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He's just loafing (lemmy.world)
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[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago

I recommend not getting into baking your own sourdough. I started during COVID because we couldn't get bread or even yeast at the store, just 50-pound bags of bread flour online. Now I'm stuck doing the whole process every fucking week because the bread is just so much better than anything you can get at the store.

[-] Cheesus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Once you get into a groove, it's easy to make you sourdough

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

No, it's not difficult or really time-consuming at all, but it does tie me to the house for a couple of nights in a row whenever I make it, and I have shit to do. I've also started sleeping through my alarms so I've developed a tendency to over-ferment a little bit.

[-] Cheesus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Slow fermentation in the fridge is your friend. For me it's 4-6 hours of bulk ferment then overnight in the fridge.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

My schedule is levain in the afternoon, stretch-and-fold after dinner, bulk ferment to around midnight, proofing in the banettons until around 4 AM, then into the fridge for most of the next day and I bake after dinner. It's that 4 AM alarm that I'm managing to completely ignore lately. An extra hour or two of fermenting isn't fatal, but it does reduce the height of the finished loaf a bit.

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