In this video, we're going to talk about what are the best supplies that you need in order to make
a beautiful, rustic sound of bread.
So here are a few different things that you're definitely going to need in order to make the best looking
sourdough bread possible.
The first is a Dutch oven or a cast iron combo cooker, a scale.
Alarm for slicing the bread, mixing bowl, bread, flour and whole wheat flour.
So why is a Dutch oven or a combo cooker necessary in order to get the best possible bread that you
can?
The reason is that a traditional baker's oven will inject steam while it is baking the bread and unfortunately,
home ovens don't allow you to inject steam.
So by using a Dutch oven or a cast iron kombucha, it's going to help you capture that steam, which
is going to give you a really beautiful oven spring.
Another benefit is that you can pre-heat fees for an incredibly long time, you can put them inside
the oven for an hour, set this way while it's preheating the Dutch oven, Ricardo Cooker is also preheating.
When you drop the bread into these devices, the bread is going to be hitting an extremely hot surface,
which is going to cause all the yeast to use and bacteria start activating and they're going to release
more gas, which is going to cause that beautiful oven spring that you're looking for.
Another beautiful thing is that it's just it's not as messy as using some of the other tools.
You can put everything inside that one container or vessel and everything is contained inside there.
And I also think it's just safer.
I think it's safer to use these items rather than some of the other options that are available for cooking
your your bread.
The second thing that would be really helpful is a scale, and it doesn't have to be digital scale,
but you definitely want something that can weigh out in grams.
Most bakers, when they give out their recipes, do it in what's called the baker's percentage, and
they always do it in grams.
So the great thing about a scale is it gives you precise measurements so you can easily scale up or
scale down a recipe because you have that scale and they're all in grams.
The next thing is alarm, so alarm is just a slicing tool that will allow you to easily cut the surface
of the bread, the scoring that you do on the bread by cutting it allows for a better oven spring,
which gives it that nice rise and also gives it the look that people are looking for in the rustic bread.
Now, the Double-Sided razor works better than, say, a knife because it's very thin and very, very
sharp.
So there are some other tools that you can use, but this would certainly be the best to use.
Of course, you're going to need a mixing bowl just to make sure that you have all your ingredients.
Doesn't matter what kind of mixing bowl you have, but definitely need to have some sort of mixing bowl.
The next is bread, flour, when you're making a high hydration bread, you really need to make sure
that you're using bread flour.
If you're just using a low hydration bread recipe like our first or second loaf, then using All-Purpose
Flour will certainly work.
But as you get into the higher hydration dose, you're going to want to use bread, flour.
So in future videos, we have examples of trying to make a high hydration dough using All-Purpose flour
and then doing the same recipe, but then using bread flour to show you the difference between the amount
of water that both the All-Purpose Flour can hold while the bread flour can hold and you'll be able
to see a difference in the dough to the last thing is whole wheat flour.
OK, so the thing that we like about whole wheat flour is that it's its whole grain, which means that
you get the whole of the green and the whole of the green.
That's each ukelele hole that contains the majority of the nutrients that are necessary for the bacteria
and yeast.
So it's really important to have those included.
Also, it has a high protein content.
So the higher protein content allows for you to absorb more water as well as to create a stronger gluten
network.
So here are just some of the best supplies that you have.
We'll go ahead and take a look at other possible alternatives that you could use if you don't have these
available to you.