Forever chasing open crumb

💦 82% hydration
🧂 2% salt
🦠 20% starter
⏱️ 8 hour bulk fermentation
⏱️ 15 hour cold retard
⏱️ 465F 25 mins covered
⏱️450F until that thing is dark (~25 mins)
🌾 great northern + @centralmilling

by Zachs_Cafe

22 Comments

  1. If it gets more open than that all the bread will get out. s/

    Seriously, I’ve never achieved that. Beautiful work.

  2. DetectiveOk6357

    Wow! This looks amazing 🙂 What kind of flour are you using?

  3. This is a beautiful bake. If you have time, I have some questions about your process.

    1) do you spend any time doing an autolyse?
    2) do you do anything to build gluten like stretch and folds or coil folds?
    3) do you bake in a dutch oven?
    4) do you add steam when you bake? If so, how do you add it.

  4. emergency-65

    Looks delicious. Unable to get these holes in my bread

  5. murfmeista

    That’s a really nice loaf for a high hydration! it’s awesome!

  6. Thin_Cauliflower_840

    I once made a loaf like that one. I thought: this would be amazing with olive oil and truffle mortadella. So I poured some olive oil on it and then the mortadella. I closed my eyes, gave a bite of my amazing open sandwich and “wait a minute, where is the olive oil???”. I opened my eyes, a checked the sandwich, and there was no olive oil!!! So I checked on the plate and… there was my olive oil. All my darned olive oil remained on my plate $#!%

  7. nocandid

    This is one perfect loaf.
    It would be great if you can post a video of the dough right before you shape it. To see the fluffiness and texture for learning.

  8. kabrooks25

    Sheeeeesh. 8hr bulk in what temperature situation?

  9. frkfausing

    Omg dream loaf, never had any luck with hydration over 70% 🫩🥵 maybe I should try this!