A variation on SJSD and other bakes

I meant to start this batch early yesterday, but welcomed an old friend from out of town in the morning, pushing bake my mixing schedule back. It was HOT here yesterday with the mercury touching 32C outside and my kitchen 24 - 25C. I am following David Snyder's San Joaquin Sourdough formula, but with the elevated temperatures, reduced time between folds to 20 minutes for the first 4 and down to 30 minutes in the bulk stage. After the first 30 minutes the dough had risen by nearly a half.

After the second fold at 90 minutes at 6:00 pm it was far too hot to consider turning on the oven to bake bread. My compromise was dividing and shaping as a batard as per the KAF video, but rather than rolling out to a pointed free loaf, rolled it out into a tube to fit my oval brotforms. Then it was cover and put into the fridge overnight. My 7:00 am the next morning my first finger poke test showed the loaves over proofed . . . 

The loaves turned out tasty and attractive, but even fresh out of the fridge they were impossible to score with the lame. Does a lame dull scoring dough??? I had to use my laser sharp serrated bread knife and still didn't get a good score.

It is cool and rainy here today with a 68F kitchen temp and I have another batch of SJSD on the go, this time using the full 30 and 45 minutes rests in the dough development stage. I will follow through with the formula and bake in the morning. For practice, I will divide the dough into three and roll out three smaller batards for practice. I really do enjoy the flavour, crust and crumb of this bread!!!

Happy baking folks!  Ski

PS a parting pulla shot, from sweet levain rather than YW