mercredi 25 mars 2015

Bread & 3 Common Baking Mistakes To Know

By Jennifer Marie Anderson


One of the most rewarding endeavors that can be considered, in the culinary sense, would be the process of baking bread. The fresh taste that comes from a loaf, which has just emerged from the oven, is an element that cannot be accurately described. Simply put, it has to be experienced. However, if you're going to focus on ways in which baking bread can be done with greater ease, I believe that there are certain oversights to talk about.

Baking bread should be a rewarding process, which goes without saying. However, if you're going to get into this, you have to know that there are a number of ways in which this process can be followed. Bakers should be able to recognize the most common missteps and not only learn from them but ensure that they do not happen again. In fact, if you were to focus on these 3 missteps, the idea of baking better loaves will come to fruition.

Temperature can lead to some of the biggest oversights, when it comes to baking bread. You have to keep in mind that warm water is needed in order to mix ingredients together, though it must not exceed a certain temperature. If you decide to use water which is too hot, for example, the yeast will be negatively impacted. As a result, if you're going to make bread in the oven, you must be able to use the right water beforehand.

You should also know that mistakes can be made when the dough is being kneaded. Let's say that the dough in question is not given the appropriate amount of time for kneading; chances are that the elasticity and flexibility of the product is not going to be as strong as it could be. When this happens, you'll probably encounter even more problems during the baking process. Make sure that you give yourself the time required for kneading, as this will produce much better loaves of bread.

There's also the matter of density, as it relates to flour, that can create issues during the bread-baking process. Different types of flour have varied densities, meaning that you're not going to add the same amount of whole wheat flour to a recipe than you would, say, rye flour. Simply put, it's all a matter of finding the perfect balance. The sooner that you find this, as you can very well imagine, the better your bread will turn out being.




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