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Sourdough baking

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100g starter + 100g strong flour + 100g water
Let sit 2-9 hours

Add 400g strong flour + 250g (ish) water + 12g (ish) salt
Mix well and adjust water as needed for a relatively dry dough
Let sit 2-20 hours

Fold/roll into a loaf
Proof in fridge 8-48 hours.

Bake 28 minutes at 260c covered in dutch oven
Bake 3 minutes 260c uncovered

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a beautiful loaf!

Any particular technique you are doing for the scoring? I love the "zig-zag" effect.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's just the simplest thing. Straight out of the fridge, while it's still cold and semi-firm, I hold the loaf in one hand, and lightly drag my bread knife over the top a dozen times overlapping in a zig zag way, then plop the loaf into the dutch oven.

A couple friends give me shit for manhandling the loaf that way, but it gets results.