Hi everyone, I recently came across a sourdough discard loaf recipe here on r/sourdough and decided to try it for myself.
Recipe credit to u/Meliacet! Thank you for sharing it.
Formula:
500g bread flour
150g cold unfed starter
340g water
11g salt
Timeline / Process:
0:00 Autolyse flour + water
0:30 Added cold unfed starter + salt
1:00 Stretch and fold
1:30 Coil fold #1
2:00 Coil fold #2
3:30 Pre-shape
3:45 Final shape, then rested before stitching
4:00 Stitched the seam and placed it in the fridge while preheating the oven and baking stone
5:00 Moved to the freezer
5:20 Did some very questionable wheat stalk
scoring + one expansion score
Bake:
450°F with steam for 20 minutes.
Another 20 minutes without steam.
Then turned off the gas oven, opened the door, and let the remaining heat escape for 5 minutes before removing the loaf.
Honestly? Not bad at all. The crumb came out soft, the crust had a nice bite, and the sourness was just right. Definitely something I’d make again, especially since I have plenty of discard to use up.
Really happy with how practical and tasty this turned out.
by JtheOwner
3 Comments
Scoring is on another level here, such a beautiful looking bread you have here
Thank you for sharing the recipe, and your loaf looks incredibly beautiful! Such pretty scoring!
And may I ask, since I’m quite new at this – according your timetable you put the dough in the freezer for 20 minutes. What is the purpose of that?
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing. I wondered this with the other one I saw too: do you not knead at all? Is that normal for your bread process or particular to the discard loaf?
I usually knead for like 10 minutes before stretch and fold (or lamination, which I prefer). Wonder if I’m wasting my time with an unnecessary step!