Earning my stripes
I was loading my second loaf of the day into the oven when I heard a loud crack and then an electric buzzing sound. I looked down to see this:
Hmmm... that isn't good, is it?
45 minutes of running around and I was able to find a new coil.
The irony is that I was testing the Steam Maker bread kit [1] today, which is supposed to help you protect your oven from damaging it with improvised steam creation. I'm not suggesting that it is what killed my coil, I just found the timing amusing.
The bread? Just a basic pain sur poolish [2]. Pretty wet today, around 75% hydration.
I didn't do a great job of shaping it, but it looks like it turned out alright. Since the oven was dead we grabbed take out burritos instead of having the quiche I was going to throw in the oven after the bread was done, so I actually haven't tried it yet.