Make your own bread during Covid-19 times

https://github.com/hendricius/the-bread-code/blob/31668dc975adb39c9ce3afcd3eee8e469f3b1c76/basics/basic-dough.md

by hendricius • 6 years ago

3 4 6 years ago

I make bread all the time, I have never weighed out my water. Anyways for those who don't know 1 gram of water equals 1 milliliter. When it comes to the water flour ratio in bread making it's more of an estimate than exact measure, altitude,ambient humidity, flour type and age will all change the optimum ratio. This recipe is a great starting point for beginners and learning to bake bread seems like a great stay at home activity it makes your home smell good too. I suggest toasting your bread slices before eating if you are new to baking with yeast.

wbraun• 6 years ago

I have been meaning to try making my own bread. Now that I am on lockdown I have even more incentive. I like that all the recipes in the repo are FOSS. Got to break free from big bread!

Why do you recommend toasting the bread? Is it something related to the yeast or just the fact that my first few attempts may be a bit unpalatable?

tomcam• 6 years ago

Sidenote: in the USA, all recipes are FOSS. They cannot be copyrighted.

sigmaprimus2• 6 years ago

Yes I recommend toasting of yeast breads if your new to baking bread, mainly to reduce the chance of exasperating a Candia infection from consuming live yeast.

If you bake bread properly all the yeast will die, but it is pretty easy to underbake it, especially if your new at it.

I found the main reasons I underbaked in the beginning were opening the oven to check it, stopping early because it looks dark and the most common way was not letting it cool before cutting into it. (Bread keeps cooking on the inside after you take it out and when you slice it too early it looses it's internal temperature too fast)

Toasting it will kill of most live yeast. Another really good tip I don't see in recipes is while your bread is still warm but not hot enough to melt a plastic bag, wrap it up in the bag and the remaining moisture in the bread will soften the crust.

Nothing worse than a sharp, rock hard crust around a slice of soft bread.. IMHO.

Good luck!!

Make your own bread during Covid-19 times

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