September 29, 2010 - 10:03am
My first ciabatta
Hello all,
I made my first ciabatta bread yesterday and I'll be honest I don't know if it was made correctly. I have had ciabatta before and as I understand it there are different kinds. The one I made was a biga ciabatta made from a poolish. It just tasted like pizza dough. It had very small pockets of air inside unlike the ciabatta I got at Whole Foods which had larger air pockets. It's reasonably soft, but dense and just not too pleasant to eat by itself. Is this wrong or how it should be? Should I maybe try a different type of ciabatta? I mainly want to use this bread for sandwiches. Thanks.