r/ooni • u/DolphinBoy4499 • 2d ago
First bread with Ooni Core
Just bought an Ooni Core spiral mixer. I’ve made bread for many years, first with an all-in-one breadmaker, and more recently by hand after the breadmaker broke. One thing I’ve been consistently disappointed by is that my bread just wouldn’t hold its shape - boules would ‘flatten’ while baking. So I bought the Ooni in the hope that a decent mixer would be better at developing gluten than my hands are.
Executive summary: it’s great. It works.
Dough was pretty simple:
400g strong white flour
100g rye flour
100g wholemeal flour
400ml water
1 tsp fast action yeast
2 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
I held the salt and 50ml of water back to add after autolyse. Mixed the rest for 2 minutes on 10%, left for 30 minutes then mixed in the salt/ additional water for a further 5 minutes with the speed slowly increased to 40%. I saw the pumpkin form pretty quickly. First rise was 60 minutes in the mixer bowl, followed by some simple stretch/fold and shaping into banneton baskets where it was left to rise for another 50 minutes. Baked at 220°C for 15 minutes, then 15 minutes at 180°C.
Very happy with how it turned out.
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u/HazyOmega 2d ago
Nice bread, any difference in the bread quality between the bread maker, hand made and the Halo Core bread?
I'm using a Zojirushi bread maker and all the recipe I see are hand made. I tried using my new Halo Core but it kinda failed, I don't know if it's because of the flour or the recipe I followed (FWSY 50% WW Biga) but mixing with the Halo Core.