Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

Book Author：by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois. Recipe:(a)1 1/2 tablespoons yeast.(b)1 1/2 tablespoons kosher salt
.(c)6 1/2 cups unbleached, all-purpose flour, more for dusting dough.(d)Cornmeal.

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[harleyxxfabco]

Why is my bread crust turning out a sickly looking white? It is not browning at all.

I followed the recipe...what am I doing wrong?

[lulugoh]

@harleyxxfabco

Every oven has a different temperature, even same brand same model. Professional Pastry chef also need to try few times to get the right temperature for each kind of pastry. After I bought an oven thermometer, I found out that my oven has a different temperature upto 60 degree compare with the oven indicator! So don't give up and try and try!

[TheShizzire]

Too much salt. Would it ruin the recipe if I used less? Like 1.5 tsp instead of 1.5 tbs?

[lulugoh]

@TheShizzire

They are using "kosher salt", I google it and found out that kosher salt is no salt as sea salt, so my first time job also ruin because its turn out too salty! So just cut down the salt as usual taste will do, I just put half teaspoon only (just like dishes i cook), and DON'T PUT the salt together with yeast, yeast will DIE if they touch the salt! Yeast like sugar and will rise very high if put together with sugar but not salt.

[2groomers]

What temperature do you bake the bread at? and for how long?

[lulugoh]

@2groomers

Sorry for the late reply, I think i use around 180 celsius and bake around 30 mins.

[breaddheadd]

as a self proclaimed breaddheadd, i highly recomend this book,i give it "five loaves"

[lulugoh]

I've used the Out dated flour to make a dog bread for my dog~ using this method to do a dog bread is very easy, just stir all ingredient together (flour + a bit sugar + yeast, strictly no salt and butter), and leave it over night for rising, bake a big bread (200c +20 minutes) bread and cut into small pieces, put into fridge. When u need to feed your dog, bake 10 minutes with 200c and its look brown and tasty! My dog like it very much!

[apexwiddy]

@antdad1969

If you are still around to see this, what do you mean by "overpopulated the substrate"? Do you mean they are using more salt and yeast than classic methods?

[vidinman]

@harleyxxfabco Hi.b4 putting in oven u should brush with milk and then it will brown

[rumahria]

@harleyxxfabco i have made this bread for 9 months with great success but in the last month the bottom has 'exploded' or pushed up so that the loaf is lopsided. the bread tastes great but doesn't look good. any idea whats wrong?

[stewartyu]

That took longer than 5 minutes.

[MetaView7]

no sugar?

[harleyxxfabco]

@lulugoh I bumped up the temp to 450 and sprayed some water on the oven walls and the bread came out perfect. Thanks for the suggestion about checking the oven temp. This probably explains why I have been such a failure at baking bread so far. 

[harleyxxfabco]

The bread turned out ok. It didn't brown the way I would like it to, but the crust is nice & crunchy. The taste is a little too salty for me but other than that it was good. I recommend adding either more flour or less water to the initial dough so that it is not too runny.