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The Bread Boy

While I was interviewing a restaurant for a video, I met a guy named Jose. He stood out to me because he loved to bake. His passion for baking lead him to earning a job baking a variety of different breads for local restaurants and food trucks. He has taken of the role of bread boy at his current job.

“I don’t know who came up with the name but I like it,” said Jose.

He said that we wakes up around dawn to head to work and start making the bread at the restaurant.

“He has to make bread for about a dozen different restaurants and vendor,” said his boss Sam. “He feels like pressure to be on time and ready to go.”

One of his favorite breads to make accompanies the delicious Sonora Hotdog for a few local food trucks. A Sonoran dog is a Mexican style hotdog fixed with a variety of different toppings such as chile beans, salsa, guacamole, green peppers, etc.

“I really enjoy eating the Sonoran dogs especially from the ones I deliver bread to. My family does too,” he said.

Jose has been baking for several years. He said he wasn’t interested in it until he got a job working at Marylins. He worked his way up to making bread and decided to stay doing it.

“It’s fun,” he said while laughing. “I think I bake more than my mother does.Oh dios mio” (which means oh my gosh in Spanish).

Jose was glad to share a delicious recipe to accompany your next Sinaloa dog or any hotdog. He didn’t have his own recipe at first but over the years he adjusted to using only one instead of a different one for each vendor.

The ingredients are:

 To begin, Jose combines the lukewarm milk, egg, butter, sugar, bread flour, potato flakes, salt and yeast in a mixing machine. When doing this at home you can use any standard mixer. Mix the dough on low for 8-10 minutes. It should be smooth and elastic. You should let the dough rest for 1-2 hours. Take the dough out of the mixer and cover it on a pan with a towel.
Next:
  • He places parchment paper on his baking sheets.
  • Divide dough into 3 equally sized pieces and form into logs.
  • Divide each log into 5 equal pieces for standard sized rolls.
  • Make each piece out into an oval.
  • Press an indentation down the length of the center of the oval with the side of your hand.
  • Roll the dough up around the indentation.
  • Transfer to the baking sheet
  • Leaving the dough about 1 inch apart, and let rise for about thirty minutes
  • Preheat oven to 375°F.
  • Brush the dough with buttermilk.
  • Bake for 18-22 minutes
  • Let the bread cool for a few minutes
  • Make a slice down the center of the top of the roll nearly through to the bottom.
  • Then open the bread to put a hotdog inside.

Jose randomly chooses a bread to taste and assure that it is up to par.

“He always finds ways to make his job fun and easy,” said Sam. “He is a joy to be around.”

Jose sometimes delivers the bread personally to the different vendors.

“I love seeing their faces when I arrive with the bread. It makes my job good.”

This recipe was the first that Jose mastered. He practiced everyday and after a few weeks, he no longer had to read it off of a piece of paper. He said he will never eat a prepackaged hot dog bun again. “Fresh is the way to go,” he said.

The ingriedients for this recipe can be found in most pantries becasue they are typical everyday cooking items. So why buy bread when it is so simple and easy to make. It will compliment any hotdog nicely.