I attended a sourdough baking course yesterday, and this is the result - hot out of the cast iron pot.
I'm usually on the consuming side of things, so it was nice to get a chance to learn the process and make it along a proper baker (although kneading by hand was a tough workout!).
I'll let it cool off a bit, and then get a slice with some cold salty butter :)
Deeper scoring too, but this is fantastic! Sourdough is not easy.
Thanks a lot! I agree, I was afraid to go too deep on the scoring. Our baker on the course had a cool scalpel like tool with just the right height on the blade, but at home I was limited to knives and scissors and I sort of errored on the side of caution.
Depending where you live you can get a proofing basket and bread lame really cheap online.
Yeah, I actually had the dough in a proofing basket we got at the course (on our 3 hr drive home), which worked great. Ah right, TIL of bread lames, that's what our instructor had :)