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My worst Kimble effort is pictured below. Something that isn’t clear but is mentioned somewhere is that the recipes are the upper limit of hydration, ymmv and reduce the water.
I think it’d be much better if a range of water was suggested and that you start at the lower edge and then increase. I started to become frustrated as clearly my flour is not as thirsty as hers and I could just about make a boule but there was no skin tension and i could do multiple pre shapes but the bread would never hold shape, after a night of retarded proving the dough would almost pour out of the banneton and the loaf below just became dog snack.
I think her recipes are tasty but would start out knocking 100ml to 150ml of water off each one. But higher hydration loaves do tend to have less rise and spring and actually looking at a lot of the images hers are not super lufty or showing great ears.
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