I decided to venture off the beaten path of following a recipe and spawned this wonderful specimen. It overflowed out of the bread pan during the 24 hour cold ferment. I tucked the dough back in and pinched it. I guess it had other plans 😆
Other than the tail, I'm happy with it!
I'll post recipe in comments.
by dodgerdabbit
26 Comments
It’s adorable. To me it looks like a beak of an angry bird.
Penguin loaf
This will become the next sought-after sign of a perfect loaf. A “tail”.
(Crumb looks awesome btw)
Recipe:
935g Great Plains strong bakers flour
50g whole wheat flour
830g water
20g fine sea salt
160g ripe starter
Autolyse
Add the flour and 730g of water to a bowl and mix until there is no dry bits. It will look shaggy. Cover for 1 hour.
Mix
Add the salt, starter, and remaining water. Mix until it hurts. Then, mix for a couple more minutes. It should look like dough at this point. Leave it sit covered for about 20 minutes. Do 3 sets of stretch and folds about every 20 to 30 minutes.
Bulk ferment
I let mine bulk ferment until it doubles in size. This time, it took about 6 hours.
Divide
Dump out dough on to your worksurface. I use one of those silicone bakers mats. Divide it in half and lightly shape each into a round ball. Let rest for 30 minutes, uncovered.
Final shape
Flour the top of your dough and flip it over onto your light floured work surface. Stretch out into a rectanglish shape. Now, i shape my dough for a bread pan. You do you here. I fold the top down to aprox halfway down. Then fold one side to about the halfway across. And then the opposite side i fold on to the previous side. I now grab the closest edge and roll it up. Now try to toss it gingerly into an oiled bread pan.
By this time, i was too tired to bake, i decided to cover and cold ferment for 24ish hours.
Bake
Preheat oven to 450f with dutch oven in it. I use a roaster, but whatever. Bake for 1 hour, firm down to 400 after 30 minutes
THE BREAD NIPPLE THE BIPPLE
House elf loaf!
honourary weevil
I like your puppies tail
Why is your bread trying to Avada Kadavra me??
This made me laugh! 🤣 Most of us hope for ears! Your’s has a tail! Looks great! Perfect crumb!
That bread be lookin’ like Eddie Munster
Love the crumb for a loaf like this. Probably made lovely sandwiches.
It was trying to escape but got overcome by the heat
The flying nun
The blob! Glad you baked it before it fully escaped the pan!
I want to cronch.
I want to cronch.
I love her
i’ve heard of an ear, but this is a tail! great crumb, though
It’s a little hedgehog 🦔
I’ll eat it!
Looks like something from Half Life.
I bet it tastes delicious with salted butter!
Reminds me of Kreacher the house elf from Harry Potter 😂
Birdie!!
The ant eater-echidna bread. I love it. I’ll pay extra for it
Reminds me of the flying toaster screen saver 😂