need help troubleshooting crumb texture
Hello everyone,
I am still young in sourdough baking as my starter is.
This is the second time my loaf successful going in and out from the oven.
Still confused with the term levain and mature starter sometime but here is what i did to produced the outcomes as in the picture: -
recipe called for pain de campagne roughly about 70%
final ingredient:
360g bread flour
40g rye flour
280g water
50g levain (100%hydration)
9g salt
making the levain,
15g rye mature starter (beautifully ripe & pass floating test *doesnt sink at all) (100% hydration) (feeding method 1:2:2)
180g bread flour
20g rye flour
left to be fermented at around 24-27*C until pass floating test before mixing into the final dough.
the total hydration for this bread including the levain would be 280(water)+25(levain) / 400(flour)+25(levain) = 71%
climate information,
hot & humid as in south east asia, malaysia to be precise.
dough affecting temperature could range from 26-29C if left in uncontrolled temp.
but most of the time i keep my dough close to me in an aircondition room at temp of : 19-23C
kitchen temperature at night would be around 25-26C.
Timeline:-
Day 1
11AM - Autolyse (6 hours)
5PM - Mix the final dough by S&F (rest 1 hour)
6PM - S&F
7PM - S&F
8PM - S&F (rest in fridge 10C-12C)
9PM - S&F
10PM - S&F (rest in fridge 10C-12C)
10.30PM - pre shaping the loaf, left on the kitchen counter
***accidentally falling asleep
Day 2
5AM - wakeup and panic & did the final shaping & let the dough rest in the fridge
8AM - poking test doesnt seem to be over fermented & bake at 230C 20minutes with the cover and 25 minutes without, until golden brown.
crumb dissection happen after 1 hour cooling down. cant wait any longer since i thought this would go down the thrash bin.
result:
crust was good however the crumb texture aren't.
taste wise a little sour but acceptable to my palette.
how can i make the crumb less chewy/gummy/doughy and a little bit soft?
any helpful links or suggestion would be really appreciated :)
thanks