My friend gave me some starter and I was excited to try. Bottom is burned (I used a Dutch oven with silicone liner), but soft and springy inside with a crunchy exterior. Anyone have suggestions on how to improve? Is the crumb shot decent for a first time loaf?
I know my scoring needs some work, and I didn't have rice flour to dust
by Main-Snow3577
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That’s look Fabulous better than my first one that’s for sure, when you take the lid off the Dutch oven put it on the lower shelf under your loaf that will help with burning. Needed a saw for my first one.
My coworker told me yesterday a tip to help with the bottom burning! He said to place a cooking sheet on the rack below the Dutch oven and it won’t scald the bottom!
Looking good, burnt bottom, turn down temp a tick after you place back in the oven or adjust so you have heat from above and below.
I place a pizza stone under my Dutch oven to help with the hard bottom
For a first attempt you done an almighty job, well done.
Beautiful 😍
for a first loaf, absolutely this is amazing!! what recipe did you use? how was your hydration?
also you don’t necessarily need rice flour to dust, I usually just use whatever flour I have on hand and it turns out well
You are off to a great start. If you don’t want the bottom to burn, take it entirely out of the Dutch oven when you take the lid off. If you leave it sitting in the Dutch oven, the heat will be transferring directly into your crust from the steel or iron. If you take it completely out of the Dutch oven and just set it on the rack itself, removing the Dutch oven from your larger oven entirely, then it’s just the ambient heat from the oven that finishes your cooking. That’s what I do because I can’t stand those thick hard crusts.
And you don’t dust with rice flour. The purpose of the rice flour is because it won’t form a sticky glue that will stick your dough to your banetton or whatever you’re using for a proofing basket. If you don’t have any rice flour that’s fine. But you don’t need to sprinkle it on after you’ve taken the dough out of the proofing basket
https://preview.redd.it/lyai7uh319md1.jpeg?width=1206&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=696f42ff0371eba9cd2fd77ae508d18b2e3d0939
definitely better than my first attempt.
I put a big piece of aluminum foil folded in 3 in the bottom of my DO. The cookie sheet on the rack below never helped my burned bottoms much