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I don't have pictures of everything- but I've been baking (a lot) and wanted to do a side by side comparison of Reinhart's Crust and Crumb San Francisco sourdough versus King Arthur Flour's no knead sourdough. I last made both at different times and with different skill levels. Time for a show down on even playing ground.

The contenders: Reinhart Crust & Crumb San Francisco Sourdough

Same bread made with CLAS, but using a different flour. 

I'd been a loyal customer of another brand of flour for over a decade, but I felt being ditched during this time when flour is so difficult to source.  So, I "deflected".  Maybe it's about time to change, and I love the new flour!

After my success with Hamelman’s 50% whole-wheat (Hello and thankyou everyone for your contributions) I tried adapting his procedure to use 100% whole-wheat, which has always been my favourite. I used 78% hydration to get a nice shaggy dough and found that using a hand whisk followed by manual kneading was much better than using my Kenwood Chef with the dough hook.

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Bread with warts.(before)

Ok so have had this going for close on a week, 1st day had massive rise then posted on here and was told it was too wet.....added flour to thicken waited 24hrs then back to 100g starter and 50g flour and 50g water......this is what I have 2 days after “saving it” am I on track or do I scrap and start over!? 
many help is magnificent!!!

I used these buns to make kimchi-brined chicken sandwiches from seriouseats. Honestly the buns might've been better appreciated on their own, though the sandwich turned out pretty sublime.

Tangzhong

12 g flour
60 g milk

Dough

20 g cooked sweet potato
250 g AP flour
30 g sugar
1 tbs ADY
70 g milk
1 large egg
1/2 tsp salt (omit if using salted butter)
40 g softened salted butter

Steps

The  long cold Autolyse.

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Today is my niece's birthday, and part of my "gift" is to send her the link to this blog entry.

Background  - years ago dabrownman christened me Donnie Baggs here on TFL.  I had written this at some point in response to one of his comments.  But decided to resurrect it here with updates.

Cheese bread continues…

Edam Cranberry SD with Sprouted White Quinoa & Sorghum