Dude. I make my dough in a batch of four dough balls. One for the first week. The others go into the freezer. I date the bags and use one each week. I just thought it was funny that the guy made a video on how to freeze dough.
I didn't know you could freeze dough when I started out! I actually learned about
cold fermentation before that, haha! My bread journey started out as a teenager when my mom bought a bread machine & started making AMAZING potato bread. I worked at a pizza shop for a few years in school & later bought my own machine as an adult, inspired by RideFree's amazing
Toast Bread recipe:
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I was allergic to gluten for about 10 years, but then modern science fixed me in 2015 (woot woot) & I got into the No-Knead movement:
Then dove into sourdough in 2020 during the lockdown & bought a flour milling machine:
I try to bake every day now with a 10-minute procedure: (usually open-bake on a baking steel)
1. Fresh-milled flour (3 minutes)
2. Sourdough starter maintenance (2 minutes, I use the
scrapings method these days)
3. No-knead method (5 minutes)
My latest favorite is sourdough discard Wonderbread: (made with bread flour)
I use a few freezer methods now:
1. Frozen dough
2. Par-baked dough (ex. pizza crusts to decorate later)
3. Fully-cooked bread products (loaves,
steam toasting, and Combi steam-reheat)
Between the Combi, steel, and ~10 minutes of daily work, it's like having a gourmet bakery here 24/7! I used to just brute-force everything same-day or plan stuff out a few days in advanced, but decentralized meal-prepping is the bomb dot com!!