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uhsguy  ·  1490 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Long Awaited Loaf Appears...

I use a scale, 450g flour to 300 water to 60ish of 100% hydration whole wheat starter. Rise for 4-8 hrs fridge overnight shape let it sit for an hour while the oven preheats to 500 then bake 20 covered 20 uncovered for crust

Idk if you used starter or powder yeast but it’s easy to confuse dough that’s overisen with dough that’s too wet. Over risen dough will still taste ok when it’s baked but the bubbles will often be tiny or huge pockets depending on when in the over rise you bake but I think the biggest thing you will see is that it’s impossible to shape. If you look online you can see videos of people shaping 100% hydration doughs so if it’s properly risen it’s possible to do but if the gluten breaks down too much then that stops being true.





_refugee_  ·  1490 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I used powdered instant. The recipe said the dough could go for as long as 7 days. I don’t have a lot of experience with freeform bread so I guess what I’m saying is I don’t really know which problem it might be! Thanks for the thoughts :)

uhsguy  ·  1490 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You can let it rise in the fridge for a couple days but I don’t really think 7 days is reasonable. My starter gets too weak and inconsistent if I feed it only once a week and keep it in the fridge so I wouldn’t recommend more than 48 hrs and even then it’s probably sensitive to what shelf you got it on. Maybe I’m slow but it took me 3-5 years to really figure out how to get decent bread it really is quite hard but seems so easy once you get there.

_refugee_  ·  1488 days ago  ·  link  ·  

she look-a betta dis time