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Sourdough baking

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We're moving in a few weeks, so I'm in a baking frenzy making stuff for people who have/are/will be helping out

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[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I'd be psyched. Need any extra hands? I'm not much for moving stuff but I'll remind you to be careful every few minutes.

[–] WinterSunshine@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

That looks delicious.

[–] frankenswine@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

sourdough only recipe? these loafs look rad! what's your secret? and how do they look on the inside?

[–] sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I think the secret is baking a fuckton of bread over the past few years. That and the Challenger bread pan, that genuinely upped the appearance and crust texture of my loaves

[–] sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, just sourdough, it's the tartine country loaf.

These were a mega-batch, so the ingredients were as follows:

1900g king arthur all purpose 200g whole wheat 600g pretty active, but fridge-cold starter 1400ish grams of water

Autolyse like 20 minutes? Then add 42g table salt mixed with 60ish grams water.

Folded like three or four times over a couple hours, total bulk ferment was maybe 4 hours?

Then I started baking first thing next morning, equating to roughly 18 hours in the fridge

[–] sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Made a grilled cheese, the cross section is passable

[–] desGroles@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Good luck with the move! Hope you've made a stiff version of your starter for the move so that it can handle a bit of abuse in the transition.

[–] sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Honestly I'm probably just gonna wash the bowl out and pack it. I'm not uptight about my starter, I've killed and restarted mine at least 20-30 times, and I don't subscribe to the almost mythological status people associate with old starters.

The microbiome is going to adjust to the way you treat it, what you feed out, and (to a much lesser degree) where it is. It doesn't fucking matter that 100,000,000 generations ago the yeast was French lol

[–] desGroles@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Very nice Sneekee, a beautiful batch indeed.