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☀️ Good morning, bakers. It's bake day. 🥖🔥 Drop in here all day. This is the working thread. 📸 Photos ❓ Questions 📈 Progress shots 😅 Panics 🏆 Wins 🥣 Anything you've got I'll be in and out of the kitchen and in and out of this thread until the last loaf is out of the oven. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📍 Here's where I am right now: [Drop photo of your levain or current dough state] My levain is ready and I'm mixing the sourdough version with toasted black sesame this morning. If you want to follow my pace, here's roughly when I'll hit each stage: 🥣 Fermentolyse: 8:00 AM 🧂 Add salt: 9:00 AM 🔄 First coil + seeds: 9:30 AM 🔄 Second coil: 10:00 AM 🔄 Third coil: 10:30 AM 🌡️ Bulk finish: 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM ✂️ Pre-shape: 1:00 PM 🪢 Final shape: 1:30 PM ❄️ Cold retard: 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM 🔥 Bake: 6:00 PM ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Your timeline may run faster or slower depending on your kitchen temperature. Don't chase mine. Watch your dough. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 A Few Quick Reminders For Today 🧂 The dough is going to look like it's falling apart after the salt. That's normal. Keep working it. It'll come back together. 💧 At 80% hydration, wet hands are your friend. Floured hands work against you. Keep a bowl of water nearby. 🌻 If you're using sesame, sunflower, pepitas, or any seed besides poppy... Toast it first if you haven't already. Cool completely before folding it in. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 The Recipes Are Here 🥖 Sourdough:https://pantry.bakinggreatbread.com/recipes/poppy-seed-sourdough-loaf 🥖 Yeasted:https://pantry.bakinggreatbread.com/recipes/poppy-seed-yeasted-loaf ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧡 For The New Bakers In The Room Welcome. You picked a good week to jump in. There's no wrong answer today. Bake what excites you.Ask whatever you need to ask.And don't apologize for being new. We were all new once. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👇 Drop in below and tell us: 🥖 What you're baking

We’re staying on the road we’ve been building together. Baguettes. Pretzel bread. The Foolproof Sourdough Loaf. And this Saturday, we’re going somewhere beautiful. ✨ Poppy seed bread. ✨ Two versions. ✨ One bake-along. 📌 Why two versions? Some of you are deep into sourdough and ready to push hydration. Some of you are still building your starter, or just want to bake bread this weekend without a multi-day commitment. This Saturday, both of you get to bake the same loaf alongside everyone else. 🥖 The Sourdough Version T55 French flour and a touch of wholemeal at 80% hydration. The poppy seeds get folded in during the first coil, which laminates them through the crumb instead of mixing them away. The result is what you see in the photo: ✨ Open ✨ Airy ✨ Flecked with seed ✨ That nutty crunch you only get when the seeds keep their integrity This one teaches you: 🌾 How to handle higher hydration 🌾 How to time bulk fermentation in a warmer kitchen 🌾 Why we use 3.5 sets of coils instead of 4 (Hint: 80% hydration with wholemeal doesn’t want a fourth set. It tightens the crumb.) 📖 Full sourdough recipe in the Recipe Pantry: https://pantry.bakinggreatbread.com/recipes/poppy-seed-sourdough-loaf 🍞 The Yeasted Version Same flavor. Same beautiful crumb. Simpler timeline. ✅ Same-day bake ✅ No starter required We’ll use the same poppy seed lamination technique with a commercial yeast dough, so you still get that gorgeous seeded crumb without the multi-day fermentation. If you’ve been wanting to bake along but felt like sourdough was a barrier, this is your week. 📌 I’ll have the yeasted version uploaded to the Recipe Pantry by end of day today. Watch for the post. 🛒 What you need to know now: 🌾 Pick up poppy seeds this weekMost grocery stores carry them in the spice aisle. 🌾 If you can find T55 flour, grab it.If not, a strong all-purpose around 11–12% protein works beautifully.(King Arthur AP is the closest match.)

Saturday we bake. Here’s everything you need. I just dropped a new video walking through the first coil fold, with toasted black sesame seeds going into mine instead of poppy. The same technique applies whether you’re using poppy, sesame, or any other seed. Toast them first, fold them in at the first coil, let the dough do the rest. ▶️ Watch: The First Coil Fold (Plus Why You Toast Your Seeds) https://youtu.be/Zz16BORkOFE?si=p04K3QENO6JlGkRh (replace with your actual YouTube URL once it’s live) A quick rundown of what the video covers: Toasting your seeds turns them from mild and dusty into nutty, sweet, and complex. Low and slow in a dry skillet, two to three minutes, stirring constantly. Cool completely before they go in the dough. The first coil fold is gentle. Wet hands. Lift from the middle, let the bottom unfurl, rotate 90 degrees, repeat. The coil builds structure without popping the bubbles fermentation has already built. Sprinkle the seeds across the top before you fold and they’ll laminate through the dough instead of getting crushed. Bob’s your uncle. Saturday’s Recipes: 🥖 Sourdough version (fermentolyse, 80% hydration): https://pantry.bakinggreatbread.com/recipes/poppy-seed-sourdough-loaf 🥖 Yeasted version (Friday night poolish, Saturday bake): https://pantry.bakinggreatbread.com/recipes/poppy-seed-yeasted-loaf Pick your path. Sourdough or yeasted, poppy or black sesame or split. There’s no wrong answer. The schedule for Saturday: I’ll be in the kitchen and in the thread all day. Post your progress, ask your questions, share your wins and your struggles. This community gets stronger every Saturday because of how you all show up for each other. If you’ve been thinking about jumping in but haven’t yet, this is the bake to start with. Both recipes have full timing guides, troubleshooting FAQs, and step-by-step phases in the Recipe Pantry. The video covers the trickiest part. You’ve got everything you need.