My partner baked this bread less than 24 hours ago and we are unsure what these white lumps are, they've sort of just appeared out of nowhere. Can't be mold, right? When scraped off they almost feel doughy. The rest of the bread is absolutely fine and we had some last night.
Any ideas?
by joemcmanus96
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Moisture. Was it stored in plastic? Happens to my focaccia when I store in a plastic bag. Not mold toast it up it will taste just fine 🙂
Did you sprinkle coarse salt on it? If so, the salt soaked up moisture and dissolved, leaving a wet, salty patch.
did you put some flaky salt on top of the bread?
What kind of bread is it? Was it covered up when it was still warm?
Baked? That still looks raw
This looks like dough that has never seen the inside of an oven.
That bread does not look baked properly.
That doesn’t look like bread
You forgot to bake it.
Yikes
You eat that regularly?
Was there coarse salt on the outside? Looks like it drew water.
Pro tip? you might want to pull the dough a little more after it starts to form and always make sure to add salt last. It looks like the flour got clumpy
Baked on C with an F oven
While I don’t think this is mold, mold *can* appear in under 24 hours if the bread is very wet. And this looks underbaked.
Maybe salty areas?
What an indigenous specimen. How do you call em?
Bread Herpes
To those saying it’s raw – partner’s crying now, nice one. Lol no seriously I am almost certain it’s baked properly! I think the people saying about the sea salt are correct, which is why it looks a little moist on top.
It’s a focaccia but she used a little less yeast than the recipe called for, which is also probably not helping. If I could attach a photo of the inside I would, it’s cooked we promise haha
What did you cooked it with? Heated argument?
Looks like salt
It really doesn’t look like it was baked all the way. Looks like moisture pockets if u wrapped it while it was hot.
If bread becomes doughy when it’s squished or comes into contact with moisture than it’s underbaked
WTF xD
Salt residues
This has got to be a troll post. I refuse to believe this is real. That’s *clearly* raw.
the little lumps on top of the bread sweated in the foil, that moisture made the lumps soggy and therefore turned white, very normal
baked?
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Nature saved you on this one, bud. That’s not even half baked.
No!
Is the “perfectly fine” bread in the room with us?
It’s moisture from being wrapped/sealed before it’s fully cooled. The condensation will drip onto it if it’s not cooled all the way.
If you used maldon salt on the top then it would be even more greatly exaggerated from the condensation.
Moisture on yah bubbles.
Baked?
Baked it with hot breath
Where is the bread?
Yea, it is under baked as others mentioned. But you also need to wait for bread to cool COMPLETELY before packaging it in any way or the moisture will do this to the outside.
Definitely herpes.
Did you forget to turn the oven on
I get something like that whenever i cover my bed while it’s still hot and the moisture gets trapped inside, creating these wet spots on the crust.
Paul Hollywood’s voice is ringing in my ears over this one – “underproved, underbaked!”