Add more faq items (#57)

This adds more frequently asked questions and possible troubleshooting.
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flour. The first bread might not go exactly as you
planned, but you will get there eventually. Each
feeding makes your starter stronger and stronger.
\section{My flour has low gluten content - what should I do?}
You can always mix in a little bit of vital wheat gluten. Vital wheat gluten
is concentrated extracted gluten from wheat flour.
I recommend that you add around 5 grams of wheat gluten for every 100 grams of
flour that you are using.
\section{What's a good level of water (hydration) to make a dough?}
Especially when starting to make bread use lower amounts of water. This will
greatly simplify the whole process. I recommend using a level of around 60
percent hydration. So for every 100 grams of flour use around 60 grams of water.
This ballpark figure will work for most flours. With this hydration, you can
make bread, buns, pizzas, and even baguettes out of the same dough.
With the lower hydration dough handling becomes easier and you have more yeast
fermentation, resulting in lower overfermentation risk.
\section{What's the best stage to incorporate inclusions (seeds) into the dough?}
You can include seeds directly at the start when mixing the dough. If you use
whole seeds such as wheat or rye kernels, soak them in water overnight and
then rinse them before adding them to the dough. This makes sure that they
are not crunchy and soft enough when eating the bread. If you forgot to soak
them you can cook the seeds for 10 minutes in hot water. Rinse them with cold
water before adding them to your dough.
If you want to sweeten the dough your best option is to add sugar during the
shaping stage. Initial sugar is typically fermented and no residual sugar
remains. Adjust your shaping technique a little bit and spread your sugar
mixture over a flattened-out dough. You can then roll the dough together
incorporating layers of sugar.
\section{My dough sample (aliquot) doesn't rise, what's wrong?}
If you see that your dough rises in size but your aliquot doesn't chances
are that both are fermenting at a different speed. This can often
happen when the temperature in your kitchen changes. The aliquot
is more susceptible to temperature changes than the main dough.
Because the sample is smaller in size it will heat up or cool down
faster.
For this reason, you must use room-temperature water when
making your dough. By having the same temperature in both the sample
and your dough you make sure that both ferment at the same rate.
If the temperature in your room changes significantly during the day, your
best option is to use a see-through container. Mark the container to properly
measure your dough's size increase.
Another option could be to use a more expensive pH meter to measure your
dough's acidity buildup. You can read more about different ways of managing
bulk fermentation in section ~\ref{section:bulk-fermentation}.

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\section{Bulk fermentation}
\label{section:bulk-fermentation}
After mixing the starter into your dough the next stage of
the process known as bulk fermentation begins. The term