This baker makes the best baguette in Paris, he reveals some secrets

Yohann Tritz, edited by Gauthier Delomez 8:32 p.m., November 30, 2022

This is the cocorico of the day!

While the France team lost in the World Cup against Tunisia, one of the emblems of France, the baguette, was listed this Wednesday as an intangible heritage of humanity by Unesco.

Something to delight the country's bakers, and in particular Frédéric Comyn, who manages an establishment located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris and which supplies the Élysée Palace.

His bakery also won the title of the best baguette in the capital this year.

"We can't say everything!"

This baguette champion knows all the secrets.

"To make the best baguette, you already need a lot of patience, time. Between the start when we knead and the end when we bake, 48 hours ago", explains Frédéric Comyn at the microphone of Europe 1, who adds that 'we also need "a selection of the greatest raw materials".

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However, the manager wants to keep the mystery.

"There's a little thing we don't say, we can't say everything about it!", smiles the Parisian baker.

"People want to taste the same bread as the president"

His wand, secret therefore, remains very popular.

"We deliver to the Élysée Palace, so people want to taste the same bread as the president", confides Frédéric Comyn.

The lucky ones love it.

For this customer met by Europe 1, it is "absolutely" the best baguette in Paris.

"Very crunchy, a little crumb, not too much", describes this regular.

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Be careful all the same, this baguette is not to be eaten just anyhow, warns the baker who gives his advice.

"I prefer well-baked bread. All the aroma, the aromatic bouquet, arrives according to the cooking. The more you push the cooking, the better it tastes", he underlines.

Before leaving the Europe 1 reporter to taste a piece of this award-winning baguette in Paris.