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a baguette attempt and some loafs resting on my couch

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jungnickel

a baguette attempt and some loafs resting on my couch

This is one of my first attempts to bake a decent baguette in my 120 € oven (+stone) with the cheapest flour I could get here in Amsterdam.

This is the formula:

- 1000 g flour
- 750 g water
- 7 g fresh yeast
- 20 g salt

The mixing process was inspired by Richard Bertinet and I gave it a couple of stretch and folds before I put it into the fridge after 1,5 h after mixing for 48 hours. Then after giving it some strength dividing, shaping, proofing for 30 minutes. I am quite satisfied. It is everything but perfect and my oven doesn't really support me but I am pretty happy about the crumb. Taste could be improven by different prefermentation or T65 flour but the idea was to keep it simple.


Furthermore a couple of things that kept me busy the last two days...

 

 

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CAphyl's picture
CAphyl

jungnickel:  Fantastic baguettes for a first attempt.  You should have seen my first attempt....not worth posting, for sure!  Love the other breads as well.  It seems that your couch is a good staging area, but look out for the bread crumbs....Best,  Phyllis

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dabrownman

The baguettes look delicious.  Well done and happy baking

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pmccool

I really look forward to what you can do in a well-equipped kitchen.  You are obviously enough of a craftsperson that your limited tools are not an impediment to your skills.

Very nice breads.

Paul

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jungnickel

of course you only post the stuff that goes well in the end, there is so much i would like to learn, but of course a well epuipped kitchen would be great, i am thinking to invest some money in a decent oven...

greets,

johannes