Baking sourdough without a Dutch oven OPEN BAKING 🍞 tutorial on my instagram @sarahdoessourdough

[@janeevanz]

You are awesome! The bread is even more amazing!

[@owamuhmza]

I love your channel.

[@puripuribuns]

Hi! I see your heating element is only using bottom heat. Am i correct? I have an oven with the fan. Would you suggest I turn it off and also use lower heat only?

[@JaneThatcher89]

Following

[@rebeccacorwin7227]

Do you have to use lava rocks ?

[@charitydixon7828]

Just got lava rocks to try this method!

[@thelastsamurai8162]

Please can you give me the recipe for the bread

[@rebeccacorwin7227]

I can’t find the caption😢

[@tinavandenheuvel8888]

What temperature are you baking at? Thank you!

[@baileepoulsen199]

Is this a baking steel ?

[@tt7762]

I don't have gravels, can i just use a sheet pan filled with hot water??

[@sarahdoessourdough]

Yep!

[@jenniferdiffley294]

I also added a rolled up dish towel to the baking sheet

[@tt7762]

@@sarahdoessourdough thanks a lot!

[@tt7762]

@@jenniferdiffley294 thank you!

[@ayesandyx]

Does this work on gas ovens??

[@ellishacrosby4268]

Lavastones? Can someone give me more details on this please? And are they totally necessary?

[@sarahdoessourdough]

Not totally necessary, you can use rolled up towels soaked in the boiling water in a pan instead. The point is to keep continual steam flowing for that first part of the bake.

[@rebeccacorwin7227]

Were is the capuchin????

[@elviahernandez3313]

Gloves from?😊

[@thelastsamurai8162]

I live in Japan

[@Lisa_Isom]

Ugh 😫 Now I need LAVA ROCKS?? OMGOSH, this will be the reason my sourdough starter is generations old.... But never used. No Dutch oven.... No proofing baskets... And now: No lava rocks 😭😭

[@fayefayelou4093]

They don't appear to be required! She told another commenter she could use a sheet pan with water. 😊 there's hope for us yet! Haha

[@megananothen610]

I don't have scoring tools, banneton baskets, or a Dutch oven, but I have baked a few loaves that taste great! I like baking in the crockpot 😉

[@threeofcats5803]

For thousands of years, people have not have those things- please don’t let that stop you! No proving basket? A small colander will do, I used one for a long time. If you can get a linen or cotton type towel to line it that would help. Don’t have those things? It’s truly okay. Shaping bread dough into a boule (round shape)is worth learning and you can find a lot of info online teaching you how. You don’t need a Dutch oven (though when you can get one it will be worth it). To start with baking straight in the oven or on the back of a sheet pan is still worth it. Dutch ovens help with crust quality and “oven spring” (height of finished loaf) but it’s not necessary to have a yummy loaf of bread. Lava rocks are not something I’ve ever had and while I have a lot of bread baking tools these days I don’t think I’ll ever worry about them. I use a cast iron pan preheated in the bottom of my oven and put a few ice cubes in it to steam when I load in the dough to the racks above. It does the trick. Lava rocks are completely unnecessary.