Bread

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My wife put me in charge of snacks for the hospital while she’s having our baby. Went for a focaccia with roasted tomatoes and burata As part of the hamper. I’m more excited about the sandwich than anything else right now.

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That is a fit sarnie. Best of luck with the whole thing!

Just freestyled a white dough, although I think I've been a bit ambitious firing in with 80% hydration. Lots of stretching and folding to come. Gonna bake one this eve and bang the other in the fridge to have tomorrow - maybe as pizza.

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Reality

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Damage limitation

Pizza stone on a shelf below the cast iron pot is the solution apparently, will try again tomorrow.

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Just made focaccia

Super airy and light

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I’d hit that.

Final pic. Not bad for a quick and dirty effort.

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First attempt at pizza last night, didn't go too badly! Cheap OO grade flour, needed a bit more salt but was a tasty first attempt.

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Get ye to the pizza thread >>>

Left the second half of yesterday’s dough in the fridge and baked as focaccia today. Pretty happy with both considering they were just freestyled.

Pizza stone below baking tray has prevented burnt bottom too!

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Hands up if you can't bulk buy flour online like you normally do because of this fucking virus

My mistake! Here's a couple of basic cobs from a couple of weeks back.

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Bread flour section was decimated in Tesco last night. About 3 bags of khorsan left!

Wild garlic loaf

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Waitrose in Canary Wharf last night. Honestly couldn't believe it

Get yourself to a wholesaler.

I was amazed at the run on flour; I've had to make sourdough with the strong flour I had in the cupboard, as all the extra strong had gone. Are all these people actually capable of/really going to bake their own?

Course they are, just like they're shitting themselves much more often than previously.

Same here in Belgium. Flour is always stocked. Now there was nothing to be found. Amazing.

Was running low on flour as was a neighbour so we placed a joint order for nearly 60kg yesterday so we get the free next day shipping from bakery bits.

I mean, that's just panic buying with extra steps ;)

It's mental. The only thing that's missing from every shelf in Hackney at the moment is strong white bread flour.

We both usually buy 25kg sacks of organic white flour each and then a few bags of spelt, wholemeal etc so this is a normal size order. But given how supermarkets are selling out we placed our order a week or two earlier than necessary. However I am guessing specialist retailers aren’t having quite the extreme run on stock as general supermarkets.