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Out of the cold into the fire (brick)

Joyofgluten's picture
Joyofgluten

Out of the cold into the fire (brick)

The nights are getting colder here, my thoughts have been turning to overnight outdoor proofing schemes. 
For this bread, I started with a 45 min. autolyse, then minimal machine mixing in stages. The bulk  ferment was in the five hour range.
The loaves spent the night, seam down in baskets, and coved up inside of a large plastic box outside in the cold.
Outside the temp. dropped to +5c, I suspect that inside the box it was closer to +9.
At 3am, i got up to plug the oven in, at 6am, I felt sorry for them, brought them into the house and pealed them directly into a good hot 250c oven
They were clearly proofed to a delicate state, scoring them wasn’t a consideration, one did a stick and collapse on me, the other three were fine. 
The flour bill was quite simple on this one; 80% swiss bread flour (Halbweissmehl), 20% rye flour.
The rye built the levain, roughly half of it was fresh off the mill, unsifted.
0.5 % fresh yeast went into the final dough, the total water was around 75%, salt 2.1
Flavour wise, the acidity was somewhat up front but still polite, the crust was well caramelised and it’s aroma made itself known deep into the crumb. 
The crumb was well gelatinised and held it'd freshness well dispite the high white flour content. 
It was a decent enough batch and gave me a few ideas for the next round.
cheers

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Comments

ANNA GIORDANI's picture
ANNA GIORDANI

Magnifico risultato, spessore e cottura della crosta impeccabili, eccellente l'aveolatura della mollica.

Chissà che profumo all'uscita dal forno ........e chissà che gusto.

Bravissimo, questi pani mi piacciono veramente tanto.

Grazie della condivisione Joyofgluten.

A presto, Anna

 

108 breads's picture
108 breads

Ditto. Cannot add or improve on accolades in Italian. Wait - mangiare!

ElPanadero's picture
ElPanadero

looking bread. Bold bake, perfect crumb, has to taste great.

Edo Bread's picture
Edo Bread

Very nice loaves AND I love the name of your blog!

dabrownman's picture
dabrownman

That's some great bread   Well done and

Happy baking

Isand66's picture
Isand66

Those are some beauties.  Love the pattern your baskets are leaving as well.

Joyofgluten's picture
Joyofgluten

The weather here continues this week with ideal +5c overnight temperatures, today, i'll prepare a similar outdoor retard batch...wish me luck.

cheers

daniel