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Hour 20®
A family bakehouse in El Monte, California
Hour 20 began at a friend’s dinner table, when one bite of Jasmine’s sourdough would not let go of Lia. Today our loaves rise for twenty hours and more in a licensed bakehouse, shaped by hand before dawn and baked in German stone-deck ovens.
Founded by three mothers with ten children between us, we hold one rule above the rest: if a third-grader can’t read the ingredient list, we don’t bake with it.
Every loaf is baked to one hundred percent, frozen at its peak, and carried overnight to your door — so what you reheat is the exact moment it left the oven.
Savoir-faire
Twenty hours, three ingredients
Flour, water, salt — and the hour count we are named for. Three ingredients, and not one shortcut hiding behind them.
Every rise begins with levains we raise ourselves: living cultures born from flour and water on our own counter, fed by hand every day. We have never used commercial yeast — the wild cultures do the slow work, and the flavor is theirs.
Then comes the long, cold ferment. When each loaf is ready is a baker’s call, made by eye and by hand — the clock never decides.
From our kitchen
Get the breadsWith milk bread
Fruit cream sando
Hokkaido milk bread, whipped cream, strawberries and grapes — the fruit sandwich our kids vote for.
With milk bread
Molten croque
Ham and cheese between thick slices, baked until the cheese can’t hold itself together.
With pretzel sticks
Whipped avocado dip
Black-sesame pretzel sticks and a bowl of smashed avocado — the lunchbox trick.
With hemp toast
Raspberry yogurt toast
Thick-cut hemp wheat toast, cold yogurt, a pile of raspberries — five-minute breakfast.
With ciabatta
The lunch ciabatta
Crispy outside, soft inside — split, stacked with ham, cheese and arugula. Sometimes all a table needs is good bread.
With multigrain
Avocado & ham tartine
Six-seed sourdough under sliced avocado, ham and cracked pepper — every bite a different texture.
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The crust crackles like it should
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My kids ask for this toast
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Better than my sourdough phase
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Arrived next morning, still fragrant
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Restaurants, cafés, hotels, fine grocers — bring slow-fermented Hour 20 bread to your tables. Wholesale pricing and standing orders available.
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Slow-fermented 20 hours, baked overnight
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The 20th hour
Raised on our own wild cultures in El Monte, California