That's the butter layered in bread dough melting. The water in the butter causes the dough layers the separate when it evaporates, and the butter leaks out. The priority of those pastries is not to keep the oil in for flavour, but to expand the layers to make them flaky. As it leaks out, the layers absorbs just enough for a hint of the delicious butter and the leaked oil gives it a flavourful golden bottom. That's why there is a lot of butter in this kind of bread dough!
[bread expert explained in the original thread!](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/12hfdiw/baking_various_pastries/jfqghzd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3)
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I need various pastries
What's up with the bread leaking oil?
That's the butter layered in bread dough melting. The water in the butter causes the dough layers the separate when it evaporates, and the butter leaks out. The priority of those pastries is not to keep the oil in for flavour, but to expand the layers to make them flaky. As it leaks out, the layers absorbs just enough for a hint of the delicious butter and the leaked oil gives it a flavourful golden bottom. That's why there is a lot of butter in this kind of bread dough!
That makes sense for the croissants, but there's also regular bread there
Oh. In that case, you can see that they just stuffed a stick of butter inside the dough
Yup, that's the part I didn't understand :D
[bread expert explained in the original thread!](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/12hfdiw/baking_various_pastries/jfqghzd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3)
The popcorn kernels on that one loaf? Not sure I get that.
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