/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14367241
>femanon
nice, but don't say it out loud, its quite hard to find women that good in cooking/baking
here is my last failure, post crumb and recipe later

>>14367256
>vagina yeast
the fuck man, isn't this a meme or does it work for real?

Ok here comes the fuckup from today
this is >>14347433
besides screwing up hydration (I aimed for a lower), I also screwed up a bit of proofing time, because I started on the afternoon but fell asleep for an hour or so,
so I switched from my plan to make a long baguette loafs to a plain round one (because it certainly wouldn't hold shape anyway)
after just 5 hours from the initial mix, it was already overproofed, it barely grew in the form so I really didn't think it was a problem,
but on top of that, I also screwed moving the bread to the pan, since I didn't want to use parchment paper anymore, I moved it to a plate which it stuck to, and the to the pan, which cause some grave deflation
to put some move gravy on the list of mistakes, I kinda forgot the thing in the oven, but still that didn't seem to make it worse at all, the stayed on at max for 1h30m, of which the first 15 min were heating, and the last 20 min with the top off (for anyone still doubting my oven is fucked up)
ingredients:
200g starter levain (50/50 wholemeal/water)
400g AP white flour
200g water
15~20g salt

>>14349619
I never got a solid answer on how much you're supposed to use of levain, I've been experimenting on that range, 200g being the high end, and 100g being on the low, the difference always being going way overproof or way underproofed
it definitely makes the dough a lot stickier, specially today I had trouble getting the starter to mix in water, it just wouldn't mix, and then when adding the whole thing to the dough I could clearly feel the starter kinda being on its own, sticky and whatnot, which is why I think sometimes I got so much difference in crumb texture on different parts of the bread
but overall really weird cause I don't remember having so much trouble with it when I begun, today specially I used the starter at its peak, nearly about to go overboard, having fed it just 5~6h before,