Sourdough Bread: How Dough Shape and Size Influence Crumb

[Melissa Johnson]

Ever notice that you seem to get a more open crumb with smaller loaves? In this series of experiments, we made large batches of dough and then divided them into differently sized and shaped loaves while otherwise striving to treat them as close to identically as we could to see how these size and shaping differences affect the resulting crumb.
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