How to Adjust Bulk Fermentation Time Your total bulk fermentation time will depend mostly on two factors - 1) Amount of starter used in the dough 2) Temperature of the dough...
Coil Folds – Continue Building Dough Strength Coil folds are easy to do and help to strengthen your dough by building gluten strength. This gives you great height and oven spring that all sourdough bakers desire. Coil folds are usually reserved...
Stretch and Folds – Begin Building Dough Strength Stretch and folds are easy to do and help to strengthen your dough. Visualize your dough as a square. Take the right end of the square and pull the dough up as high as you can. Then fold it ...
Bulk Fermentation – The Key to a Great Oven Spring & Crumb This is the 6-12 hour window of time while you are letting the cultures do their work and make the bread rise. During this step you are building the gluten strength in your dough, which...