Nadya Denisenko
Nadya Denisenko in chef's whites and toque at the École Ducasse.

Baker, Amsterdam

Nadya Denisenko

Twelve months of bread, laminated dough and the notes behind each bake. Trained in bread and viennoiserie at the ENSP Ecole Ducasse; baking daily since.

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Long ferments, small batches, the same loaf until it is right.

Bread and viennoiserie baked at home on a two-day schedule, documented bake by bake.

Selected work

Nadya Denisenko at the bench behind a table of viennoiserie.

About

I bake bread on a two-day schedule out of a home kitchen, mostly naturally leavened, mostly the same handful of formulas until they behave the way I want them to. A miche baked once tells you very little; the same miche baked forty times tells you what the flour does in July, what an hour of extra bulk costs you, and how far a levain can drift before the crumb goes tight.

Alongside bread I work through viennoiserie — laminated doughs, enriched doughs, the occasional praline babka — because lamination punishes sloppy temperature control and I would rather learn that at home than on a service.

Every bake here is logged: formula, timings, ambient temperature, what I would change. The photographs are the results; the notes are the reason I keep them.

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Open to bakery work, stages and collaborations.