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    Bread - What are you baking today…..

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    • GilesG
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      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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      • neph93N
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        I reckon I’ll be refreshing my starter on Monday morning in my new kitchen. Goddamn I’m looking forward to that.

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        • GilesG
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          Poolish with white and light rye…

          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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          • neph93N
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            First bake for 3 months! Harvest bread on a poolish pre ferment, in my new kitchen with a new dutch oven…. Did I forget to use the built in steam function in my new swanky integrated ovens. Yes I did.


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            We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

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            • GilesG
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              I get better results in a Dutchy, than I do in the steam oven…..

              "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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              • neph93N
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                @Giles:

                I get better results in a Dutchy, than I do in the steam oven…..

                I was scratching my head trying to remember if you need steam with a dutch oven, and I guess you’ve just answered that for me.

                I was pretty happy with the bake. They were slightly overproofed because I couldn’t find my oven gloves and had to run out and buy some [emoji1]

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                • GilesG
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                  Hahahaha

                  The Dutch oven replicates the steam from a steam oven because it contains the steam from the dough within the vessel….

                  "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                  • neph93N
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                    @Giles:

                    Hahahaha

                    The Dutch oven replicates the steam from a steam oven because it contains the steam in the vessel….

                    I’m now equipped with two matching steam enabled ovens, two Sabor dutch ovens and one baking steel, so I’m going to mix it up over the autumn. The baking steel was interesting when I tried it in the last house but I want to have a bash side by side with the dutch oven. I’m reviving my starters after next weeks trip south too.  Happy days.

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                    We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

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                    • jordanscollectedJ
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                      Im happy for your first bake in the new house Rueben! Many more loaves to come. I also really appreciate that counter height window sill. I can see a pie or quiche cooling in that very spot with an incoming breeze.

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                      • neph93N
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                        @jordanscollected:

                        Im happy for your first bake in the new house Rueben! Many more loaves to come. I also really appreciate that counter height window sill. I can see a pie or quiche cooling in that very spot with an incoming breeze.

                        Thank you, Jeff. It was great… and that window will really come into its own when it gets changed in August/September and properly finished. It will be an old style double window on latches too.

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                        We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

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                        • RoxRocks86R
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                          Loaves look tasty Rueben. New kitchen looks great as well, gotta catch up on your build thread!

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                            My buddy baked us an out of this world jalapeño sourdough. I can’t stop eating it. I’ve never had better crust and interior texture and the moisture is perfect. He used a Dutch oven.

                            Think it, be it.

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                              Forkish Biga + Focaccia

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                              • neph93N
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                                After a few rounds of poolish to get used to the new kitchen I started to rejuvenate my starter which has been in one fridge or another since April. I did three or four daily refreshes until it was powerful and bubby and baked with it yesterday. Two loaves of double fed white, and two country blonde.

                                Without meaning to the taste profile of the starter has been altered. It has lost some acidity and and gained some lactic notes. I like it.




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                                We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

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                                • dinobarnesberlinD
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                                  Starters…the gift that just keeps giving-

                                  Good to see you having a go at it again in the new digs.

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                                  • neph93N
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                                    @dinobarnesberlin:

                                    Starters…the gift that just keeps giving-

                                    Good to see you having a go at it again in the new digs.

                                    Pretty cool that it is this living thing that goes into hibernation when not in use and can be woken up when needed.

                                    As for the new place, not being able to bake was one of the worst things with the whole gig…

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                                    We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

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                                    • dinobarnesberlinD
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                                      best attempt at Dr.Frankensteins initial tone and reaction–

                                      "Its Alive!!"

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                                      • GilesG
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                                        Ear, ear…..

                                        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                        • neph93N
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                                          @Giles That is a lovely looking bit of bread. Was that in a big oval dutch oven?

                                          I’m doing my sourdough standard double today. Things are looking bubbly…



                                          «Stevie Heighway on the wing!
                                          We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

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                                          • GilesG
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                                            @neph93:

                                            Was that in a big oval dutch oven?

                                            Yep.

                                            And yeah, that dough looks active 😳

                                            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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