Baking afficionados

Snyper564 said:
Been baking up a storm working my way through the perfect loaf sourdough cook book. https://www.theperfectloaf.com/best-sourdough-recipe/

I saw a double loaf pan trend pop up in my feed last week, the results were amazing! Also the fact you can bake many loaves up to 6/8 at a time. Although I would do 2 without a Dutch oven and cheap tins really caught my attention.

Did a high hydration loaf this morning almost 48hours fermented. The taste... A thing of beauty!


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Not quite understanding why you need two loaf pans here and it won't make a great dutch oven either for the factor of leaking.

I feel like a piece of foil over the top to compensate for the expansion would work much better.

That's if covering it at all even does anything.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Not quite understanding why you need two loaf pans here and it won't make a great dutch oven either for the factor of leaking.

I feel like a piece of foil over the top to compensate for the expansion would work much better.

That's if covering it at all even does anything.
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I made sure I bought pans with a lip then I clip mine together. Look its not exactly like a dutch oven but it does a great job for steaming and bread turned out beautiful. its a nice hack if you wanna do more than 2-3 loaves at a time.
 
Snyper564 said:
I made sure I bought pans with a lip then I clip mine together. Look its not exactly like a dutch oven but it does a great job for steaming and bread turned out beautiful. its a nice hack if you wanna do more than 2-3 loaves at a time.
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Yeah I'll try it sometime this week with a bit of foil or no covering at all, because in my mind the loaf pan itself is already doing the work of the steaming and pushing it upwards.
 
Snyper564 said:
please feedback thanks!
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Did it this afternoon, with just some foil on top and it did as I expected.

Should have been in a bit longer but I had to run to the shops and left it to the wife to take out, otherwise would have given it another 5 min.

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No stretch and folds and all that drama. I leave it in the Kitchenaid and spin it again every half hour for a minute or so and then just leave it in there overnight.

Shaped it into the ceramic this morning and left it in the fridge for the day and took it out for an hour or two when I got home. Probably would have done a bit better overnight in the fridge.

Will cut it open later tonight, too full after dinner now.

Clearly have a hotspot in my mini oven, will remember to flip it around next time.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Did it this afternoon, with just some foil on top and it did as I expected.

Should have been in a bit longer but I had to run to the shops and left it to the wife to take out, otherwise would have given it another 5 min.

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No stretch and folds and all that drama. I leave it in the Kitchenaid and spin it again every half hour for a minute or so and then just leave it in there overnight.

Shaped it into the ceramic this morning and left it in the fridge for the day and took it out for an hour or two when I got home. Probably would have done a bit better overnight in the fridge.

Will cut it open later tonight, too full after dinner now.

Clearly have a hotspot in my mini oven, will remember to flip it around next time.
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Still a delicious loaf!
 
bwana said:
Mini oven? Is that the Dome?
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No no, one of those Breville toaster things.

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This one.

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Figured I would try it because the loaf “tin” fits in there.
 
SauRoNZA said:
No no, one of those Breville toaster things.

****

This one.

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Figured I would try it because the loaf “tin” fits in there.
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Ok. My wife got me something similar recently. Pretty handy.
 
Tried making simple chocolate.

Melted butter with sugar and cocoa in double boiler.

Sugar didn't want to melt no matter what I done.

Added more and more butter as it dried out.

Sugar was probably too hard and not be used with baking. Don't know.

Thought I could eat whatever was in pot anyway. Wrong. Cocoa was burnt to heck, and tasted terrible.

End of my baking career.
 
SauRoNZA said:
The bigger one has a proofing function which would have been magic for me.
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My DIY proofing box does a great job - I just need to figure out how to cool it before summer comes around.
 
bwana said:
My DIY proofing box does a great job - I just need to figure out how to cool it before summer comes around.
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I have the opposite problem where summer is no issue for me, it’s getting it all warm enough in winter.

Stupidly my oven doesn’t have a light on only mode otherwise I would have done that probably.
 
bwana said:
My DIY proofing box does a great job - I just need to figure out how to cool it before summer comes around.
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cooling is a mega issue... I use fermentation fridges for brewing so I can cool and heat in same area but without something like that you gonna have an issue, tbh when its hot just watch the actually rises ferementation etc
 
Snyper564 said:
cooling is a mega issue... I use fermentation fridges for brewing so I can cool and heat in same area but without something like that you gonna have an issue, tbh when its hot just watch the actually rises ferementation etc
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I ended up sticking an ice pack in a cooler which keeps it around 22° - close enough for my needs.

B-1 said:
Not my best but it will taste like bread.
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That's all I can strive for.
 
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