I seem to be avoiding pancake flat loaves at last.
Having been away from home for 4 weeks, I have been using a lidless deep iron pan for baking in, and my loaves always seemed to spring up quite nicely (even though the oven was appalling at keeping a constant temperature)
My first loaf since being back has done well , sticking with the lidless approach.
It also turns out that my oven doesn't quite get as hot as I thought (or my thermometer is out), and only ever really hits 225 degrees.
I seem to be avoiding pancake flat loaves at last.
Having been away from home for 4 weeks, I have been using a lidless deep iron pan for baking in, and my loaves always seemed to spring up quite nicely (even though the oven was appalling at keeping a constant temperature)
My first loaf since being back has done well , sticking with the lidless approach.
It also turns out that my oven doesn't quite get as hot as I thought (or my thermometer is out), and only ever really hits 225 degrees.