Any Home Bakers Here?

[Aria]

Baking bread today. In fact, I have a question for you all.

What does dough enhancer and vital wheat gluten do? I found some in my pantry.

Also, went fishing and got two rainbows.

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Helps the dough rise. Aria

 

[ronott1]

@ronott1 I got the starter yesterday and just put it in the oven with the light on.

Remember to add more water and flour this morning.

Hopefully @DigMyChicks will report soon. The start I sent raised whole wheat bread with the first discard!

Ready in a day

 

[wyoDreamer]

@jnicholes Vital Wheat Gluten is added to the bread dough to increase the amount of gluten to a higher concentration than what is normally found in just flour. More gluten means more air bubbles can be trapped and you will get a better rise. Dough Enhancer is added to the dough to make it smoother, so you get more of a store bought bread texture. A lot of times the Dough Enhancer also contains Vitamin D and gluten.

 

[jnicholes]

Thanks for the information. Bread is already in the oven.

 

[jnicholes]

 

[rjohns39]

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Looks delish

 

[DigMyChicks]

Here’s my bread using Ron’s starter. I have a long way to go in the learning but it’s a start. I toasted it for breakfast and it was really dense but I like dense bread. It did raise but not super high...pretty sure due to my error not Ron’s starter. It got nice and bubbly.

 

[ronott1]

Here’s my bread using Ron’s starter. I have a long way to go in the learning but it’s a start. I toasted it for breakfast and it was really dense but I like dense bread. It did raise but not super high...pretty sure due to my error not Ron’s starter. It got nice and bubbly.
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It will get better with time and practice!

Next time try 50% bread flour and 50% whole wheat flour

 

[DigMyChicks]

It will get better with time and practice!

Next time try 50% bread flour and 50% whole wheat flour

Sounds good, thank you! What’s in the bread flour vs whole wheat?

 

[igorsMistress]

Remember to add more water and flour this morning.

Hopefully @DigMyChicks will report soon. The start I sent raised whole wheat bread with the first discard!

Ready in a day

I just started it this morning, should have clarified sorry.