Any Home Bakers Here?

[Ladies-Eight]

Try doing a few rolls then .. Hot water should not be above 110. Use 2 eggs 2 table spoons sugar.. 1 tsp of salt and couple cups of flour till it pulls from the bowl.

@pennyJo1960 What temp do you bake them?

 

[ronott1]

Got up at 6:30 to do the final steps and then put my sourdough rye in the oven. The dough handled beautifully. It did it’s second rise in the oval banneton and looked amazing. But all I have to bake those kinds of breads in is a round Dutch oven. It sorta lost its shape.….not bad, it’s still a loaf (kinda), but it looks a little like it got stepped on. It spread out a bit in the Dutch oven.

That’s IT!!! I’m tired of spending two days on a bread just to put it in the wrong baking vessel and have it come out looking funny! I’m getting a clay bread baker. Any halfway affordable recommendations? I gotta say that the texture and flavor are wonderful. But it doesn’t look like it should.

There is a longer clay baker from sasafrass-- in the $70.00 range.

Check amazon for deals.

 

[bruceha2000]

Finally, I will say this one last thing. I INVITE everyone to be careful what we post here from now on. I don’t want to see anyone else leave.

Every time I try it looks like a brick and feels like one also.

Is your yeast dead?
The last time my bread was bad I had done both proofs in the oven at 100°F but I had to take it out to preheat the oven to baking temp. It sank. So now I'm doing first proof in the oven but the second "in the pan" proof on the mantle behind the woodstove in the living room. This isn't a problem in the summer when it is 75°F or higher in the kitchen.

It did it’s second rise in the oval banneton

You need round ones!!! I got mine on Amazon. Round banneton for round dutch oven and oval banneton for oval dutch oven (do they make those?)

 

[Blooie]

There is a longer clay baker from sasafrass-- in the $70.00 range.

Check amazon for deals.

Thanks! I can do that!

You need round ones!!! I got mine on Amazon. Round banneton for round dutch oven and oval banneton for oval dutch oven (do they make those?)

I have both round and oval bannetons, Bruce. And yep, they make oval Dutch ovens. But I wanted a loaf shaped loaf this time instead of a big old round one, so I thought I’d try to do the final rise in the oval banneton and see if it would hold its shape at least somewhat in the round Dutch oven. Um, it didn’t. My oval Dutch oven is so big that the bread would have come out looking like a cookie if I’d used that! So, I’m moving up to a clay bread baker!

 

[troyer]

She is near 90 and starting to dim a bit mentally. She lives alone. I think she does her best but probably has close to 50 birds, maybe more. I think keeping her nests clean is a bit beyond her. But she does love her birds and they are all she has. If she didn't have them she would just go toes up. It's not that big a deal for me to make her eggs presentable.

Good attitude, gentleness will go a long way with her.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I have baked sourdough in a smallish round dutch oven and it did great, @Blooie! I thought that's how you were s'posed to do it. But I have given up on the sourdough (sorry, @ronott1!). It's just too fussy and complicated for me. I'll stick to my yeast bread. Start to finish in one day.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Good attitude, gentleness will go a long way with her.

It's easy, she's an absolute gem.

 

[Blooie]

I have baked sourdough in a smallish round dutch oven and it did great, @Blooie! I thought that's how you were s'posed to do it. But I have given up on the sourdough (sorry, @ronott1!). It's just too fussy and complicated for me. I'll stick to my yeast bread. Start to finish in one day.

Yep. I usually bake it in my round Dutch oven too. But this time I wanted a loaf loaf.

 

[bruceha2000]

Hmmm, I wonder if there is anything you could put in the round oven to make flat sides. Something you could slide in like 2 flat metal "plates" of some sort. Time for ingenuity Blooie!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Hmmm, I wonder if there is anything you could put in the round oven to make flat sides. Something you could slide in like 2 flat metal "plates" of some sort. Time for ingenuity Blooie!

Or a round, flat collar of some sort...