Bread - What are you baking today…..
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It isn’t all that tricky. A couple of hours on Saturday evening and then most of Sunday morning. The timing works out OK.
I don’t use dutch ovens but make foil «hats» instead. I also do one boule and one baton from each dough. This means I just use a baking tray and can do two loaves at time in the oven.
We are currently speccing the kitchen for the new house. While it has a smaller area than the current one it won’t be open plan (thank fekk), and having four walls there will be lots of room for storage. I’m currently making an argument for having two ovens, meaning I can either increase production or do the above with dutch ovens.
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Well back in my early hipster-baker days I thought it’s got be Levain and Levain only is the Holy Grail of bread baking… then Mr. I don’t-give-a-fuck slapped out his amazing Biga‘s... since then I started baking Biga breads usually once or twice a week... finally got some routine being quite happy with my results
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That Biga loaf looks excellent. I’m going to get back in Biga next weekend.
This weekend I had an apprentice with me. Jesper has a girlfriend called Hedda who politley asked mentor teach her how to make bread. She balked at the 8am Sunday morning start but like a trooper joined me for making the starter, to mixing the dough and the form and bake. She did great work and produced two Forkish Country Brown’s under my tutelage. I forgot to take pics [emoji849]
