Pat Steinbach - Electric Bakery

Ofer Steinbach, grandson of the founder of Fat Bakery in Haifa, has returned to his roots. ## Introducing "Fat Steinbach - Electric Bakery" - a boutique bakery of original sourdough breads

Yoram Mark-Reich
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_{Photos: Eli Degani}

Let's start from the beginning. A little history: The Fett family owned bakeries and baked many generations in Poland. In the 1920s, upon her immigration to Israel, she established two bakeries in Haifa - in the Hadar neighborhood and in the Histadrut Sderot (which employed over 40 employees), which operated from 1922 - 1953. In those years, the family also established the Pat Confectionery in Jerusalem, which contained a large slick during the underground.

And let's get to the present. Ofer Steinbach, the grandson of Father Fat, founder of Fat Bakers, has returned to his roots. Ofer, 49, who has a degree in architecture, always loved to cook and as a scion for generations of bakers, was also attracted to baking. Pickles began baking 11 years ago, and after returning to his hometown, Haifa, and the pace of orders increased, he decided to open a real bakery. This is how she founded the bakery Bakery Stinbach - Electric Bakery, where she bakes a rich variety of original and special sourdough breads, without yeast and without industrial materials. The breads are mainly baked from whole flour and finely ground with coarse tahini, using wheat, spelled or rye flour.

"One day my mother and I looked at old pictures. Among them, I found a picture of my grandfather standing by his car bread, and on the car it says 'A. Electric Bakery Muffin.' My mother said that Grandpa was very proud of the electric mixer he already had in the 1920s. Previously, I was excited and decided to call my mafia - 'electric bakery'. I order the special flours from 'Ai's Big Mills', the same flour mill my grandfather bought! "

He designed the mafia with a nostalgic aroma: pictures and historical items of the Fat family on the walls. On the shelves - old wooden and enamel crates and home bread bread machines. The breads are elegantly displayed in the breadboxes he built himself.

Steinbach, who developed the recipes, also gave each bread its own special name:
Totem Bread - A unique bread baked in a cylindrical