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Read a lot about making sourdough bread during lockdown - as someone with aspirations to be middle class I couldn't resist.

After all the reading and research, overjoyed that my first loaf came out as incred as this

Good rise, good oven spring, good colour, good ear, decent crumb and oh yeah, tastes pretty good too

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Looks good but I'm you lost me on ears and crumbs.

Are you OK Glenn?

Done well to leave no evidence of the wrapping/bag from Waitrose in the background. 

Trivial.

Haha. Im ok hon, just love baking

Thanks for your input 😊

So much i could tell you Ralph. The ear is that open slot at the top, produced by slicing into the dough with ones lame prior to baking. The crumb relates to the texture and air gaps produced during fermentation.such a satisfying process from start to finish. Next thing youll be asking is how i made my levain

From one pro to another. Apreciate the recognition

Takes a guesser to know a guesser more like!

Looks like good work to me, appreciate the clean hob too.  Can do cakes pretty well, bread can be a disaster.

Aspirations to be middle class and has a 5 burner hob. How much left to go is there? Tough going out there cobber ;)

I'm trying to get to 10 red rewards on my Nandos card before 2021.

I'll eat bread, but won't be trying to bake any.

Good looking loaf, though.

Arb Holmes on the case ;D

FYP.  Working class folks having it tough

Haha. Like any instagrammer i took great care to get the hob in

Haha good spot. Like any instagrammer i took great care to get the hob in the shot

The Arsenal blogger @7amkickoff is a very accomplished baker if you don't already follow him on Twitter.

Deffo worth a look.

And  set off perfectly  by the design classic  Le Creuset casserole-cocotte oval dish. A snip at £250.

I can say its  not that, i could never brjng myself to spend that much on a pot. Cast iron dutch oven from amazon at 49.99

Great looking bread but why do you have to drop down a class to make it?

Nice bread! Looks really good to me.

We have been selecting a country at random each week or two and cooking dishes from that country. So far we did Turkmenistan (hearty but kind of boring) and North Macedonia (bit more interesting, but not quite as exciting as Turkish which I know very well already). Next we draw Bhutan and we finally get to use some spice - so we will be making 'momos' this week.

Sounds like a much more interesting plan 😊 ive thrown scone making with my grandchildren into the mix but still improving bread making. Think you should share some pics

I make bread now and again anyway but I haven't made souffle for about 20 years so this was pretty much learning how to do it from scratch again

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It wasn't perfect, I might have lost some points if it was a Bake Off technical challenge - but pretty pleased it worked so well after all this time.

Looks good Jon.

Yep, wouldnlove to scoff them