Category BreadForge

The Bread’s Oven Spring When you have mixed, proofed, and shaped your dough, you need to pop that beauty into the oven. The oven stage is where the magic happens. This is when you actually see the fruits of your…

Shaping dough is an extremely satisfying part of the bread making process, but it’s also one of the most sensitive. Once the dough has had a chance to develop some strength and flavor from fermentation, shaping is the step where…

Fermentation, the most critical yet least understood aspect of bread making, can be deceiving at first. It is so easily misunderstood as time to wait in between mixing the dough and baking it. In truth, it is where flour and…

Making bread, at its most basic, is easy: flour, water, salt, and time. But for anyone who has ever really tried to make a great loaf, it’s clear there’s more to it than that. There’s a certain discipline required, a…