Baguette shaping quest continued

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From a batch of 3 this guy has been singled out as the prettiest !
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Got two of the same snaps.  The second was supposed to be this one with the flash - what was pleasing with this bake was the amount of Browning along the ears which doesn't always come out in the photos but after a bit of a change up on oven configuration - starting to see much better development of ears.  In this bake the middle loaf was preshape a bit tighter than the other two and that really shows in the final shape.  Crumb as usual did pretty much what was hoped and is very much like eating a French crueller dougnut.  This was a 12 hour bulk which is not as long as I like and its quite obvious in the final flavor as 18-24 brings out incredible additional dimensions.  Still, pretty pleased with the overall results :)

 

 

crumb - and they are ALL darned pretty loaves!

From these, I'd say that you will be in need of a new quest soon...