Current Events > The bread went quite well today (pic)

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I understand the french would call all those blisters an imperfection but...fuck the french
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Looks great!

Explain to me something about bread by the by, the whole hard outer layer and soft inner layer thing... is that what people want? Are you supposed to eat the hard outside part? Because I always cut up the sides of my mouth when I bite into a sandwich that has used that kind of bread.
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saspa posted...

Looks great!

Explain to me something about bread by the by, the whole hard outer layer and soft inner layer thing... is that what people want? Are you supposed to eat the hard outside part? Because I always cut up the sides of my mouth when I bite into a sandwich that has used that kind of bread.

Good question actually, I've wondered this myself. Sometimes I think we get too obsessed with a good looking crust which results in a difficult to eat piece of bread.

The other point of view is that the crust protects the inside of the bread as it cooks.

I find it quite hard myself to balance this. Here's another one I did with a similar recipe, but under different conditions.


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Bread
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saspa posted...

Looks great!

Explain to me something about bread by the by, the whole hard outer layer and soft inner layer thing... is that what people want? Are you supposed to eat the hard outside part? Because I always cut up the sides of my mouth when I bite into a sandwich that has used that kind of bread.

Imo a nice crust makes it so tasty and fresh, but if you cut yourself on it its baked badly and its too hard.

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Damn that shit looks like something I could buy from a grocery store. Now I want some bread.
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pkmnlord posted...

Damn that shit looks like something I could buy from a grocery store. Now I want some bread.

Bread is easy to make, incredibly hard to master and always looks impressive.

The real test is gonna be when I open it up to examine the crumb.
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pinky0926 posted...

saspa posted...

Looks great!

Explain to me something about bread by the by, the whole hard outer layer and soft inner layer thing... is that what people want? Are you supposed to eat the hard outside part? Because I always cut up the sides of my mouth when I bite into a sandwich that has used that kind of bread.

Good question actually, I've wondered this myself. Sometimes I think we get too obsessed with a good looking crust which results in a difficult to eat piece of bread.

The other point of view is that the crust protects the inside of the bread as it cooks.

I find it quite hard myself to balance this. Here's another one I did with a similar recipe, but under different conditions.

Yeah that one looks very sub sandwich shop type, very nice.

Protecting the inside does sound like a pretty convincing reason.
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That looks superb. I do a lot of cooking, but never tried my hand at bread. What you posted could be in a magazine it looks so good. Much respect.

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MabusIncarnate posted...

That looks superb. I do a lot of cooking, but never tried my hand at bread. What you posted could be in a magazine it looks so good. Much respect.

Thanks!

It's quite different to cooking I find because you have to be quite exact in your measurements and then less exact with timing.
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damn looks good
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