Gallery: How Do You Bake a Bread Balloon? With a 1,000-Degree Blast of Air

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    Blow Dough lab is part performance art and part catering event, during which visitors bake crispy bread bubbles filled with herbal scents.
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    “It’s very weird,” says Omer Polak, one of the creators, “because it’s crispy, but when you bite it, it’s nothing, just smells.”
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    To create the balloons, the “baker” puts a slab of dough over a container of herbs and an industrial blower, which emits a blast of 1,000-degree heat.
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    This does three things: bakes the dough, inflates the dough into a balloon of bread, and transfers the herb odors inside the bread, creating an aromatic air pocket.
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    The scents include fresh garlic, lemons, cumin, rosemary, black tea, and sumac
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    It’s like the opposite of Soylent: a delight to the senses without the nutrition.
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