Sourdough bread: shaping and baking the bread

Summary by Krater

This video demonstrates how to shape sourdough bread dough, place it in bannetons, score it, and bake it on a pizza stone with steam. The resulting sourdough loaf is baked and sliced to reveal its crumb and texture.

From the video

Answers: How do you shape and bake sourdough bread?

• Sourdough bread shaping
• Using bannetons for bread proofing
• Scoring bread dough
• Baking sourdough with a pizza stone and steam

Ingredients

• 2 equal pieces sourdough dough
• flour
• cornmeal
• semolina flour
• water

What it concludes

• Baking bread directly in the baskets would cause them to catch fire in the oven.
• Using parchment paper on a peel is a great trick for transferring bread to the oven stone without burning.
• Slashing the bread dough allows internal steam to escape through a controlled path rather than splitting the side of the bread.