Easy Sourdough Baguettes

Step 1

To the bowl of your stand mixer add: 675g bread flour and 15g salt

Step 2

Mix with the paddle attachment on 1, until it’s been incorporated.

Step 3

Then add: 450g water and 150g sourdough starter.

Step 4

Mix with the paddle on 1 until everything has been incorporated.

Step 5

Then switch to the dough hook and mix for 5 minutes on While the dough is mixing add as much water needed to make the dough tacky, but not sticky.

Step 6

Check for a windowpane by pulling a little piece of dough out and see if it’s strong enough to pull the dough so thin that you can see light through it. If it fails, mix in increments of 2 minutes until it passes.

Step 7

Instead of using a stand mixer you can also knead the dough by hand until you get a windowpane. It will probably take 10 to 15 minutes.

Step 8

When the windowpane passes, move the dough to a see-through bulking container.

Step 9

Wet your hands and level the dough. The mark the top of the dough with a whiteboard marker.

Step 10

Then let the dough grow by 25 to 50%.

Step 11

Then divide the dough into 3 equally sized pieces and dust the top with flour.

Step 12

Flip the dough over and roll it up into a tight log and do the same for the other two.

Step 13

Let them rest on the counter for 20 minutes and then proceed to the final shaping.

Step 14

Grab a log and stretch it out to double the size you want the final baguette to be.

Step 15

Fold the right side into the middle and then fold the left side into the middle.

Step 16

Then going all the way down the length of the baguette, fold the back towards the front, about to the middle.

Step 17

Then flip it around and then go all the way down the baguette again, folding the back towards the front, all the way over.

Step 18

Then work the baguette across the table, pushing it forwards or backwards at the bottom of the dough, to work the baguette to the exact length that you want it.

Step 19

Then flour the pan with rice flour and add the baguette to the pan or you can also use a piece of parchment paper on the pan if you feel like the dough is a bit too wet.

Step 20

Continue with the other two the exact same way.

Step 21

Then sprinkle rice flour on top of all the baguettes and add them to a bag big enough to hold the pan.

Step 22

Put the dough in the fridge for at least 8 hours, but up to 48 hours.

Step 23

When you want to bake, heat your oven to 230°Celsius/450°Fahrenheit/Gasmark I didn’t use fan assist or convection, but you can.

Step 24

Add a pan to the bottom of the oven that will be used for steaming.

Step 25

I have a baking steel in my oven, which means I heat it for an hour. If you don’t use one, you can just bake when the oven says it’s hot enough.

Step 26

When the oven is hot, boil a kettle of water.

Step 27

Then grab the baguette pan from the fridge and sprinkle the top of the baguettes with rice flour.

Step 28

Score the baguettes with 3 long, slightly overlapping scores and grab the pan and add it to the hot oven.

Step 29

Pour the kettle of boiling water into the pan at the bottom and quickly close the oven.

Step 30

Bake for 8 minutes and then oven the oven and remove the steaming pan.

Step 31

Bake for about 25 to 30 minutes more until the baguette is golden brown and super crisp.

Step 32

Remove the pan from the oven and put the baguettes on a wire rack and let them cool down or if you can just serve them immediately.