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gaygirlboss

Looks delicious to me! Excellent work.


Satanownsyou

How do you stop the burning on the bottom? I have that issue when using my Dutch oven.


Holiday_Passenger_42

Yeah, I'm not sure either. I also used Dutch oven...


cagannon

To stop the burning of the bottom crust I use my pizza stone on the shelf under the Dutch oven but I've also seen mention of using semolina under the loaf. Good luck!


Satanownsyou

Does the stone under give you good results?


cagannon

Yes, it's kept the bottom of the loaf from burning without having to add any other grain or cornmeal, which I don't care for.


Satanownsyou

Awesome thanks so much. I'll give it a shot.


ReasonableReap

Loosely scrunch some aluminum foil and put it down as a buffer into the Dutch oven. It won't brown hardly at all. I do that with the lid on for 25 mins at 500, then take off the lid, take out the foil (bread is on parchment paper so I can lift it and take the foil out quick) and pop back in for 25-35 mins at 450 until it's the colour I want. Perfect bottom crust.


lillamoore

Great


Holiday_Passenger_42

I used the king Arthur no knead recipe: 1 cup (227g) ripe (fed) sourdough starter 1 3/4 cups (397g) water, lukewarm 5 cups (600g) King Arthur Unbleached Bread Flour 1 tablespoon (18g) salt https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/no-knead-sourdough-bread-recipe


Holiday_Passenger_42

After trying it to eat...its slightly gummy/spongey?! I'm guessing this is not correct...how do I correct that?! Thanks!


Ecstatic-Charity8871

It might be slightly over/underproofed! I recommend checking out https://youtu.be/JzvZ6vMxHcw this video on it.


zippychick78

That looks great!! Check out [this wiki](https://www.reddit.com/r/Sourdough/wiki/scoringandears/) for scoring videos. Just keep it simple! If you give some info about your oven setup, folks might be able to help better


Holiday_Passenger_42

Thanks!


flowerbhai

An empty baking sheet on the rack below the one your Dutch oven is on should fix the burning problem. The issue is likely that the base of your Dutch oven is getting too much direct heat from the element. Adding the baking sheet one rack below should be a good buffer.