The Only 8 Baking Tips You Will Ever Need (ft @LifebyMikeG)

מצרכים

• 1. Understand the science. Fermentation and gluten, know these two and you stop depending on recipes.
• 2. Bake with a healthy, active starter. Bubbles and doubling predict the loaf better than anything else.
• 3. Understand your hydration. Every flour drinks water differently.
• 4. Control your fermentation time. Temperature and the fridge, one day or three days,
• 5. Stop adding flour while you work the dough. Extra flour silently changes your
• 6. Ferment in a marked container. You see exactly when the dough has doubled.
• 7. Upgrade your basic tools. Worth 5 to 10 percent on every loaf.
• 8. You can always improve. Your first loaves are supposed to be bad, and even a bad homemade loaf beats the supermarket.