My bread baking career started as a child, hand kneading with my grandmother. Her tasty, wholesome bread was famous not least for it’s heavy and satisfying crumb but also for the way she would butter the end of the loaf, then hold the loaf vertically to carve the buttered slice off. Weird. In recent years… Continue reading Twisty Test Kitchen: Mixing dough in the Ankarsrum Assistent
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Twisty Test Kitchen: Sourdough Baking Methods
Around the interwebs, you will find much advice on how to achieve that glorious explosive oven spring we all crave. One thing they all have in common is very simple advice. Use steam! Yup, steam is the magic ingredient mentioned in every recipe. The ways to add steam to you oven include: Bake inside a… Continue reading Twisty Test Kitchen: Sourdough Baking Methods
Ankarsrum – the Swedish Chef of mixers
Kneading yeasted bread by hand is an important part of the learning process – you can feel the dough quality change as the liquid is absorbed and the gluten develops. It’s also a chore if you’re doing a couple of loaves every evening after work. In Singapore I have a Kenwood Chef Titanium XL GTS… Continue reading Ankarsrum – the Swedish Chef of mixers
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