Half an hour has gone by and our bread has now relaxed on the bench, so we're going to do is we're
going to do our final shaping of the bread and we're going to put it inside cider proofing basket.
OK, this is just a whicker proofing basket, which we're going to line with some flour.
And while this is sitting in the basket, we're going to start preheat the oven to five hundred degrees
Fahrenheit and we're going to put our crockpot inside.
This way, it is starting to get nice and hot and take this plastic off.
Go ahead and get our proofing basket ready.
OK, just sprinkle some on sometimes the dough might be a little bit too wet at times and stick to the
sides, there are some ways to help get that off.
If you want to throw just a little bit on top and just this way doesn't stick.
Take your bench knife, go underneath, flip it over,
and we're going to do the same motion that we did before, OK?
What we're looking for when we're before we start folding it into the pool or the the round shape is
that you want the edges to be nice and thick.
You don't want it to and round it.
You don't want to be thin.
OK, that means that we've let this rise enough.
OK, so I'm going to go take my two edges.
Fold in.
To top all that over and just keep talking and rolling.
Time and again, all we're going to do is take our fingers, pull back, pull back, and that's just
going to add additional tension to the dough.
You can also do this with a bench knife, too, so you can do a sweeping motion, which sometimes I
like to do.
If you're working in a bakery, you probably want to develop techniques for you're not going to be putting
down your bench knife because there are going to be using it all the time.
OK, so once we have that nice round shape, we're ready to put it inside.
OK, just a little bit of flour on the bottom surface this way doesn't stick to my towel.
It's going to cover it with a towel and we're going to let this sit until the oven's ready.
So maybe about 45 minutes to an hour.
And then once when this is ready, you'll notice that it will rise quite a bit and then we'll put it
inside the crock pot for the final cooking.
So again, we set the oven for five hundred with a crock pot inside and will be cooking very soon.