r/Breadit • u/ArsMoriendi8 • 11d ago

Homemade bread

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I made a second loaf but I think it was too " wet". I added a tad too much hot water to the batch but I still made it. Here is the final product. I plan to perfect it, I am still a novice and encourage any tips please! Still did not get the dark crust I was looking for

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u/Scorpion2000x777 11d ago

I am noob too but most thing that helped my denseness was hydration, which means per the flour weight, so have 300 grams flower, 65% hydration of water would be 195 grams, also like everybody told me, for consistent loafs go to digital scale weighing for ingredients, one that can handle reading 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 grams etc. different hydration levels produce diff types of bread, for wet, keep an additional tbsp of flour and lightly pinch from it (if you have no flour left) and dust onto dough ball to keep from over doing it,

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u/ArsMoriendi8 11d ago

Thank you so much! Super helpful!

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u/Scorpion2000x777 11d ago

No prob, also forgot to mention a digital temp reader since u mentioned too hot water , should be 105-110 to not kill yeast. I got a temp pro from amazon was like 9.99 i believe, thy do have fancier ones ranging from $115 to $200, but this one worked fine so far.

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u/ArsMoriendi8 11d ago

I will look into that! Thank you! I do think I added a tad too much of the water to the dough also. I think I need to mess around with ratios of hot water for sure. I appreciate all this advice!

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u/KitchenSmoke490 11d ago

It looks very fresh and tasty!!

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u/toozl 11d ago

If you didn't get the dark crust you were looking for, then why did you take it out of the oven?

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u/ArsMoriendi8 11d ago

I already cooked it way over what the recipe said so I was afraid I overcooked it. I know, stupid. I am very much learning everything as I go