Breaking Bread

Started baking some bread for both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day dinner. Here are the first couple out of the oven.

 

[SavinaRed]

Baking a sourdough loaf today and a 2/3 whole wheat sourdough loaf tomorrow. I just mixed up the whole wheat loaf and will let it sit until tomorrow afternoon when I will bake it. 
 
Edit: instead of the usual baking bread in my C.I. Dutch Oven I'm trying it today on my pizza baking stone to see if I like it that way. 

 

[dragonsfire]

Did a quick one this morning, added natural ACV, to be devoured this evening

 

[SavinaRed]

Added some rye flour to my starter to get a more tart/sour flavor profile.  

 

[grantmichaels]

My starter is organic dark rye flour!

 

[SavinaRed]

My starter is organic dark rye flour!

I'm converting mine each feeding now with rye and whole wheat. I've been using Bobs Red Mill Flours.

 

[grantmichaels]

I'm converting mine each feeding now with rye and whole wheat. I've been using Bobs Red Mill Flours.

 
My starter is on 100% Bob's organic dark rye ...
 

 

 

[SavinaRed]

 
My starter is on 100% Bob's organic dark rye ...
 
 

Are you mixing,making and kneading your bread by hand or with a mixer ?  I've always done it by hand but the last 3 times I have used my wife's Kitchen Aid and I'm getting spoiled lol.

 

[dragonsfire]

If you guys have a decent blender you can grind flour in their. Bobs Red Mill Flours like buckwheat is about $7/lb here, I buy a 25lb ORGANIC BUCKWHEAT GROATS, hulled for $35 cad.
Does not take long to burn through it when one uses it regularly.

 

[grantmichaels]

If you guys have a decent blender you can grind flour in their. Bobs Red Mill Flours like buckwheat is about $7/lb here, I buy a 25lb ORGANIC BUCKWHEAT GROATS, hulled for $35 cad.
Does not take long to burn through it when one uses it regularly.

 
Blender and juicer, two gadgets I haven't purchased yet!
 

 

[grantmichaels]

Are you mixing,making and kneading your bread by hand or with a mixer ?  I've always done it by hand but the last 3 times I have used my wife's Kitchen Aid and I'm getting spoiled lol.

 
Have only done por los manos so far ...
 
1010 uses a Kitchenaid though, too, I believe ...
 

 

 

[tctenten]

Baking a sourdough loaf today and a 2/3 whole wheat sourdough loaf tomorrow. I just mixed up the whole wheat loaf and will let it sit until tomorrow afternoon when I will bake it. 
 
Edit: instead of the usual baking bread in my C.I. Dutch Oven I'm trying it today on my pizza baking stone to see if I like it that way. 

 
 
Sorry I missed this yesterday, but I do all my loaves on the pizza stone.  Will you be covering with a stainless steel bowl?  I like the results with that even better.  

 

[t0mato]

 
Blender and juicer, two gadgets I haven't purchased yet!
 

 
 
.........yet. 

 

[SavinaRed]

 
 
Sorry I missed this yesterday, but I do all my loaves on the pizza stone.  Will you be covering with a stainless steel bowl?  I like the results with that even better.  

yesterdays loaf I left uncovered and the results were ok. Today I will cover it for the first 20 minutes with a C.I. Dutch Oven. I do not have a SS bowl lol. I might have to go buy one today haha. 

 

[tctenten]

yesterdays loaf I left uncovered and the results were ok. Today I will cover it for the first 20 minutes with a C.I. Dutch Oven. I do not have a SS bowl lol. I might have to go buy one today haha. 

Yup that is what I do. Good luck.

 

[SavinaRed]

I found the PERFECT SS bowl as Marshalls. I have a 3/4 inch thick 14 inch round pizza stone and found a bowl that fits perfectly over it.  

 

[tctenten]

Nice. Perfect fit.

 

[SavinaRed]

The loaf turned out a little flatter then I would of liked

 

[grantmichaels]

Nice!

 

[dragonsfire]

As long as it tastes good, its a success

 

[SavinaRed]

It has a nice crumb and tastes great so it passed the test . I'll have to make my next loaf when the feeding is at it's peak with activity. I think I waited to long which is why it didn't rise like I had expected .