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  • Tried this technique last night. Either I was doing it wrong or I had way too much water. I watched the vid 3 times whilst I was trying it so pretty sure it was the latter. What sort of ratios are you guys doing when you do high hydration? I just made mine up on a whim - 400g flour to 300g water. The dough was super sloppy even after it had come together with the slap method.

    I ended up basically baking a puddle but it rose in the oven and ended up sort of looking like bread but nowhere close to my normal efforts.

  • My latest loaf was 70% hydration, came out fine. That's using Sainsbury's own "strong white bread flour"(tm).

    Autolysis for 20-30 minutes before adding the starter helps with gluten formation. But yeah, 75% sounds like it's pushing it. I'll try that next! :)

  • Tesco stuff is shit, but they do an 'extra strong' which isn't bad. Aldi is surprisingly good for the price too.

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