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Three amigos bread

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Abelbreadgallery

Three amigos bread

Three round sourdough boules, 500 grams each. Hydration, 65%.

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drogon

Just curious how you measure your hydration as I've seen it 2 ways - one including the starter (which is how I measure mine) and one just the flour & water used in the dough without the starter...

(Will be making 3 of these tonight/tomorrow morning myself too - dough scaling weight is about 520g each with my usual quantities)

Cheers,

-Gordon

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Abelbreadgallery

490 ml liquid sourdough (50% flour 50% water); 680 gr bread flour; 360 ml water; 15 gr salt.

So it's 925 gr flour per 605 ml water : 65% hydration.

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drogon

So the same way I calculate my hydrations.

Incidentally, they look good too!

My recipe (currently autolyzing) calls for 320g ripe starter (50/50, flour/water), 800g flour (500g white, 300g wholemeal) and 460g water to give an overall hydration of 65%. A total of 800+160 = 960g flour to 460+160 = 600g water so about 63% hydration. I stick to the 1% salt recommendations here, so that mix gets 12g salt, or 4g per cooked loaf which come out at about 425g out of the oven... Will post photos if I remember!

Thanks,

-Gordon

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drogon

this is a 30/70 mix of wholemeal/white flours.

Three x BFL Sourdoughs

 

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Abelbreadgallery

Very nice. Congratulations.