Experimenting

Been perusing this again and it has inspired me.

I'm doing an experiment, the dough is 90% hydration and I'm going to let the autolyse go for 5-6 hours, then add salt and starter, bulk ferment and shaping in the evening, bake in the morning

I think it's likely to be more or less a failure, but i realized that the loaves I'm getting from the tartine recipe look almost nothing like the ones in the book, so i gotta shake things up

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blackbrook@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 12h (1 reply)

This guy's Champlain Sourdough, and variations where I increase the percentage of whole grain flour, is my go to for a crusty sourdough loaf. I've also reconstructed a mostly wholegrain sourdough sandwich loaf (in loaf pan) from one of his blog posts, and it has become another go to loaf for me.

I really like his dough handling techniques and think he explains then in a way that no one else seems to, while always emphasizing that this is a way to do it that achieves such and such effect, but you can do it differently for a different effect. His YouTube videos are well worth watching to get a feel for that.

sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 12h

I haven't seen his YouTube channel yet, I'll have to check it out. I just have immense respect for the admission that he isn't a scientist and it's all just his experience, but also the absurd detail that he goes into. Putting the instinctive knowledge built by decades of experience into words is such a gift

And absurd detail in anything is my jam