POV: you work in a bakery kitchen 

Thank you for your thoughts regarding this behind the scenes work. It is true that we have to become disciplined and content in fulfilling many different types of tasks. Some are less glamorous than others, but all are necessary.

Thank you for noticing! Our final products are delightful to our customers and usually take center stage. Seeing the work behind the scenes is meaningful to our team. The reality is that in order to make amazing products many many tasks have to be completed at particular times and with a collaborative effort. There is so much that goes into our production process and each task is equally vital. We are so lucky to have a team that is willing to learn how to enjoy the whole routine, including the less glamorous roles! Brandon joined us when we opened on Shea, and he is kicking butt making things happen for Proof.

Good for you. I am quite certain that you won't leave disappointed 🙏👍

Totally. One of the surprising things to us has been how many micro bakeries have started either alongside our channel or even as a result of being inspired by it. One thing is certain, we all need a lot of help and guidance along the way. Amanda and I want to make a significant part of our efforts in the future to be working with other bakery owners on a consultative basis. We are still trying to figure out what this looks like, and more importantly we are still stabilizing our own organization so that we can devote ourselves even in part to such a venture. A single conversation is great, but ultimately if you are trying to do anything like we have done, it’s far better to be able to connect regularly and even about topics that we may know are important but you may not have seen yet as a newer baker/owner. Stay tuned. When we are ready to make such moves we will make sure this audience knows.

@@ProofBread wow! Thank you so much getting back to me! Yes I have been watching you for a while and I comment from time to time about comming to upstate ny..I wish a place like yours was around here I would be working for u already and learning as much as I can and trying to create my own..but without any type of good mentoring or a degree it can be very difficult what direction to go..i hope to see what your talking about soon! Thank you for teaching me about bread in your own mad scientist way!

Thanks for the feedback! We are experimenting with additional content styles right now to add to our regular (or rather sometimes irregular rhythm of long format videos with Jon). Our videography partners at Paragraphic are bringing some ideas from other successful channels they have built. The best news is we have more bandwidth after years of long hiatuses. The only way to bring new ideas forward is to try them. We do the same thing in the bakery. Sometimes our specials are knock outs. Other times they lack something intangibly essential. Once in awhile our ideas don’t get received the way we intended. I’m happy to be bringing this same creative energy to our RU-vid channel. We have one goal in mind, and that is to improve the overall long term sustainability and vision for the channel. We will not stop shooting our tradition content style, but we will continue to look for ways for the whole of our team to get involved. Thanks for continuing to provide valuable feedback.

@@ProofBread Don't get me wrong. I love this style but less cuts. If you want me to feel like I'm living in the shoes of a baker then it just needs to be mostly an uncut video.

I agree, I also like this style of content, but there are far too many cuts and it disrupts the flow of the video. I find it interesting to see what equipment you use to do various tasks.

ASMR sucks unless it's a dedicated channel. They should just keep their original way of doing videos. They have lost direction I have noticed that from months ago there seemed to be a change in the quality in film and editing in the wrong direction. All they need to do is keep it how it was why the change someone got inside their head ..... This isn't a pile on either. They make great bread I'm sure they have encouraged alot of people to push through and follow their dreams passion They would showand talk about the mistakes they have done in trying out new recipes for new products how things weren't so great and they way they adgust to bring a good product to market. I hope this will be the same with the you tube videos in that they adjust and get something great again Just that I feel they have lost direction. The last series's with the guest master baker from Portugal was spot on I could easily watch more

Yep I agree they also cut short videos so no proof of the end product. All that effort then you don't get to see the end product. They maybe on holidays Apprentices are bored

Hey there, we are currently trying various content styles with the same production team as always, working to feature some different styles of content which is appreciated by various types of viewers. We still have more of our regular content queued up, but this experimentation will allow us to find the styles that our audience enjoys. We appreciate the feedback. This particular video is receiving mixed feedback so far, but it is the first time we have shot a video like this. There are a number of realities we are considering. Our regular content featuring myself (Jon) cannot realistically be shot more than once a month. We have never really been able to shoot more frequently than that. We try to cover a lot of ground when we record, but our prima dry work is to keep our bakery going. This in mind, the channel is rewarded on RU-vid for more frequent posting (another way of putting this is that it is punished algorithmically for the post rate that we have done in the past). Our videography crew has doubled down on their commitment to our partnership and is willing to shoot weekly even from multiple locations We want the rest of our team to be able to participate. You will still see regular uploads like we have done over time, but we will be experimenting and finding new content styles that our audience connects with. The videography team we work with (Paragraphic) has a proven track record of building amazing channels. This is part of the process. Thanks for keeping an open mind, providing honest feedback, and helping us to make this channel into a long term sustainable community and information source with quality content. -Jon

@@ProofBread Jon You do bread well Your videos have been raw. That's what we like no fancy edits or stupid background music track. Just keep it simple your Chanel is a bout proof bakery you don't need to trying to please all anyway your channel.

Please enlighten us with what is new in the world of (checks notes).......yarn?🤔 good ol yarny over here doesn't like the way the channel is going apparently 😂

I'm not against different content styles might be a good idea. It wasn't the content--that idea is a good one--it was the continual bouncing & swinging of the camera that had my head spinning within minutes. I only wish you & Proof the best. I'm just one voice as my old granny used to say "opinions are like noses; everybody has one".