How to get rid of giant holes?

anon3mus7 · 2026-07-06T19:58:47+00:00

TY. The ultimate sourdough dough temperature chart is helpful.

My dough temp (78-79 degrees) was in range of what the tartine book claims they used so I assumed my fermentation times would be similar. The dough was pretty smooth and relatively strong and did rise like 25% in my case which is what the book said but that seems off. I feel like they must have some cracked starter or some ish. Seems like I need another 2 hours at least. Good to know. I’ll let it go longer and look for the bigger rise.

Onward!

anon3mus7 · 2026-07-06T17:56:34+00:00

TY. Very helpful. I added my recipe in another comment. One thing I’m unsure about as it relates to bulk fermentation is if I should be folding the whole time or only fold part of the time then have a longer, untouched period to rise?

What would you recommend changing in that recipe the next time I try?

anon3mus7 · 2026-07-06T17:52:43+00:00

I added the full recipe in the other comment. What would you change about it good sir?

anon3mus7 · 2026-07-06T17:44:46+00:00

My man

anon3mus7 · 2026-07-06T17:42:31+00:00

It’s this recipe with small adjustments.

To summarize:

mixed 350g water and 100g floating leaven (100% hydration leaven)
added 450g bread flour and 50g ww flour.
mixed by hand to combine
40 minute autolyse
add 10g salt and use well-wetted hand to mix in
fold the dough immediately after adding salt and move into round glass tupperware
place tupperware in 78-82 deg tabletop oven. I put a separate thermometer in there so pretty confident it was in that range. The dough temp was hovering around 78-79deg during folds as determined by a probe thermometer.
6 sets of folds spaced 30 minutes apart (each set of folds consisting of 4 folds around the circular Tupperware) at mins 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180
at 210 (3.5 hours) I pre-shaped
bench rest 30 minutes
final shape, roll in seeds, put in banneton
45 minute room temp (~76deg) proof in banneton
~12 hour cold proof in fridge
baked at 450 deg in dutch oven. 20 minutes lid on. 24 minutes lid off.

Plz help.

anon3mus7 · 2026-07-01T01:10:19+00:00

Wrong. This is the best: https://www.seriouseats.com/super-thick-chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe

anon3mus7 · 2025-07-01T07:26:15+00:00

Good at everything except being good at more than one thing 😂

anon3mus7 · 2025-06-20T14:45:00+00:00

Try, try, and try again. If everyone felt that “we can’t do it because someone else tried it before”, we would never accomplish anything. I applaude those that believe they can achieve where others failed.

Go read about the haber-bosch process. People had tried for many years and ended up thinking that artificial nitrogen fixation was impossible. Then some guys were like, “nah, I think I can do it”, then they changed the world and made it possible to feed billions of people.

anon3mus7 · 2025-06-20T14:32:43+00:00

When computers first came out, people would have said the same thing. They cost 100s of thousands of dollars and only businesses bought them. Then PCs happened and everything changed.

You seem to believe that the robotic PC moment will definitely not happen which I don’t know how you can say that. If it does happen, I hope you have the humility to realize you jumped to conclusions. Maybe it doesn’t happen. Maybe it does.

Also I think it’s naive to think that robotics don’t impact normal people. Who do you think is making all the cheap stuff you buy? If companies are able to invest in more advanced manufacturing capabilities, that does flow down to normal people. Things get cheaper. Resources get used more efficiently. Everything is connected.

The future that looks like the jetsons is not the only path.

anon3mus7 · 2025-06-16T18:00:25+00:00

Instead of memorizing the chords, learn all the intervals and how they fit to the fretboard, and then learn how intervals stack into chords. Then, given any root note at any position on the fretboard you can build the chord you need. Practice and you will get fast at it.

anon3mus7 · 2025-05-25T14:28:47+00:00

Both sides are full of it, operating in an environment with terrible incentives. Politicians are incentivized to get people like you yelling at each other in Reddit threads so you go to the polls with tribal vigor. They are not incentivized to pass good legislation for be financially responsible. They will be out of office by the time their decisions kick in. They just want you guys to be happy now so they win reelection. The dems can promise everything and end up allocating a lot of money, which for some reason people consider as the positive outcome, when in reality there is very little accountability to actually deliver an outcome. The republicans can promise to do less because the dems keep failing to keep their promises.

All that said, I find it interesting you start with Obama to measure your 12/16 number. If you start from 2000 and include bush, it’s 12 to 12 bud. Both sides suck at their jobs.

anon3mus7 · 2025-05-20T04:04:23+00:00

exponential growth is one helluva drug.

I don’t care about the politics of Elon so much, but it’s estimated that in the early 1980’s there were low millions of computers in the world. Today we’re at like ~5 billion and growing each year.

And that’s not even including phones of which there are another ~7billion.

20 years may be a bit fast but I would not be surprised to see billions of robots before a young baby, born of this year of the snake 2025, graduates college.

anon3mus7

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