Fresh bread

[Griffin]

Okay I'll admit, I've been cheating by using a bread machine all these years but I did get a WonderMill Junior (https://pleasanthillgrain.com/wonder-junior-deluxe-grain-mill) about 5 years ago to grind my own grains (though it has gotten dusty the last few). Problem now is yeast is hard to find along with flour.
I dug out the mill last week, dusted it off and ground some spelt and buckwheat. I started a wild yeast culture 4 days ago and today it finally showed a noticeable separation of floating liquid.
Hopefully I can try my hand at some sourdough next weekend.

Anyone here already doing this?

[Godfather]

Having trouble finding baking supplies too but a restaurant near my place just sold me 10lbs of flour so I'm back in business!

My MIL has sourdough starter so I may give it a try, but zero clue what I'm doing. I did make buns last week that turned out well so I'm hopeful I won't fuck it up.

[Griffin]

but zero clue what I'm doing

I'm betting you can find a Youtube Rabbit Hole to fall into. ;)

[DemonGeminiX]

Oddly enough, yeast and flour are easy to find where I'm at. I guess people around here just aren't that destitute yet. I haven't started baking yet, though, but I will say homemade fresh baked bread is all that and then some.

[RBP]

I'll wait in Bernie's breadline. :hand:

[Griffin]

Scored a jar of yeast and a bag of all purpose. Made a loaf of potato bread when I got home.
Butter melted nicely while the loaf was still hot.

[lost in melb.]

I think I have a bread maker in the cupboard :-k

[lost in melb.]

I'll wait in Bernie's breadline. :hand:

You wait loooong time :haha:

[Griffin]

I think I have a bread maker in the cupboard :-k

You should let her out.

[Godfather]

Oddly enough, yeast and flour are easy to find where I'm at. I guess people around here just aren't that destitute yet. I haven't started baking yet, though, but I will say homemade fresh baked bread is all that and then some.

Honestly I think it's not so much destitution as it is a mix of boredom and suddenly trendy - flour and puzzles are as rare as Purell here :lol: Half my instagram feed is friends baking to kill the time, I don't think they're too broke for a loaf... yet.

[RBP]

You should let her out.

:rimshot:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I'll wait in Bernie's breadline. :hand:

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[Godfather]

Alright, I'm in possession of sourdough starter. Buddy dropped it off the other day with TWO PAGES of instructions including diagrams and extremely specific rules :lol: I'm watching youtubes now but I'm intimidated. I'm a cook, not a baker.

Apparently I still need whole wheat flour because using a mix of all purpose and whole makes for more sour bread? I dono, I may just give it a whirl with all purpose only because that's all I have.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Alright, I'm in possession of sourdough starter. Buddy dropped it off the other day with TWO PAGES of instructions including diagrams and extremely specific rules :lol: I'm watching youtubes now but I'm intimidated. I'm a cook, not a baker.

Apparently I still need whole wheat flour because using a mix of all purpose and whole makes for more sour bread? I dono, I may just give it a whirl with all purpose only because that's all I have.

You are part of the problem :hand:

Sourdough bread-making increases in popularity amid quarantine, prompts criticism: 'Wasteful and difficult' (https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/sourdough-wars-spark-quarantine-baking)

[Godfather]

You are part of the problem :hand:

Sourdough bread-making increases in popularity amid quarantine, prompts criticism: 'Wasteful and difficult' (https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/sourdough-wars-spark-quarantine-baking)

:rofl: What a headline



A tweet by user HelloCVH seems to have initiated the whole debate, suggesting that baking's skyrocketing popularity came at a very inconvenient time.

“Sourdough is wasteful and difficult and it's very silly to try your hand at it for the first time in a pandemic when there's barely any flour on the shelves[.] This is my lukewarm & scoldy take,” the tweet read.

Fuck off :lol:

[Muddy]

Ya'll suck.. I love bread but am trying to limit my intake of it.. This thread has me second guessing all that.

[Griffin]

Made a pretty good spiced applesauce bread (https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/17683/spiced-applesauce-bread/?clickId=right%20rail0&internalSource=rr_feed_recipe_sb&referringId=60037%20referringContentType%3Drecipe) today. I used coconut oil to grease the pan and added coconut flakes to the recipe.

[KevinD]

My wife used to make fresh bread.i loved it. Gonna have to have her start making it again.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

I made a sourdough starter (unbleached flour, water) last week collecting airborne yeast, made bread last night



https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.15752-9/92817727_2401532473480878_9190759839075139584_n.jp g?_nc_cat=109&_nc_sid=b96e70&_nc_ohc=gLOcBFWacNgAX80GtEO&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-1.xx&oh=2909a9df4a85084509e50ea6b0a896ee&oe=5EB50926

Starter Day 1
https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.15752-9/92337824_2575131976138840_8918886523747696640_n.jp g?_nc_cat=101&_nc_sid=b96e70&_nc_ohc=rJAqMO62D_kAX_RCSch&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-1.xx&oh=172ed2fa8742eccb67795738235e274a&oe=5EB47619

[deebakes]

I made a sourdough starter (unbleached flour, water) last week collecting airborne yeast

you should probably get her checked out :shrug:

[Muddy]

"airborne yeast" I don't know what that is... It's a shame I don't have something that can look up information like that.

[deebakes]

"airborne yeast" I don't know what that is... It's a shame I don't have something that can look up information like that.

https://www.canadianbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/f0c439d2440c913146ef69396fb1.jpg

[Muddy]

https://www.canadianbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/f0c439d2440c913146ef69396fb1.jpg

I was just going to ask my Gram-pa..

[Griffin]

I made a sourdough starter (unbleached flour, water) last week collecting airborne yeast, made bread last night

My starter has been trying for 6 days and still isn't very active. Hopefully I can use it Saturday.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

My starter has been trying for 6 days and still isn't very active. Hopefully I can use it Saturday.

Since it has been cold I had the same issue. I found leaving it near the over has been helpful :tup:

[Griffin]

I think it was because I started it with spelt berries I had just ground and it was too coarse. The last three days I have been feeding it with all purpose and today it nearly doubled in 4 hours.
I think I will name it Abby. ( Young Frankenstein)

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Abby Normal?

[RBP]

I read this thread as French Bread. Every. Damn. Time.

[RBP]

Ya'll suck.. I love bread but am trying to limit my intake of it.. This thread has me second guessing all that.

Fuck that. Eat what you love. You'll gain more years from joy than from draconian diets.

[Griffin]

bon jour

[Godfather]

I made a sourdough starter (unbleached flour, water) last week collecting airborne yeast, made bread last night



https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.15752-9/92817727_2401532473480878_9190759839075139584_n.jp g?_nc_cat=109&_nc_sid=b96e70&_nc_ohc=gLOcBFWacNgAX80GtEO&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-1.xx&oh=2909a9df4a85084509e50ea6b0a896ee&oe=5EB50926

Starter Day 1
https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.15752-9/92337824_2575131976138840_8918886523747696640_n.jp g?_nc_cat=101&_nc_sid=b96e70&_nc_ohc=rJAqMO62D_kAX_RCSch&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-1.xx&oh=172ed2fa8742eccb67795738235e274a&oe=5EB47619

That looks killer. Do you make it in a dutch oven? I think I'm going to give this a try Sunday.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Not that one, the first one I did, but the crust was way to hard