I still remember my nibling reading Walden in high school and their response was, and I quote, "Check your privilege you fucking twat." Somehow they expanded that into a two-page essay but really I think that's all that needs to be said.
I found and corrected a fourth likely failure point: My slashes were possibly not slashy enough? I do not have a lame, so I'm using the sharpest knife available. I had to make sure the cuts actually penetrated the loaf... they say the slashes are to keep the loaf from bursting but I think the steam was getting trapped and just causing problems.
And I did end up with Actually Bread instead of Almost Bread! It was a denser loaf than I wanted/was expecting, and I found but did not correct two more likely points of failure: #5, more likely to be a problem in winter: proofing spot not warm enough?; #6: vessel in which the dough is proofing is too flat bottomed/horizontal, not conical/vertical enough?
(Unsurprisingly King Arthur will sell me solutions to all these problems, but I'm not ready to buy a $30 tool when I haven't exhausted my other options yet, much less a $200 countertop proofing drawer, jeez...)
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Date: 2022-09-25 05:59 pm (UTC)I found and corrected a fourth likely failure point: My slashes were possibly not slashy enough? I do not have a lame, so I'm using the sharpest knife available. I had to make sure the cuts actually penetrated the loaf... they say the slashes are to keep the loaf from bursting but I think the steam was getting trapped and just causing problems.
And I did end up with Actually Bread instead of Almost Bread! It was a denser loaf than I wanted/was expecting, and I found but did not correct two more likely points of failure: #5, more likely to be a problem in winter: proofing spot not warm enough?; #6: vessel in which the dough is proofing is too flat bottomed/horizontal, not conical/vertical enough?
(Unsurprisingly King Arthur will sell me solutions to all these problems, but I'm not ready to buy a $30 tool when I haven't exhausted my other options yet, much less a $200 countertop proofing drawer, jeez...)