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Pain au Leviathan Levain

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alfanso

Pain au Leviathan Levain

Leviathan: Anything of immense size and power...

I had an urge to bake a monster "baguette".  Just for the fun of it.  Lacking any other reason, as if I needed one anyway.  Based on the Hamelman Pain au Levain w/WW & 60% hydration bread flour.  My version uses 125% hydration rye flour and eliminates the WW.

I included the full sized Fuji apple in the lead picture to provide a sense of size.  That's 22 inches or 59 cm.

 The bake allowed the flattened tip of the bread to recover nicely.

965g x 1 Leviathan. 13 minutes with steam, 10 minutes more and 3 minutes venting.

alan

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Isand66

You may need to register this one as a lethal weapon!  Better yet, I just had a vision of your doggie running around your house with it in her/his mouth knocking everything off every table you have :).  Look forward to seeing how the crumb came out and how it tastes.

Nice baking as usual.

Go big or go home!

Ian

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alfanso

I need to keep away from annoying neighbors until it's gone or I might use this thing to bludgeon one of them to unconsciousness.

Castagna wouldn't know what to do with it. She greedily takes crouton sized bites regularly, but I stuck an old baguette near her snout and she ignored it.  Go figure.  But I could see her trying to get stuck trying to get through a door jamb with this thing clenched between her jaws!

As far as go big or go home:  Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Raphael Palmiero.  All went big and were sent home. :-o

alan

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kendalm

Leviathon is great how about -

'La Bagotte'

Or simply 'baguette americain' _since everything in America is bigger ;)

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alfanso

we sadly note that many of larger sized members of the species are often times Los Norte Americanos.

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dabrownman

all must be well if gargantuan.   Nicely done Alan

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alfanso

 I placed a demi-baguette on my Suzie Homemaker oven for these shots.  And that's a crab apple.

 

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kendalm

The YEAST 

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alfanso

That she like this one!

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PalwithnoovenP

Or a 36", this just looks grand! And thanks for the word of the day. :)

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kendalm

Around the corner to get it that long and then break out drilling and other tools (to straighten it)

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alfanso

the diagonal of my oven baking deck and the length of my hand peel. Any more, and as you say, I'd have to break through the back side of the oven - probably not good for steam retention ;-) .

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alfanso

a delicatessen, Manganeros, became famous* for their 6 foot long sub. Copied many times now.

"A submarine sandwich, also known as a sub, wedge, hoagie, hero, grinder, or Italian sandwich, is a type of sandwich that consists of a length of bread or roll split lengthwise and filled with a variety of meats, cheeses, vegetables, and condiments."  

*They also became famous for a decades long feud between the adult brothers and their wives and offspring who all worked side-by-side and then next door to each other in competing businesses, and apparently without so much as a word between them for the entire time.  All over a small spat that was never resolved early on.  

Today's word is aardvark...