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Shaping technique for a spiral crumb (follow up post)
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Shaping technique for a spiral crumb (follow up post)


Hi guys! Following up from the other day where people asked what my shaping technique was to get that spiral in the loaf. Let me start by saying I’ve been making sourdough for one week so I can’t at all claim that I’m a pro here I think I just got lucky. It’s working though so I think I’ll just keep doing it 😂

Recipe is:

•425g room temp water
•325g KA unbleached bread flour
•325g KA unbleached AP flour
•200g active start (at peak)
•15g salt

Mix together, rest 30 min, add salt and squeeze into the dough, stretch and fold x4 every 30min. Bulk ferment 5 more hours (7 total). Dough temp 77 degrees. Tried to let rise according to the dough temp algorithm.

I think this one is maybe underfermented?? Idk but maybe the holes seem a little smaller?? I don’t know what I’m doing here.

It wouldn’t let me attach a video and a photo so here’s just the video I can show you the finished loaf in the comments. Did a weird score just for fun.

Please enjoy my daughter’s little teeny baby loaf.

Don’t judge for the shoe on the pizza pan, it got cleaned after. One crisis at a time 🤪



by slt69

11 Comments

  1. medyaya26

    It seems like your rolling it pretty tight. Isn’t that going to pop alotnof the bubbles

  5. Training_Long9805

    So cute to see the little hands mimicking your technique

  6. WorkingMinimumMum

    Okay this is amazing. How are you doing it without flour? How is it not sticking to your hands?

  8. Chops888

    It’s your style but this is needlessly over working / over touching the dough. you are squeezing out the air/gas by rolling it so tight. Even before you fold, notice how much you are handling it and even shaking it out in the air. and by the time you roll it, the dough is basically flattened out. It’s not a pizza! Try being a tad more delicate and see if there’s a difference next time.

  9. MechaThighs

    Bread aside, this was such a delightfully wholesome video to watch. What a sweet little toddler, and you can tell they have paid attention and are copying you! Thank you for sharing!

  11. mrbuttonhead

    Thanks for sharing – I’ll have to try. Couldn’t help but laugh as I do the same with my children. I need to calculate extra flour for my recipe as to give them a slice to make sure they feel included in the bread making process 🙂

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