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Classic Sourdough Bread Tutorial | My Step-by-Step Method After 13 Years of Baking

Amy Bakes Bread130K views32:3310mo agoWatch on YouTube

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0:0016:1632:33
  1. Peak13:01 to 13:20
  2. Peak20:10 to 20:49
  3. Peak21:29 to 22:27
  4. Flat stretch7:09 to 9:26
  5. Flat stretch15:57 to 18:13
  6. Flat stretch28:19 to 32:33

How it is built its chapters, as YouTube shows them

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 0:19Making the levain
  3. 3:24Mixing the dough
  4. 8:43Milling fresh flour
  5. 9:34Autolyse and temperature
  6. 11:53Adding salt
  7. 13:06Stretch and folds
  8. 20:49Shaping the loaves
  9. 24:47Cold proofing
  10. 25:16Scoring the dough
  11. 27:00Baking the bread
  12. 30:22Cooling and final reveal