What makes a real French croissant?

Croissants are a staple in French pastry. A fresh coffee and a croissant create the perfect breakfast combination. So, how are perfect French croissants made? How did they become so popular in France, and how were they invented in the first place? Legend has it that the croissant wasn't even invented in France. To answer these questions, we went to Paris, France, and visited a classic boulangerie - a French bakery - to find out.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:55 The dough
01:37 Layers of butter
02:41 The shape
03:38 History of the croissant
04:22 The perfect croissant
05:12 How to eat croissants
CREDITS
Report: Katja Liersch
Camera: Nicolas Grimard
Edit: Benoît Lebec
Supervising editor: Ruben Kalus
#croissants #france #baking
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[@AnythingEverywhere12]

Pretending elegant influencers: Do not dunk your croissant into your coffee 😐😐😐 French: 😜😜😜😋😋😋

[@fow7139]

Only few french people do that and it's mostly old people

[@sonodiventataunalbero5576]

​@@fow7139I don't care if you call me old. It's delicious 😋

[@Alaskan-Armadillo]

@@fow7139 I hear that the fad of dunking your croissant in coffee is dying out with the older generation where now young people struggle to understand the correlation between coffee and croissants causing them to go extinct.

[@belle6478]

Dans le chocolat chaud le matin 🥵

[@redblueplayer221]

I'm more of a croissant in hot chocolate guy too But ye dipping croissants is a great experience

[@pete5534]

Croissant is far and away my favourite pastry. These definitely look the part - terrific.

[@jampasurprenant1794]

The French croissant definitely looks good and looks delicious.

[@bob2000by]

I remember the smell of morning Paris when moving next to the bakery. I was instantly hungry and the air was smelling of croissants and baguette.

[@AndyCutright]

Butter. More Butter. Butter. And then more butter. Also more butter. Butter? Yes. More butter. Oh, butter.

[@user-dz1rc4wk2t]

I was thinking st all that butter ×6 at least, those are snack size, also adding cheesecake filling would be magnificent

[@elnono6]

Who would have thought that it was common to see croissants made with margarine in France...I will have to pay attention next time.

[@Lea_5584]

Croissant are soooo delicious 😋 😍

[@qkwnwkw]

So in France, Adrian is spelt as A-D-R-I-E-N. *Mind Blown* 😱

[@cwg73160]

You shouldn’t say the same thing to anyone you know.

[@qkwnwkw]

@@cwg73160 🤔

[@cwg73160]

@@qkwnwkw You good? Again, don’t let your friends know you’re incompetent.

[@qkwnwkw]

@@cwg73160 No you're right. But I did let your wife know the sex with her the other night was fantastic. 😃👍

[@RaymondHng]

@@qkwnwkw American actress *Adrienne Barbeau*

[@angmurphy1706]

Wow os amazing! Is my favorite😍

[@YawmiyateFarah7]

Miam miam. I love french croissant

[@froglegs4910]

Love croissants for Life 🧬😋❤

[@abvll5049]

Artist

[@jackjhmc820]

in hong kong, some shops are making croissant with a dozen different fillings in them, chocolates, egg york, strawberry etc

[@JohnSmith-en6ev]

And? They will never compare to the authentic French ones

[@Kirabulldogmix]

Amazing 😍I need eat them 😋

[@upekhanppd]

Through the spelling is bit difficult I like this Bakery item ( croissant) very much. If anyone wish to eat it should go to a reputed outlet belong to reputed company . Not the quantity the quality is there.

[@joemuiga7394]

I will try it one day, even if its for breakfast.

[@Continentalmunkey88]

5:17 State, trying to keep its French pronounciation intact within US geological survey

[@themutekiununbi4932]

French Croissant au beur is the best. I watched one one KZbin about a famous Japanese baker making French croissant and he could only achieve 18 layers, may I ask if you know how many layers, Adrien Ozaneaux’s croissants have. Merci beaucoup.

[@smarteveryday1606]

i love it

[@armandalikaj]

Butter The secret of every French dish

[@rosenamuyaba-pi5rd]

Wawuuuuuuu I love that

[@kendrickjacocks8595]

Croissants are still quite delicious and flavorful in Austria. I was in Vienna. What a nice flavor, even from a bargain grocery store.

[@julienmarie_personal]

The shape of the croissant comes from Vienna but not the recipe. It was just a little bread. It's only in Paris than it became a pastry, using lamination.

[@napoleonsdauphin]

indeed, Vienna is really the home of the precursor to the croissant, which lives on as the Kipferl or Briochekipferl. Not laminated, though still quite good and also only really eaten at breakfast (they go stale very quickly).

[@CelesteAya]

It’s the kipferl who is Austrian, the modern croissant that everyone know is French, Created by Sylvain Claudius Goy in 1915.

[@anwerabdallah569]

ما احلا الكورواسانت في الصباح مع كافيه لاتيه زياده سكر. احلا افطار

[@moh6296]

Assalamualaikum ya hamar 🐴

[@vieuxgars]

Très appétissant mais dommage le lune de miel, pas d'appiculteur dans les environs ? ;)

[@kaypuichun1746]

❤

[@neilsolomon9149]

I’m Lebanese, I love France. ❤️

[@phallyun5751]

Interesting

[@YanYanYanYan]

KWA-SONG 🥐

[@minuteman4199]

Bakeries in Canada make croissants, they're no where near as good and about 4 times the price.

[@pieronievesttte]

The best quason

[@Kids11111]

*kwason

[@hitp0int]

Luis told us all about croissants

[@nikolaivista920]

Croissant bread originated in Austria. Got to give props to the French for perfecting the Croissant bread! Just like with Rock music originating in America, but the British just made it better!

[@BestInsider]

Those sandwiches look so delicious

[@rodrigo-andresedelstam9131]

Where is this bakery? Address in Paris?

[@natsukashiiohayo1150]

Aux Délices d'Epinay 14 Grande Rue, 91360 Épinay-sur-Orge, France Almost 30 minutes from Paris

[@rodrigo-andresedelstam9131]

Thank you!@@natsukashiiohayo1150

[@tanthiennguyen9308]

Perfektes Backerman

[@Martin_Priesthood]

🤤😋👍😎

[@YESHUA_byRaynal]

Is this a croissant? Hmmm, pleasure to meet you Croissant. The French must have been inspired by sea shells to make Croissant.

[@YESHUA_byRaynal]

The Austrian was inspired.

[@tanhtran8192]

👍🤪

[@jsilv-radesky3023]

Croissant at Costco, not too bad.

[@22tango79]

¡Holy shyster, have a little dough with your butter!

[@roxanaveronicapleytezescob8211]

Que delicia y yo AKI sin Aver cenado

[@daneurope9167]

Lidl croissantis not bad ..cost 49 cent euro..the best n europe..

[@ferrjuan]

Croissant

[@northindian344]

It looks like a 🐌 snail 😊

[@tedcleveland8488]

Actually there is many countries have a best croissant than France. Btw France bakery are not like what it used to be (loaded with sugar and blend butter) especially in Paris probably because of tourism attraction and many bakery actually doesn’t make their own croissant anymore instead ordered from mass produced baked goods factory.

[@Lordoftherings283]

The story of this food called croissant dates back to the tragic defeat during the Ottoman siege of Vienna.

[@Continentalmunkey88]

4:11 < no no no no no no no no no>

[@senzosanjuro1769]

If it has not the shape of a crescent moon that's not a 'croissant', why not to make donuts in line and let's say it's a donut 🙃

[@___beyondhorizon4664]

You have to try to bite into the layers of the pastry, I don't eat donuts 🍩, it's too sweet

[@user-xt6nu1up2s]

Француз так мило в конце кушал круассан. Дай бог ему здоровья. Человек получал удовольствие от еды.

[@onoono1047]

If it bring by ottoman(kingdom) during the war and celebrate the war victory by austria, it's means origin from ottoman is't it? And bring by queen from austria does't mean from austria. Little confiusing

[@peterm7548]

A lot of dairy fat and flour! Tastes great but often results in indigestion! I prefer some baguette with butter and jam!

[@Ivxnrxjxs]

The important question is: is it dunkable?

[@iparipaitegianiparipaitegi4643]

Of course

[@Ivxnrxjxs]

@@iparipaitegianiparipaitegi4643 Good.

[@eduardojay749]

Yea, at the end of the video, he dunk it into coffee.

[@jerometrio2603]

He didn't shape it like a crescent moon.

[@worldisbeautiful7262]

Flour. You are welcome

[@AnilKumar-ck8iz]

Veg puff(Pattis) are the croissant of india, Period.

[@MartinMartin-yi9to]

Butter. But this country is so poor that they took out the butter from the croissant.

[@billyfaizzaly]

I call bullcrap to that lady's comment at the end.

[@user-cy2nf9jh4d]

God very god

[@silvertongue3003]

Why am I watching this 😢

[@grahamstubbs4962]

0:09 Why does that croissant look General De Gaulle? You cheeky German sods.

[@yusidrus5216]

"High quality ingredient" ..... that make me feel poor.I can only afford fresh but cheap ingredient😊 I am not French,but that is the 1st time I saw someone dip croissant into coffee😮

[@Panster7]

Croissant sold like hotcakes 😂

[@supersmart671]

Smells the Crossisants touches with his the nose then back...😢😢😢

[@jorge86rodriguez]

quason

[@AgentAO7]

Everything tastes better with butter.. 😋

[@kevinfed668]

Butter also causes gallbladder disease

[@pomekat]

The subtitles have probably the worst translations I've ever witnessed

[@oa2256]

So it's practically Turkish, right?

[@rionesenobi9563]

french violates every single rule in the english language o_o

[@toyotamarshall]

They don't come from france they come from Austria

[@solarwinds-]

I really hate reading subtitles - almost as much as I love croissants.

[@mateuszbak8501]

why is the translation so bad

[@Zora3y]

Artificial English and Artificial French

[@JS-kv7mx]

Amazing: The German Government pays to educate the English speaking world on French pastry. ??? Ils sont fous les Allemands.

[@FlavourFool]

Why is a German pronouncing 'croissant' like an American?

[@Kids11111]

Because this is an English language video?

[@FlavourFool]

@@Kids11111 We say the French pronunciation in England.

[@Kids11111]

@@FlavourFool in American English they use the American pronunciation.

[@Sam_Ardern_II]

Because English is a Germanic Language

[@Continentalmunkey88]

Quebec, important because France tired of Europe and aasia is not relaxing

[@adriennash7326]

We have banana croissant here in Indonesia. It's fckng disgusting. 🤮

[@parker4406]

Since when are croissants french? if they are 'french', what do the french call shops that sell croissants?

[@pjacobsen1000]

They call them boulangerie, which is French for bakery.

[@parker4406]

@@pjacobsen1000 but not vienoissoire?

[@pjacobsen1000]

@@parker4406 It's like Danish Pastry. It's not really from Denmark but also from Vienna. But most people would still say it's Danish.

[@parker4406]

@@pjacobsen1000like french fries perhaps?

[@pjacobsen1000]

@@parker4406 Exactly

[@simonstergaard]

i dont like crumbling pastry.

[@onurozdemir3656]

İsveçli gelir köfteyi alır, Fransız kruvasanı alır, Yunan gelir baklavayı alır... dünyayı beslemişiz be, dünyayı!

[@Jamirio]

Croissant türk değil

[@onurozdemir3656]

@@Jamirio izlemediğin şeye yorum yazma yarrağm!

[@VolvicCitron]

The origin of croissant is austrian you silly turkish

[@DWFood]

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