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One small step for a sourdough baker...

Dave Cee's picture
Dave Cee

One small step for a sourdough baker...

...one giant leap for aspiring bakers!

I am a novice sourdough baker. I’ve been baking sourdough for about 35 years but was doing it all wrong. Thanks to TFL experts I have been making progress and come into the light. Or at least into the penumbra.

 

To distill it down to a vital essence: It’s all about consistency, repeat-ability... that is being able to produce the same (desired) result over and over again.

 

I have been hampered in my experimentation by being limited to baking about once a month. I’m guessing that some/many/most of the other novices are baking more like once a week. So by my calculation I’m only about 8 months into a quest that started 33 months ago.

 

I’m closing in on it. I have thought I was close as far back as 18 months ago, but no...

 

This past week I have baked three separate loaves of sourdough on different days using the same methods, with near-enough identical results. I’m guardedly optimistic about this.

 

This is loaf #3:

 



 

Thanks for looking and best wishes. Dave

Sic Semper Panem!

 

BethJ's picture
BethJ

Beautiful bread, Dave!

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justkeepswimming

And something I aspire to achieve. ?

semolina_man's picture
semolina_man

Well done, looks great!

semolina_man's picture
semolina_man

Well done, looks great!

HeiHei29er's picture
HeiHei29er

Looks awesome!  Congrats!

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Benito

Beautiful loaf Dave, consistency is something that I think all or most home bakers who bake once a week snuggle with especially early on.  If you're getting some consistency that is just awesome.

Benny

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Dave Cee

I am very grateful for the guidance of the TFL forum experts.