August 12, 2013 - 10:58pm
Finally got to try out my new starter!
The bread is wonderful, the flavor is great and the crumb has nice big holes. I'm still not sure how I got the crumb that way but I'm thinking that since I just added the liquid starter I created a very wet dough which may have helped. It was so wet even with a good amount of folding and shaping it still spread way out instead of up, but I was less concerned about the flatness and more just the taste. I was going to wait until my starter was 2 weeks old but it was doubling so fast and smelled so great I decided to just test it. It is strange, I always thought I had to go to Panera or a good bakery to get bread that taste like this, who knew I could do it in my own kitchen, is it weird to be proud of a starter lol :) Here is the loaf: