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That looks really good. Sourdough? I find that a serrated knife does the job for me but it needs to be sharp.

Me too.

Thanks Andya

Same for me. A bit more for Ciabatta etc.

The seeded brown were made in bread pans which effectively shape your loaf. (see Amazon) The fruit bread was tensioned as @ancient_mariner mentions but by forming a ball with cupped hands so that you stretch the top surface as you push your hands underneath the ball. Not a very good...

Today's batch. Cinnamon, fruit and walnut loaves. One for us and one for some good neighbours who were kind enough to look out for us during a recent bout of Corvid.

That's a difficult question Steve. It would depend on your weight of dough and its hydration etc. but somewhere around 8 to 12 mins would be my best guess. However, my best friend is a cooking thermometer. Bread is about ready when the internal temp. reaches about 196 - 200 degrees...

Thanks @ancient_mariner. Yes, in fact we cut them in half so that we can just take what we need from the freezer at any one time (only the two of us). I tend to bake loaves three at a time, Baps (brown and White) 18 - 20 at a time and Panini using the stretch and fold method (gives a much...

Today's batch of seeded brown.

Topaz denoise AI is my first port of call for noise reduction but when it comes to sharpening, Adobe's smart smart sharpener seems to do a good a job as any unless it's a real problem , in which case I generally resort to the low pass sharpening method.

A tight crumb is usually down to not enough kneading/1st proving time. I use two methods. The first is the standard 65%-68% hydration (depends on your flour and your kitchen) with 7g of quick yeast or 2.5 - 3tsp of dried yeast per 500g of flour (which I prefer). The second method is stretch...

Im local enough to go but I haven't ben there for years. I'm clearly missing something. The lighting you have captured on the last two is particularly nice. Very nice series.

I abandoned my x-Pro1 for the XT series because I found the ergonomics difficult but there is no doubt that the X-Pro 1 sensor has a nice quality about it that the later iterations don't quite match up to (IMHO :)). Nicely captured series.

An enjoyable docuseries of a place that I will now never go to.