Bread - What are you baking today…..
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I find I get better oven spring with Poolish too…..
I’m getting steady acceptable oven spring now, with both. I’ve gone over to baking one loaf at a time, which means one goes straight in the fridge for about 90 mins while the other proofs on the bench for 30min while the oven warms. I get consistently better spring from the refrigerated loaf, regardless of how the pre-ferment is done.
These are my two white Biga from earlier in the week. Absolutely no prizes awarded for guessing which is which.
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Forkish Country Blonde pure levain on a Sunday morning.
Still working out proofing time for this… I definitely don’t need the four hours he suggests, but I can probably stretch it longer than the one hour they get. The second (split) loaf had a little over two hours in the fridge. I’m looking forward to comparing the crumb to see if their is a major difference there.