the best bread! They laughed and let me be on my way. I wish we had decent bread here in the states, but we don’t, it’s doughy and fast and it has way too many ingredients. I do get an ok sourdough that has 3 ingredients. It’s ok but nothing like France! P.S. I wasn’t picked cuz of my bag of bread though 🙈, it was just random. Best
I really like this format! Great report thank you!
And the winner is someone with rats in his bakery !! (It's real there's a picture on maps)
The winner makes 100 baguettes per day
The number 6 place makes 2000 baguettes per day ? Who is the better baker ?