Ripple Thoughts: SSODD SA60L-1A for Sourdough?

I have seen bakers baking sourdough by using Innofood V88 and Unox convection oven, ever since I bought this oven the main objective is to be able to bake sourdough with ear, without having me to spend another thousands on dutch oven and pizza stone or other gadgets...

And so I tried and tried, although the sourdough I have baked mostly tasted awesome and great, some chewy recipes, some sourish recipes, and some soft and thin crust recipes, the texture were great, just not able to have ear as what home bakers are looking for at now, me too... am one of them.

I almost gave up since already been trying almost a month. The spray function in SSODD works only for 5 seconds, anytime more than that it will flood the oven. And talked to Ms Gan about this issue, and she advised not to press more than 5 seconds, I was so upset....

Not when I found out in fact Innofood V88 oven need to manually injecting steam too, every minute, press one time, that inspired me. And so I decided to go for a try, tried once, failed, failed as in the sourdough didn't have ear but well baked. Second trial, failed, I tried to figure it out by examine the way I prepare and the temperature of the setting..... The oven spring not as good as what I expected.

This morning, I tried the recipe Honey Oat Whole Meal Sourdough, the first dough using normal Japanese bread flour, the second dough I am using Super Melanger Japanese flour, and I need to tell you this really make the difference! Super Melanger flour can hold the dough so well, so clean, it does make everything easier for you.

Anyhow this blog is talk about SSODD oven setting for sourdough.

My found is:

1) Preheat with baking sheet placed on a level above middle deck. (Keep it high so that the bread will have to soak in the steam. ( I put add-on bar in between the 2nd and 3rd deck) I think I should try on 2nd deck in next baking.

2) Need to create a lot of steam, hence the initial temperature is 260°C for 1 minute, spray during preheat when temperature oven is ready after preheat, usually took about 10 minutes, don't bake it yet, let it continue preheating, at this moment, you press spray for 5 - 6 seconds, a few time in the interval of 30 seconds, let it be 2 minutes long. Then start baking.

3) After the door open and close, temperature will drop, steam runs away, spray immediately after the door is close, oven temperature still set in 260°C for 1 minute, press 5 -6 seconds in the interval of 30 seconds. After one minute, oven temperature back to 230°C, however, is still good to create steam, although it will a little flood in the base, but I can accept the fact that it will. haha. cheers!

First dough, oven spring well, but the scoring was rather shallow, hence it didn't perform well to create an ear. The oven setting was rather high in fan speed (fan speed 30), that makes the crust form too early.

The second dough, that one using Super Melanger Bread Flour.

With slight changes on the fan speed, awesome! I was overwhelmed by this outcome. The bread was beautifully baked!

Thin crust, soft bread, I prefer not to bake until it is burnt and hard, my habit of taking sourdough, always like to reheat and toast it until crispy, I am totally falling in love with it! The bread can make someone falling in love, my friend Shirley kept on telling me that she doesn't like sourdough bread, not nice, hard and chewy.... and sourish...

I took this bread, and sliced it in front of her, in the mean time she kept telling friends around us, she doesn't like sourdough bread, she has a air fryer, how to use air fryer to toast a sourdough bread, just set 150°C 3 minutes, this will come out just crispy. I saw her took the first byte with butter, her eyes turned big!! And said she can't believe it that the sourdough can taste so good!!

I love sourdough breads, there are many different recipes, some like it sour, like it hard, and like it chewy, some love it soft and less sour. You may choose the type you love!