WILD CRUMB. EVEN CRUMB. There is a lot of noise about "bread holes" and an avalanche of questions:
"How do you make big holes in bread? Why doesn't my bread have holes in it? Why is my bread so dense and heavy? How do you make that bread with the big holes? Should sourdough bread have holes? How do I get holes in my artisan bread? Why Do I Have Big Holes In My Bread? 20 Tips to Make Sourdough Bread Less Dense. What ensures big holes in my bread? How to get bigger air holes in my sourdough bread? How to get Small even holes in sourdough bread?"
And so on. Questions that haunted me too.
I took the two doughs in two opposite directions. One, that I wanted "wild", with a relatively short bulk (I still wanted a proper fermentation) for which I did not make repeated foldings (keeping the structure naturally grown) and another one (that I wanted "even") with a long bulk pushed at 7 hours for which I built the structure through repeated packaging.
Both were difficult to shape. The "wild" one was very relaxed and could not be tensed very well without internal tension, and the "even" one has accumulated a lot of air and I was afraid of destroying it during shaping. (She also remained without tensions)
But beyond these details in video you can see the differences between crumbs structure very well. I hope it will help you and simplify your future explorations.
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Formula for two loaves:
625g flour (455g bread flour + 100g whole wheat flour + 70g semolina)
510g water
130g sourdough starter (100% hydration)
15g salt
Method:
mix flour & water - 3 hours autolyse
mix sourdough starter - 30 mins rest
mix salt - 30 mins rest
strong sf - 30 min rest
dividing & lamination - 1 hour rest
first coil fold - 1 hour rest
For "wild" one:
shaping after 5 hour bulk (from starter inoculation)
18 hours final proofing in the fridge
For "even" one:
second coilfold - 1 hour rest
third coilfold - 1 hour rest
shaping after 7 hours bulk (from starter inoculation)
18 hours final proofing in the fridge
bake both together,15 min on baking steel at 240g C with steam and 30 min at 210g C without steam.
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