Just started to bake sourdough. Tips on creating less dense crumb?
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Just started to bake sourdough. Tips on creating less dense crumb?
Recipe:
All flour is King Arthur Flour
-120g Starter (fed 40g starter with 20g AP flour, 20g whole wheat, 40g water)
-600g bread flour
-510g water
-12g salt
-assorted seeds/grains
-autolyse for 1 hour, fed starter and let rise for approx 5 hours
-mix salt, starter, and some seeds into flour/water mixture
-every 30 min do stretch/fold by stretching and folding top,b ottom, left, right
-total of 5 stretch and folds
-total bulk fermentation w stretch and fold is 4 hours
-preshape - i think the surface did split during this time. it got real loose and sticky after a little bit
-let preshaped dough sit for 30 mins
-final shaping
-overnight proof for about 13 hours
-preheat oven at 500F and put dutch oven in it for one hour