2lb loaf of Cin/Raison and a 2lb loaf of Honey Wheat
UMMMUMMMMM
nothing says lovin like something from the oven WOOO WOOO
UMMMUMMMMM
nothing says lovin like something from the oven WOOO WOOO
Originally posted by: djheater
I used to bake for an artisanal bakery. It's a wonderful art making bread. I want to build one of these in the next couple of years...
Originally posted by: biggestmuff
Originally posted by: djheater
I used to bake for an artisanal bakery. It's a wonderful art making bread. I want to build one of these in the next couple of years...
Cool. Do you have any pointers to baking bread at home?
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: biggestmuff
Originally posted by: djheater
I used to bake for an artisanal bakery. It's a wonderful art making bread. I want to build one of these in the next couple of years...
Cool. Do you have any pointers to baking bread at home?
1) buy a bread machine
2) get bread machine cookbook
3) ...
4) proft
Originally posted by: biggestmuff
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: biggestmuff
Originally posted by: djheater
I used to bake for an artisanal bakery. It's a wonderful art making bread. I want to build one of these in the next couple of years...
Cool. Do you have any pointers to baking bread at home?
1) buy a bread machine
2) get bread machine cookbook
3) ...
4) proft
I don't need no stinkin' machine to make bread.
I have one, but it sucks. Every loaf I've made in it comes out way too dense. I've had better luck using the oven and a 9 inch bread pan.
Originally posted by: djheater
Originally posted by: biggestmuff
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: biggestmuff
Originally posted by: djheater
I used to bake for an artisanal bakery. It's a wonderful art making bread. I want to build one of these in the next couple of years...
Cool. Do you have any pointers to baking bread at home?
1) buy a bread machine
2) get bread machine cookbook
3) ...
4) proft
I don't need no stinkin' machine to make bread.
I have one, but it sucks. Every loaf I've made in it comes out way too dense. I've had better luck using the oven and a 9 inch bread pan.
Get a better machine? Your rising time is too short, you're adding to much salt, or your yeast is dead.
I have no trouble using my mahcine to bake sandwich bread, it's damn convenient.
If I'm feeling fancy I use the bread machine to mix the dough, and raise it once, then I take it out, punch it down, shape it, let it rise again and bake it in the oven.
The trick in the oven is to use a spray bottle of water. Spray it well before you put the bread it and at least once during baking. High humidity is required to form a light crispy crust.
If I ever do build that oven I'll probably start culturing my own sourdoughs... mmmmm.....
Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
As a kid I remember a family that ran a Mexican restaurant in Tempe, Arizona and Grandma would make that nights tortilla outside on a wood-burning granite slab.
Children would gather from everywhere when she baked them, and she would butter one up for each starving waif that looked up with begging eyes.
Delicious.
Later while in Jr. High a large family from Oklahoma moved into the neighborhood in Brawley, California and she would bake up a week ahead each Wednesday.
Amazing how the smell of fresh baking bread attracts rug-rats and ankle-biters of every age - right up through their teens into adulthood.
Now near where I am living, we are working across the street from a Folger's Coffee roasting plant - it sometimes gets so intense that it smells like a burning Bakelite plastic.
When it gets foggy the odor clings close to the ground and permeates the area for miles, depending on the breeze direction.