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\section{Debugging your crumb structure}
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\section{Debugging your crumb structure}%
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\label{section:debugging-crumb-structure}
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The crumb structure of your bread provides insights into how well
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\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{crumb-structures-book}
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\caption{A schematic visualization of different crumb structures and their respective causes. The
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final bread's crumb is a key aspect to identify potential issues related to fermentation
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or baking technique.}
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or baking technique.}%
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\label{fig:crumb-structures-book}
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\end{figure}
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\begin{figure}
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\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{open-crumb}
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\caption{The bread has a somewhat open crumb with areas
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featuring a honeycomb structure.}
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featuring a honeycomb structure.}%
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\label{fig:open-crumb}
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\end{figure}
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It takes a lot of skill both in terms of mastering fermentation and technique
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to achieve a crumb structure like that.
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Personally, I like a bread like that, just with a slightly less wild crumb.
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The style of crumb I like is called the {\it honeycomb crumb}. It's not too open, but
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Personally, I~like a bread like that, just with a slightly less wild crumb.
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The style of crumb I~like is called the \emph{honeycomb crumb}. It's not too open, but
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just enough open to make the bread very fluffy. To achieve the previously mentioned open crumb, you
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have to touch your dough as little as possible. The more you interact with your
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dough, the more you are degassing your dough. Excess touching of the dough
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@@ -44,12 +44,13 @@ That's why achieving such a crumb works best if you only ferment
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one loaf at a time. Normally, if you have to pre-shape your dough,
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you will automatically degas your dough a little bit during the rounding process.
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If you skip this step and directly shape your dough, you will achieve a more open crumb.
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A good rule of thumb is to not touch your dough for at least 1-2 hours before shaping,
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A good rule of thumb is to not touch your dough for at least 1--2 hours before shaping,
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to achieve as open a crumb as possible.
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\begin{figure}
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\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{honeycomb}
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\caption{A whole wheat sourdough with an almost exclusive honeycomb crumb structure.}
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\caption{A whole wheat sourdough with an almost exclusive honeycomb crumb
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structure.}%
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\label{fig:honeycomb}
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\end{figure}
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@@ -69,34 +70,34 @@ there is not enough gas to inflate the structures. To me this is the perfect
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style of crumb. As someone who appreciates jam, no jam will fall through a slice
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of this bread compared to an open crumb.
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\subsection{Overfermented}
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\subsection{Overfermented}%
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\label{sec:overfermented-dough}
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\begin{figure}
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\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{fermented-too-long}
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\caption{A relatively flat dough that has many tiny pockets of air.}
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\caption{A relatively flat dough that has many tiny pockets of air.}%
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\label{fig:fermented-too-long}
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\end{figure}
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When fermenting your dough for too long, the protease enzyme starts to
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break down the gluten of your flour. Furthermore, the bacteria consume the gluten
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in a process called {\it proteolysis} \cite{raffaella+di+cagno}.
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Bakers also refer to this process as {\it gluten rot}.
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in a process called \emph{proteolysis}~\cite{raffaella+di+cagno}.
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Bakers also refer to this process as \emph{gluten rot}.
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The gluten that normally traps the \ch{CO2} created
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by the fermentation process of your microorganisms can no longer keep the
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gas inside of the dough. The gas disperses outward resulting in smaller alveoli in your crumb.
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The bread itself tends to be very flat in the oven. Bakers often refer
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to this style of bread as a {\it pancake}. The oven spring can be compared
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to this style of bread as a \emph{pancake}. The oven spring can be compared
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to bread doughs made out of low-gluten flour like einkorn.
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Your bread will feature a lot of acidity, a really strong distinctive tang. From
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a taste perspective, it might be a little bit too sour. From my own tests with family and
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friends (n=15-20), I can say that this style of bread is typically
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appreciated less. However, I personally really like the hearty strong taste.
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friends (n=15--20), I~can say that this style of bread is typically
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appreciated less. However, I~personally really like the hearty strong taste.
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It is excellent in combination with something
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sweet or a soup. From a consistency perspective, it is no longer as fluffy as it could be.
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The crumb might also taste a little bit gummy. That's because it has been broken down a lot
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by the bacteria. Furthermore, this style of bread has a significantly lower amount of gluten \cite{raffaella+di+cagno}
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by the bacteria. Furthermore, this style of bread has a significantly lower amount of gluten~\cite{raffaella+di+cagno}
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and is no longer comparable to raw flour, it's a fully fermented product.
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You can compare it with a blue cheese that is almost lactose free.
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very sticky. You can no longer properly shape and work the dough. When trying to
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remove the dough from a banneton, the dough flattens out a lot. Furthermore,
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in many cases your dough might stick to the banneton. When beginning with baking
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I would use a lot of rice flour in my banneton to dry out the surface of the dough a lot.
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I~would use a lot of rice flour in my banneton to dry out the surface of the dough a lot.
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This way the dough wouldn't stick, despite being overfermented. However as it
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turns out the stickiness issue has been my lack of understanding the fermentation
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process. Now I never use rice flour, except when trying to apply decorative scorings.
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process. Now I~never use rice flour, except when trying to apply decorative scorings.
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Properly managing fermentation results in a dough that is not sticky.
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If you are noticing, during a stretch and fold or during shaping, that your dough
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@@ -121,11 +122,11 @@ you can simply pour some of your dough directly into a heated pan with a bit of
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oil. It will make delicious sourdough flatbreads.
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To fix issues related to over-fermentation, you need to stop the fermentation process
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earlier. What I like to do is to extract a small fermentation sample from my dough.
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Depending on the volume increase of this sample, I can mostly judge when my fermentation
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earlier. What I~like to do is to extract a small fermentation sample from my dough.
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Depending on the volume increase of this sample, I~can mostly judge when my fermentation
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is finished. Try to start with a 25 percent volume increase of your main dough or sample.
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Depending on how much gluten your flour has, you can ferment for a longer period of time.
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With a strong flour featuring a 14-15 percent protein, you should be able to safely
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With a strong flour featuring a 14--15 percent protein, you should be able to safely
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ferment until a 100 percent size increase. This however also depends on your
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sourdough starter's composition of yeast and bacteria. The more bacterial fermentation,
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the faster your dough structure breaks down. Frequent feedings of your sourdough
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\begin{figure}
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\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{fermented-too-short-underbaked}
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\caption{A dense dough featuring a gummy, not fully gelatinized area.
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The picture has been provided by the user wahlfeld from our community Discord server.}
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The picture has been provided by the user wahlfeld from our community
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Discord server.}%
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\label{fig:fermented-too-short-underbaked}
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\end{figure}
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This defect is also commonly referred to as {\it underproofed}. However underproofed
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This defect is also commonly referred to as \emph{underproofed}. However underproofed
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is not a good term as it only refers to having a short final
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proofing stage of the bread-making process.
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If you were to bake your bread after a perfectly-timed bulk fermentation stage,
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has gelatinized, the alveoli holds their shape and no longer expand. During this
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process other parts of the bread dough are pushed outwards. That's why an underfermented
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dough sometimes even features an ear during the baking process. This
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is also commonly referred to as a {\it fool's crumb}. You are excited about an ear which
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is also commonly referred to as a \emph{fool's crumb}. You are excited about an ear which
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can be quite hard to achieve. Plus you might think you finally created some big pockets
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of air in your crumb. But in reality you fermented for too short a period
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of time.
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\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{fools-crumb}
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\caption{A typical example of a fool's crumb featuring an ear and several overly
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large alveoli. The picture has been provided by Rochelle from our
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community Discord server.}
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community Discord server.}%
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\label{fools-crumb}
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\end{figure}
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for a longer period of time. Now, there is an upper limit to fermentation time
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as your flour starts to break down the moment it is in contact with water. That's why it
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might be a good idea to simply speed up your fermentation process. As a rough
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figure, I try to aim for a bulk fermentation time of around 8-12 hours typically.
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figure, I~try to aim for a bulk fermentation time of around 8--12 hours typically.
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To achieve that you can try to make your sourdough starter more active. This can be done
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by feeding your starter daily over several days. Use the same ratio as you would
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do for your main bread dough. Assuming you use 20 percent starter calculated on the flour,
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\begin{figure}
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\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{flat-bread}
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\caption{A very flat bread without enough dough strength.}
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\caption{A very flat bread without enough dough strength.}%
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\label{flat-bread}
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\end{figure}
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proofed your dough for too long. Over time the gluten relaxes and your dough
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becomes more and more extensible. You can observe the gluten relaxing behavior
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too when making a pizza pie. Directly after shaping your dough balls, it's very hard to shape
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the pizza pie. If you wait for 30-90 minutes stretching the dough becomes a lot easier.
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the pizza pie. If you wait for 30--90 minutes stretching the dough becomes a lot easier.
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The easiest way to fix this is probably to knead your dough more at the start. To simplify
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things consider using less water for your flour too. This will result in a more elastic dough
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\begin{figure}
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\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{baked-too-hot-v2}
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\caption{A bread with very large alveoli close to the crust}
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\caption{A bread with very large alveoli close to the crust.}%
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\label{baked-too-hot}
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\end{figure}
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experiments, it seems that my sweet spot for maximum oven spring seems to be
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at around 230°C (446°F). Test the temperature of your oven, because in several
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cases the displayed temperature might not match the actual temperature of your
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oven \cite{too+hot+baking}. Make sure to turn off the fan of your oven. Most
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oven~\cite{too+hot+baking}. Make sure to turn off the fan of your oven. Most
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home ovens are designed to vent the steam as fast as possible. If you can not
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turn the fan off, consider using a Dutch oven.
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\begin{figure}[h]
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\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{no-steam}
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\caption{One of my earlier breads that I baked at a friend's place where
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I couldn't steam the dough properly}
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\caption{One of my earlier breads that I~baked at a friend's place where
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I~couldn't steam the dough properly.}%
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\label{no-steam}
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\end{figure}
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Similar to baking too hot, when baking without enough steam, your dough's crust
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forms too quickly. It's hard to spot the difference between the two mistakes.
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I typically first ask about the temperature and then about the steaming technique
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I~typically first ask about the temperature and then about the steaming technique
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to determine what might be wrong with the baking process. Too little steam can
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typically be spotted by having a thick crust around all around your dough paired
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with large alveoli towards the edges.
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\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{apple-experiment-temperatures}
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\caption{An apple with 2 probes to measure ambient
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and surface temperatures of several steaming techniques
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in a Dutch oven.}
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in a Dutch oven.}%
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\label{apple-experiment-temperatures}
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\end{figure}
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Now there can also be too much steam. For this I tested using a Dutch oven paired with large ice
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Now there can also be too much steam. For this I~tested using a Dutch oven paired with large ice
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cubes to provide additional steam. The temperature of my dough's surface would directly
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jump close to 100°C. The steam contains more energy and thus through convection
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can heat up the surface of your dough faster. I tested this by putting an apple inside
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can heat up the surface of your dough faster. I~tested this by putting an apple inside
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a Dutch oven and measuring its surface temperature using a barbecue thermometer.
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I then changed the steaming methods to plot how quickly the temperature
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close to the surface changes. I tested an ice cube inside of a preheated
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I~then changed the steaming methods to plot how quickly the temperature
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close to the surface changes. I~tested an ice cube inside of a preheated
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Dutch oven, a preheated Dutch oven, a preheated Dutch oven with spritzes
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of water on the apple's surface, a non-preheated Dutch oven where I would only preheat
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of water on the apple's surface, a non-preheated Dutch oven where I~would only preheat
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the bottom part. The experiment then showed that the ice-cube method would heat up
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the surface of the apple a lot quicker. When replicating this with a bread dough,
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I would achieve less oven spring.
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I~would achieve less oven spring.
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\begin{figure}[h]
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\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{apple-experiment-surface-temperatures}
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\caption{A chart showing how the temperature of the surface
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of the apple changes with different steaming techniques.}
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of the apple changes with different steaming techniques.}%
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\label{apple-experiment-surface-temperatures}
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\end{figure}
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\begin{figure}[h]
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\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{apple-experiment-ambient-temperatures}
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\caption{This figure shows how the ambient temperatures inside of the
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Dutch oven change depending on the steaming technique that is used.}
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Dutch oven change depending on the steaming technique that is used.}%
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\label{apple-experiment-ambient-temperatures}
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\end{figure}
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Generally though, achieving too much steam is relatively challenging. I could only
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Generally though, achieving too much steam is relatively challenging. I~could only
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make this mistake when using a Dutch oven as the steaming method paired with relatively
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large ice cubes. After talking with other bakers using the same Dutch oven, it seems
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that my ice cubes (around 80g) were 4 times as heavy as the ones other bakers
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