• Fig, Olive Oil and Sea Salt Challah This is, with minor modifications, the recipe I use most—sans the figs.
• Sweet Challah This is an excellent 3-cup recipe.
• How to Shape Your Challah Like a True Work of Art
• lechlechallah Braiding stories and interpretation into challah
• Inside the Jewish Bakery: Recipes and Memories from the Golden Age of Jewish Baking, by Stanley Ginsberg and Norman Berg
• A brief history of challah, excerpted from Inside the Jewish Bakery.
• The Ultimate Challah Baking Guide Great challah baking tips.
• The "Best Challah" according to Kitchn.
• Challah Hacks for the Busy Parent by Kveller

 
Good Reads

• Our Braided Bread by Benjamin DuBow
• Challah Stories and Essays (from Chabad)

Videos

Note: there are a lot of six-braid instructions on the web, most of which are incomprehensible. Try clicking on the links below first:

Yesh Six-braid technique a la Rivka Malka
 
Rivka Malka

• Adorable, spiritual, frum woman makes challah a spiritual experience
• Really good 6-braid instructions (“2nd one over, 1st one in the middle”)

Esty Wolbe has a slight variation of the 6-braid technique I used to use--very well demonstrated at the  10:01 mark of her video. Also check out 2 brilliant strategies I picked up from this video at 11:47 and 14:52!!! I haven't tried her basic recipe mostly because I rarely need to make 6 or more challahs at a time.

Dovber Berkowitz Slo-mo six-braid (to the tune of Let It Be!) —skip the first minute!
 
Leah She’s a pro.

• Part 1 mixing dough
• Part 2 shaping challah rolls
• Part 4 braiding 4 & 6 strands

 
Jamie Geller Oy, just watch her!
 
Titli Nihaan She’s a real hoot!—amazing braiding instructions—3,4,5,6,7,8,9 braids.
 
Extraordinary Israeli braider! You gotta see it to believe it!

 A Different 6-braid Sprechen Sie Deutsch?

The Double-decker Celebration Challah

Joshua Weissman Another dude, another challah.

Braided Windsor Knot Pretty trippy!

Nutella star I do 12 cuts, not 16, creates a six point star. (Either my basic challah recipe or Leah's babka dough--with her chocolate filling-- work well for this.)

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