I baked this one today (started it yesterday) and I am impressed. I had never tasted a sandwich loaf so good! I have made rustic breads before but not sandwich loaves because I don't normally eat that type of bread so my husband just buys his from the supermarket (Pepperridge Farm type). I think from now on, there will be no eating supermarket plastic bread in this house! So good!

June

Why is my sandwich loaf splitting?: I followed the one stage sourdough recipe I found on this site.  I used freshly ground whole wheat only.  I also followed JMonkey's shaping video. Well I probably made some errors since I don't know yet why and how the loaf is optimized. SO what happened? Why did it split so much?

Also why could i only slice it quite thick?  Could it have been too freshly out of the oven? 

Here is a picture of the slice;

loaf slices