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this was my first sourdough on the kk. i hit around 475 on the upper grate when placing the loaf in. i threw in about 3/4 of a tall glass of ice on the main grate and down the drip tray. lots of steam for the first few minutes, then nothing. dome temp dropped to around 400f and when climbing back, maxed around 450. basically pulled the bottom vent drawer out and top vent open to maintain this. my bad for cooking with left lover coals from tonights chicken dinner but i was hoping for hotter temps and not struggle to maintain 500. i don’t know why the rise was so tilted. was it from excessive steam? this never happens when i use my bread cloche. the bread internal temp was done at over 200f, but the bottom looks under cooked, and that probably meant my stone wasn’t hot enough and i didn’t bother taking out my ir gun to measure stone temp. judging by the flat top, there may be some collapsed pockets inside. not my best loaf by far, and i’m completely out of my comfort zone when it comes to live fire bread baking. will post the crumbs once its cool enough to slice.

With 11 million viewers.. he's planted the KK seed in a lot of people's minds even if they don't know it.. Favorite bit.. They gave it to you? No I bought it! That's Gold Baby!

If going in the fridge for i hours I would proof closer to 4 hours at room temp. I proofed for 2 hours this morning but in my oven at 95 degrees. I love my new oven 😁

maybe. it was left out room temp overnight after stretch and fold. and cold retard in the fridge for another 8 hours. and two more hours room temp before baking. i noticed the final form did not fill the basket, which it has done in the past. this one was proofed and baked the same way with my home oven and ceramic cloche. but the temp was consistently higher. i think i need to set the kk to 550 to compensate for the loss in temp once ice drops...

One was a fritter the other was fried chicken thighs.

Mexican cheese on sweet corn it was great

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Looks nice but looks like it needed to be proofed a little longer.

Nice looking crumb!

im eating this for breakfast and its underbaked and a little gummy, but edible. still don’t understand the tilted rise. maybe part of the side was dried out during CT. checked the charcoal basket this morning, and definitely not enough charcoal to maintain heat.

That is a rare 'spiral loaf', typically seen on saturn.

Looking forward to seeing what is inside. I have 2 in the oven right now, trying for a marbled rye lol. It's snowing out so its a good day to cook inside. And I'd agree that if the bottom looks under cooked the stone wasn't hot enough.

@PoochieI went to Austin couple 3 years back before the pandi and a local took me to Terry Black's. Said you don't have to wait in line forever and it's just as good or better than Franklin's. At Franklin's - there's a line around the building starting early in the morning and they sell out during lunch time a lot of days. Only worth it if you have all morning. I was there on business - did not have all morning. Anyway Terry Black's was awesome. If Franklin's truly is the best for some reason, it would have to be completely mind blowing to beat what I had at Terry Black's. Truly inspiring BBQ. I got beef ribs and brisket. It is one of the reasons why I got my KK - because I wanted to try to match or beat the beef I had at this place. The beef ribs to me were the most amazing. Brisket was great too. I've done some good brisket, but I have not run across (or bothered to special order from my butcher) some big beef ribs. Got to try that sometime. https://www.terryblacksbbq.com/austin

Go to Babes Chicken Dinner House, i love that place. Go to the original out by the speedway in Roanoke TX They have two things on the menu, fried chicken and chicken fried steak. Ok they don't actually have a menu, you just pick one or the other and they bring it with the sides. Did I mention i love that place lol Babes Fried Chicken

Brings back such very fond memories of my delivery. Great idea with the plastic sheet rental. Eagerly awaiting pics of your cooks and more.

I tried to upload the clip. Obviously, it didn’t work. What movie file types can be uploaded?