To unload your proofed baguettes from their couches, you will need: a peel cornmeal bowl scraper proofed baguettes in couches (canvas) After your loaves have properly proofed, you will want to move them onto your peel. First, sprinkle cornmeal over the peel to prevent any sticking. Separate the first baguette by stretching the pleat, and …
I sat down today to try to begin work on the Sour Flour Training Manual, and didn’t really know where to start. I created a Word document, wrote “Sour Flour Training Manual” on it, and then stared at it for a while. I ended up deciding that I would be writing an outline of topics, and started a list: History (of Sour Flour), Philosophy (of Sour Flour), Ingredients, Scoring, Steam, Activity of Starter, Loading the Oven…
What is it that Sour Flour actually does? When I started Sour Flour, the idea was that I was going to learn as much as possible about baking bread, and that would be the business. To make sure a business could be viable, I ran some numbers and came up with the fact that if …
Review of Prior Bagel Monday Weekly Review Last week we didn’t have a Bagel Monday Weekly Review, but the week before that we had just started doing them again. Bagel Monday has been a steady routine every week without stop for almost a year now, but the Bagel Monday Weekly Review has not been as …
One starting point for making delicious bread is to learn about the starter that makes the bread. Each starter is unique, and you can make it have different qualities based on how you would like it. Each time you feed your starter, you are giving it a new cycle of activity. A starter is very …
