Dean Brettschneider has been involved
in several TV programmes in his capacity as international baker,
pattisier and judge.
Chelsea New Zealand's Hottest
Home Baker
The
hit series that celebrates New Zealand's love affair with
home baking returns to our screen this week!
They may be the best in their own kitchen, but are they the best in the nation? Chelsea
New Zealand’s Hottest Home Baker, TV3’s popular baking contest is back and sweeter than ever! It returns to our screens with tougher challenges, new contestants and a new judge, who believes that baking is not simply an art but a science.
Hosted by Colin Mathura-Jeffree, the series features amateur bakers from across New Zealand competing each week in challenges which test taste, innovation and presentation. Looking on are our expert judges - international baker and pâtissier, Dean
Brettschneider and food scientist Julia
Crownshaw, co-creator and owner of award-winning Dollop
Puddings.
Each week the finalists face themed challenges and this year we’re mixing it up by looking for expert finesse just as much as brilliant basic skills. Can the finalists get their bread to rise perfectly? Will their signature dishes take the cake?Will the puddings challenge be bitter-sweet for all?
From adapting judges’ recipes to making up their own, each episode holds a fresh and delicious challenge testing the contestants’ versatility and composure while baking against the clock.
Watch each week as the pressure builds and the cookies begin to crumble, to see who the judges will vote as the ‘best baker’ for the week – and who will be asked pack up their wooden spoons and head home.
Only one can win the much coveted title of Chelsea New Zealand’s
Hottest Home Baker. They take home: a baker’s trip of a lifetime
to Singapore, compliments of Mondo Travel, flying Singapore
airlines, staying at the Park Royal Hotel and training under
judge Dean Brettschneider at his artisan eatery, Baker & Cook;
a brand new kitchen from Kitchen Mania with a Mico sink and
tap-ware; appliances from Fisher & Paykel and Breville; bake-ware
from Stevens; and a selection of Chelsea Sugar products.
Chelsea New Zealand's Hottest Home Baker: See it on TV3 & Food TV.
New
Zealand's Hottest Home Baker - THE BOOK: Following
on from the top-rating and highly successful television programme, and
coinciding with the launch of the second series on TV3, comes the book
of the series, New Zealand's Hottest Home Baker,
with Dean Brettschneider. Dean shares his golden rules of baking
to bring the home baker a range of accessible and inspirational recipes
from the eight contestants featured in the first series, and inspire them
in their own kitchens.
In
this first series, presented by former BBC broadcaster Douglas
Mounce, the world renowned Global Baker, Dean Brettschneider brings
his own special style of new world baking to Cornwall. Touring the county
in a luxury American Motorhome (RV) complete with fully equipped kitchen,
Dean demonstrates how to make some truly mouth watering recipes that are
inspired by the people and places he visits in Cornwall.
The
National Trust’s magnificent Lanhydrock House near Bodmin
provides the first venue in the series, showcasing some of the property’s
19th century splendour, including its extraordinary kitchen and
sumptuous dining room. In the RV, Dean puts his own spin on the French
inspired food that was favoured by Lanhydrock’s Victorian owners and National
Trust staff give their verdict on Dean’s creations
TheAmerican
Motorhome Cookery Roadshow, UK Sky digital 166 & freesat
402 (Information TV)
Coinciding
with the October launch of Dean's seventh book, The
Cook & The Baker, a TV show of the same name
debuted on New Zealand's Food TV,with Global Baker Dean Brettschneider
and Mark McDonough of Newmarket’s Zarbo Deli and Café.
Both chefs have several successful cookbooks behind them, and now for the
first time, as a result of their team-up in Mark's Newmarket business (Zarbo
Deli and Café) they have joined forces in this all new show. With
an appetising collection of amazing breads, entrees, mains, desserts, cakes,
cookies and pastries, each recipe is crammed full of flavour and colour
and utilises the freshest possible ingredients. From everyday meals to
special occasions, there are recipes here to suit every palate!
The
Cook and The Baker will take viewers behind the scenes of
the making of the cookbook, including food preparation, food styling, photography
and the stories behind each recipe.
News: Kiwi Baker in Singapore, Coming
soon on FoodTV
During May a TV crew from Media Works will be on-site at Baker & Cook,
the artisan bakery and foodstore that I recently opened in Singapore,
filming some great behind-the-scenes footage of for my latest
TV Series called "Kiwi Baker in Singapore".
The series is finally coming together and we will be serving up my twists on
the local ethnic baking styles of Singapore, so expect some magic
and
new approaches to 'New World Baking'.
Kiwi
Baker in Shanghai, Sunday 2nd October 2011, FoodTV
Dean returns in a brand new show Kiwi Baker In Shanghai with
anecdotal recollections of his colourful experiences in Shanghai, blending
age old Chinese cooking wisdom and lessons learnt at his mother’s apron
strings.
With several successful cook-books under his belt and having
featured as lead judge on NZ's Hottest Home Baker,
Dean demonstrates a collection of delectable dishes that
have shaped his micro bakeries in Shanghai and around the
world into the success stories they are today.
Based
on his new book, New World Baking: My Time In Shanghai Dean,
arguably one of the world’s best bakers, opens his heart and his pantry
to share invaluable insights and innovations!
And look out each week for recipes from the series, exclusively on foodtv.co.nz
Each week the finalists face themed challenges and this year we’re mixing it up by looking for expert finesse just as much as brilliant basic skills. Can the finalists get their bread to rise perfectly? Will their signature dishes take the cake?Will the puddings challenge be bitter-sweet for all?
New
Zealand's Hottest Home Baker - THE BOOK: Following
on from the top-rating and highly successful television programme, and
coinciding with the launch of the second series on TV3, comes the book
of the series, 
