

Life’s been so hard lately and I broke up with my bf yesterday but I finally got a good loaf today. It’s my first good one and only SLIGHTLY gummy (I think it’s only a little gummy because I only let it cool for 30 mins- I was impatient.) I genuinely started to lose hope and was ready to give up and then today it finally worked. i’m so relieved.
250g starter
660g filtered water
Mix dat up
1000g KA bread flour
Mix dat up
Sit for an hour
22g salt, added in during stretch and folds
Sit for 45 mins then stretch and fold x3
After the last stretch n fold it sat from roughly 4:15-7:30.
Then I dumped it out, split it into 2, shaped the loaves, covered them and let sit 30 mins.
Final shape the loaves, cover and sit another ten mins. One of them I threw in a floury rag bowl to cold proof for 16 hr. The other I scored, threw in my 500 degree preheated dutch oven, baked at 500 for 23 mins covered. I threw some ice cubes outside the parchment but it didnt actually help.. then lowered heat to 450 and had to cook about 28 mins there. Take it out, let it set 30 mins, cut in too early but god I really needed this and I’m so thankful
Next time I want to skip the ice cubes and actually let it cool down for 2 hours. What do y’all think?
by sugarmountainn

5 Comments
Proud of you for the breakup and for still doing things that bring you joy💛 you are strong and loved!
Congrats on first decent loaf. At this point it’s just tweaking the recipe until you get that perfect loaf. Either baking a bit more, proofing a bit more etc, just trial and error.
Looks good to me too!
Nawwwwww. She beautiful.
HELL YEAH!!!