Firing Oven

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

You gonna give the formula for that miche away to your fans?

David Aplin and Camelia Proulx said...

Hi Jeremy, Ok, here's the form'...
Flour (High Extraction)- 1008g (100%)
Water-900g (83%)
Salt- 20g(1.8%)
Chef(piece of Mature firm starter)-40g(4%)
Total= 2000g (184.8%)
Levain Build:
Flour(High Extraction)- 220g
Water- 140g
Chef- 40g
Total: 400g
Mix ingredients until just incorporated. Leave to ripen at room temp., 8-12 hours.
Final Dough:
Flour(High Extraction) 360g
Water- 870g
Salt- 20g
Levain Build- 360g
Total Yield: 2000g
Mix flour and water to a rough mass, leave to autolyse for 20-30 minutes. Add levain build and salt and mix until moderately developed.
Desired dough temp.: 75-78 F
Bulk Fermentation: 2.5 hours, folds at 45 minutes and 90 minutes.
Shape into a large boule, place onto a tray with parchment, or place into a floured basket.
Final fermentation: 2-2.5 hours.
Bake with steam at 460 F for 20 minutes, then lower the temp. to 420 for another 40 minutes.

PS: If High Exraction flour is unattainable, use 90% whole wheat flour and 10% regular all purpose flour mixed together.

Anonymous said...

Thanks David, is that JH's formula?
I will send you one we used to do here in NYC at a bakery I worked one summer!

David Aplin and Camelia Proulx said...

Hi Jeremy, Yes of course it's Jeffrey Hameleman's formula. I shamelessly steal everything. Please do send your version, there are many ways to skin this cat.
All the best.
-d

Anonymous said...

David,
Your water and flour were mixed up, check it out! Should be 870 water and flour 360

jimmyboy said...

hey "CBC" Aplin, good job!Nice bread!
......remember, just add a scoop of bran to that white muffin mix, it'll do!!

jimmyboy