47 minutes ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:
I think baking preformed loaves directly from the refrigerator is the idea.
What I do though is to refrigerate the unshaped dough and then shape before baking. The way things are stashed and stuffed into my refrigerator a preformed loaf would not stay preformed for long.
I read and I reread and then I read again the section on cold proofing and never did grasp that they really, really wanted me to bake these icy doughs. It couldn’t have happened anyway unless I threw the bannetons into the oven which wouldn’t have been a great idea. But the dough was so stuck to the linen that would have been my only choice. Might abandon the bannetons for now.