Oven Spring

[jgarner53]

I finally got my oven spring! OK, it was with ciabatta and not French bread, but holy oven spring, Batman! I put a pan in the oven to preheat and poured in 2 cups of hot water when I put in the bread. I think that for my tiny oven 2C is probably too much water/steam because the crust softened some as it cooled. But bang! It was like someone had stuck a straw in the loaf and inflated it! It looked a lot like the pugliese above.

So back to the pate fermentee drawing board and next time I'll do the pan/water thing instead of spraying my loaves.

[mktye]

Congratulations!!!!