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finally! ciabatta results I like.

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metropical

finally! ciabatta results I like.

after messing about on and off for a couple years, I combined the poolish ciabatta with the Jason cocodrillo.

Nice fermented delicate flavor.  mmmmm.

took about 30 mins on 4 with my Concept 7 mixer.  I used a smaller recipe then Jason listed because I had the poolish too.

I've gotten much better at handling wet dough.  Nice oven spring on unglazed terra cotta tiles.

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kenlklaser

That's a long mixing time. 

Would you attribute the large holes to the long mixing times, or something else?
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dabrownman

meat and cheese filled panini sandwich ....for me....OK you can have one too!  Well done and happy baaking

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Floydm

Looks great!

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Mini Oven

Lovely!  :)

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metropical

I dunno what to attribute the big eyes to, but based on past experience I'd guess the mixing time.

Jasons original instructions that I picked of the pre-web bulletin boards said:

 "beat the 7 bells out of the glop".

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metropical

sort of.  I messed with JMonkeys recipe here.  And a little bit of the Ponsford folding methodology.

tastes good, owing to the poolish. Crust is a wee thin.  Crumb is not quite.

I think my timing was off a bit.

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Mini Oven

You want a thin crust on Ciabatta.  Is the crumb slightly chewy?  That would be Perfect!