Brittle Crust
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I have been baking 8 loaves of bread per month in the last 10 years or so and sometimes the crust is very flake and brittle and I just can’t find the reason. The recipe is nothing special, always the same like water, regular white flour, yeast, some olive oil, salt and sugar. One day I will do 4 loaves which I put inside 4 Pyrex forms and the next day I will divide the dough into 40 bans which I put on 2 large trays (the Pyrex form and the trays are covered with parchment paper)
Somehow I believe it has to do with the baking process. What I always do I warm the oven to 380F and then put the loaves, 4 at a time, until they are done.
Any ideas why the brittle crust?
or exposed to changes in room humidity and temp variations? Do the top dough skins dry out?
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Yes the proofing loaves are covered and un covered just before I put them in the oven
And yes the top dough skins look dry just before I put them in the oven; perhaps I should wet them before they go in the oven?
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BTW why I get this large blank space on my replies just before my text?
It looks as if you're using a really old (and insecure and nearly impossible to use) version of Internet Explorer. I guess you were busy baking good bread when I was updating my computer. ?
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Thanks David,
For Internet access I use the latest Firefox version (Firefox Quantum 64.0.2 (64bit), with Windows 10 latest version (10.0.17134 build 17134) on a 1 year old Lenovo Flax 5 laptop.
In the past when I did access this forum I also had Firefox and never got this blank space with my posts so I don’t think the problem is related to my Browser
You have a wonderful forum and I got a lot of good tips from it
Maybe you have a browser extension (one that takes control of text editing, perhaps?) that's interfering.
I opened the site with my MS Internet Explorer just to see the difference. The only extension I have on Firefox is the Videodownload helper which I always have but perhaps the newest versions may create the interferance
So you are tight David, as we can see from my previous reply the problem is gone by using MS Internet Explorer and next time I will visit this site I will use the same Browser to avoid the problem
Thanks
I got the blank space and raw html once when I copied in text from a Word document - just a possibility about how these things occasionally crop up on this site.
I had to dabble in the source code to make it right.
Lance
Ah, MS Word's fault makes much more sense to me.
Now I get it and Lance you are right because quite often I do copy my replies from Word.
Lets see if this correct. This reply is using my Firefox and I wrote the reply straight here, not copied from Word.
Nicolas