Thread: Who bakes bread?

Originally Posted by nessmuck

That knife made life a whole lot easier...love it

Any chance of a picture of your 'Previous/Old' Bread Knife? Just wondering---

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Any chance of a picture of your 'Previous/Old' Bread Knife? Just wondering---

It was a dull serrated ..thinner blade...with no spine/ stiffness

Its been hot lately, I have not baked many loaves. I have been working on my flat bread game. Any kind of bread I can make in a skillet on the stove top. Flour tortillas, naan,.

I really like making a plain lean dough, about 60% (bakers percentage) hydration, then rolling out pancake size pieces to thow on a hot griddle.

Being it's usually only me here at the Boars Nest my countertop oven really comes in handy.While it says it's a convection oven I think it only has a bit of a fan to circulate the air. But it heats pretty quickly, does a nice even bake and cools off pretty quick. So it's really nice during these hot days.

It's only supposed to get up to 80 F today and tomorrow but then back to the mid 90's this is really a bit warm for this time of year here.

Originally Posted by spazola

Its been hot lately, I have not baked many loaves. I have been working on my flat bread game. Any kind of bread I can make in a skillet on the stove top. Flour tortillas, naan,.

I really like making a plain lean dough, about 60% (bakers percentage) hydration, then rolling out pancake size pieces to thow on a hot griddle.

On hot days I use a pizza stone on my bbq. Makes great flatbread too. The bbq gets quite a bit hotter than my oven - up to 700 degrees F - and that allows for a quick, bread oven style bake and nice scorching that enhances the flavour without heating up the house. I’ve also found baking directly on the grill can produce some fantastic results.

I'm feeling like the overkneading poster boy here. Man, oh man, does that ever make for some SOLID bread!

Originally Posted by Cangooner

I'm feeling like the overkneading poster boy here. Man, oh man, does that ever make for some SOLID bread!

Take a look at some of the no knead recipes. They produce really nice open textured loaves and you can keep the dough in the fridge for several days, using what you want to bake a fresh loaf every day.

Originally Posted by DZEC

Take a look at some of the no knead recipes. They produce really nice open textured loaves and you can keep the dough in the fridge for several days, using what you want to bake a fresh loaf every day.

I used to do that all the time and it works really well! This is the recipe I used:

https://www.motherearthnews.com/real...e-zmaz07djzgoe

At the moment I've fallen down the sourdough rabbit hole though and I haven't tried to adapt the one to the other. Maybe I'll do some experimenting...

Originally Posted by DZEC

On hot days I use a pizza stone on my bbq. Makes great flatbread too. The bbq gets quite a bit hotter than my oven - up to 700 degrees F - and that allows for a quick, bread oven style bake and nice scorching that enhances the flavour without heating up the house. I’ve also found baking directly on the grill can produce some fantastic results.

Thanks for the idea. Its a bit black on the bottom but I am happy considering it was baked on my propane grill.. Next time it will work better. The temperature gauge on the grill is no where near accurate. I went out to give it a 180 turn, and it was already done.

65%, glug of olive oil, ap flour, 2% salt

Baking on the Q is still on my list to try. And skillet flatbreads now that I’ve seen some examples. Looks tasty.
I’m still working the sourdough blends. Today’s bake from the overnight fridge rise is 70% hard white and 30 % atta blend. Coated with poppy and sesame respectively.