7-day build dough
Greetings
This method is an inspiration from dabrownman [1]'s NMNF starter method
Th idea is to start with a tiny 1g seed, the build it up every day for a week until all the ingredients are used up. You can choose to build it in 2,3,4,5,6 or 7 days as you wish.
Ingredients:
1kg flour pack
a bottle containing 20g sea salt, disolved in 510g of water
I use a homemade starter, so the seed is a sourdough. But even if you seed from commercial yeast dough, I recon overtime wild yeast would build up and eventually take over.
The final dough has a comfortable relaxed feeling when shaped in pizza trays, good oven rise, and a beautiful taste from all the over-fermentation it went through, except day 7 of course.
You should try it.
I made a little editable sheet for anyone interested, where you can input your own flour and salt quantities and your preferred hydration percentage, then the sheet will show you the daily build ingredients.
Here is the link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q6H6rPfPLkf-mv3aQpS6wqPgJWS5oZkriCRs--bDQmI/edit?usp=sharing [2]
Here is how sheet looks like:
fill the yellow cells | Day | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Total | ||
Total flour (g): | 1000 | seed | 1 | 4 | 12 | 36 | 108 | 324 | 1074 | ||
Four to water ratio | 100% | water | 1 | 4 | 12 | 36 | 108 | 375 | 536 | ||
Final hydration: | 51% | flour | 2 | 4 | 12 | 36 | 108 | 375 | 463 | 1000 | |
dough salt | 2.6% | total | 4 | 12 | 36 | 108 | 324 | 1074 | 1536 | 1536 | |
6-day build | Day | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Total | |||
seed | 4 | 12 | 36 | 108 | 324 | 1076 | |||||
water | 4 | 12 | 36 | 108 | 376 | 536 | |||||
flour | 4 | 12 | 36 | 108 | 376 | 464 | 1000 | ||||
total | 12 | 36 | 108 | 324 | 1076 | 1540 | 1536 | ||||
5-day build | Day | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Total | ||||
seed | 12 | 36 | 108 | 324 | 1084 | ||||||
water | 12 | 36 | 108 | 380 | 536 | ||||||
flour | 12 | 36 | 108 | 380 | 464 | 1000 | |||||
total | 36 | 108 | 324 | 1084 | 1548 | 1536 | |||||
4-day build | Day | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |||||
seed | 36 | 108 | 324 | 1108 | |||||||
water | 36 | 108 | 392 | 536 | |||||||
flour | 36 | 108 | 392 | 464 | 1000 | ||||||
total | 108 | 324 | 1108 | 1572 | 1536 | ||||||
3-day build | Day | 1 | 2 | 3 | Total | ||||||
seed | 108 | 324 | 972 | ||||||||
water | 108 | 324 | 104 | 536 | |||||||
flour | 108 | 324 | 568 | 1000 | |||||||
total | 324 | 972 | 1644 | 1536 | |||||||
2-day build | Day | 2 | 3 | Total | |||||||
seed | 324 | 972 | |||||||||
water | 324 | 212 | 536 | ||||||||
flour | 324 | 676 | 1000 | ||||||||
total | 972 | 1860 | 1536 |