Feel like I’ve been progressing in my sourdough baking and I am ready for some second opinions on the loaf and things I might improve! Thoughts on the crumb?

by Ok-Geologist-4694

6 Comments

  1. Ok-Geologist-4694

    Recipe:

    700 g flour (500 bread flour, 100 whole wheat, 100 rye)
    525g water 84 deg (75%)
    140g starter
    14g salt

    1 hr autolyse

    Add starter and salt, then Over next hour, basic kneading/stretch and fold/lamination every 15 min

    Divide dough and preshape

    Bulk fermentation until aliquot doubles (for me this took 6-7 hrs), coil folds every hour 3 times

    Shape into boule

    Cold retard 48 hrs for this loaf

    Preheat oven 500 deg for 45 min with Dutch oven inside.

    Score bread, lay on parchment, and add to Dutch oven, stick four out five ice cubes outside parchment paper, and spray with water.

    Bake 20 min with lid on, reduce to 450 deg and bake with lid off for 40 min.

  2. I looovee your pattern! How do you keep your cuts so even?

  3. Everything looks good to me! I just prefer a bit more of an oven spring but then again that bread looks pretty huge so it might be deceptive on how it looks. I’m guessing it’s at least 1000g+ dough before the bake.

  4. Green_In_Vienna

    That’s a beautiful loaf. Your scoring is lovely!

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