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My best Tartine bread attempt to date

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kensbread01

My best Tartine bread attempt to date

I made two loaves of Tartine bread starting with Christmas eve overnight fermentation and baking on Christmas day.  I thought this was not going to work because the dough had really started to rise at room temperature and in my proofing box (microwave oven) to double it's size.  I thought that I was going to have a problem with over proofing and hence, get a gassed out final loaf.  But it ended up being my best bread to date.  I gave one loaf to my mom and the other was ours for eating.  My, this is a great recipe (Chad Robertson's) and if you are patient and learn from mistakes, I'm confident anyone can achieve similar results.

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PatrickS

Nice! Hopefully that will be me soon. 

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Bakingmadtoo

That is a lovely looking crumb. 

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carblicious

The crumb looks fantastic.  Congrats on the great looking bread.

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rossnroller

Congrats, Ken!

Cheers
Ross

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WoodenSpoon

Oh nelly that looks good!

 

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Isand66

Beautiful looking loaves!

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breadsong

Beautiful bread and a lovely gift to give! :^)

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dabrownman

yoiu go.  Perfectly baked to that dark brown crust with a nice open crumb that we like so much  - Well Done!

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Gingi

great job. mind sharing with us how your recipe differs from the one in the book?

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kensbread01

Gingi,  my recipe did not actually differ from the book except I went with a little more hydration (maybe added in 25g of water).  Also, I might have added one heaping tablespoon of starter (that had been rising very well for me) to my initial 200 gms water and 200 grams flour the night before.  I think the only thing different, after the initial bulk fermentation and folds, I put all in the fridge overnight.  Last time I did this, the bread came out tasting better.  Yeast is suppose to stop working below 40F but enzymes in the flour keep on working.  When come for final rise, I divided the dough into two pieces and proofed for another 3 hours in the microwave oven with some boiling water in a bowl.  I refreshed the water every hour with more boiling water.  I will do it this way again, except I will half the dough before overnight fermentation so I can add extra ingredients and get two different loaves. I think the book suggest one does this after the first fold.  I recently bought another plastic container so I can make two different loaves from one 1000 gram dough.  Hope that helps.  The book goes into all the details but like many, you have to re-read things (those key 30-40 pages) every time you make the bread.  It's easy to miss something or skip a step.  First time I put the salt in with the dry flour not giving the 30 minutes autolyse time. From Wikipedia:  "Autolyse is an essential dough process. It refers to a period of rest after the initial mixing of flour and water, a rest period that occurs sequentially before the addition of yeast and other ingredients".