Dan Shernicoff

70% – Take 3. Just add gluten.

Today I baked my 3rd attempt at the 70% hydration loaf. Like the first time I did this as a no knead. I’m not going to go into all the details of what I did just highlight the changes. The first change I made (and I made 2 changes) was to replace 15g of theContinue reading “70% – Take 3. Just add gluten.”

Pizza Wednesday!

In my family Wednesday means pizza. Now I’m sure you’re asking yourself, “Today’s Friday. If Wednesday means pizza why wait two days?” The answer to this is simple, Wednesday was my son’s birthday so we juggled things around this week and did pizza Wednesday on Thursday. And I was too exhausted yesterday evening to stringContinue reading “Pizza Wednesday!”

70% take 2

Yesterday I made the dough I planned on. I did a 70% hydration dough just like I did in my first solo attempt but this time I kneaded it. OK. The stand mixer kneaded it. But that doesn’t matter. I finally got the dough I was looking for. This morning I got up and bakedContinue reading “70% take 2”

The results of the goof

This morning I took the dough that I made when I goofed out of the fridge and baked it. I followed the advice of my friend Allaya of Stuff You Knead fame and baked it in a cast iron skillet (I used a 10″ Lodge skillet since I was using a 9″ proofing basket) thatContinue reading “The results of the goof”

I goofed.

I tried to repeat my 70% hydration loaf but with a different method but I goofed and put in too much water. Will it recover?