Another set of loaves made for the Boulder dinner. They behaved perfectly at higher altitude. I tried steaming the oven by spraying the oven and loaves three times during the first three minutes of baking. My spraying technique was not very uniform, though, and I believe that is the reason...

One pair of four different loaves made for a dinner party. I followed my usual 9 Grain recipe. I certainly didn’t want to experiment with anything new right before feeding twenty people, and I was baking at altitude in a different oven than I’m used to. Everything worked as usual,...

My friend Jason had some sourdough starter in his fridge that he uses for pizza, so I tried to use it to make a couple loaves of sourdough using the Tartine recipe. I fed a bit of his starter the night before, but it failed to really come to life by the next morning. I had a lot of other...

I’ll be baking a lot of bread for a dinner party, so I wanted to get a practice loaf done a day early to learn if I needed to alter my methods to account for the altitude. We decided that baguette loaves would be best, so that we can use day old loaves for bruschetta as an appetizer if...

A small refinement on 100% Whole Wheat Loaf 59, this time with pictures! This version has 4.5% brown sugar instead of the 3.6% I used last time per the Reinhart Whole Wheat recipe. I mixed 1kg of dough the night before, putting it into the fridge around 8:45pm. I removed it from the fridge...

On to something new! Now that I’m getting confident with my sourdough, I decided to try the Tartine approach to sourdough. I followed the directions from Chad Robertson’s Tartine Bread for the basic country bread as close as possible. I started by feeding my starter the night...

This is the last of the deleted picture loaves. We had a friend over for BBQ dinner so I made my reliable Reinhart Lean Bread. Round boules shaped in bannetons is the simple approach I took with these two loaves, and they looked and tasted great. I was a little concerned when they...

Part of my collection of accidentally deleted pictures. Since Eric was going to be home for a few days I made a bunch of ciabatta sandwich rolls. I followed the same Reinhart ciabatta recipe as before with modifications in the shaping phase. The dough was mixed the evening before and spent...