is my dough too wet or too dry?

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the one on the bottom turned out quite nice.

the one on the top I'm just making now.

Is it too wet or too dry?  Should I still add some water at this stage (1st "knead" before autolyse of 30 mins.)?

 

It's a multigrain type loaf bread.  Wheat, rye, bread, rye berries, wheat berries, black patton malt, malt syrup, gluten, wheat/rye/bread starter.

 In my opinion, it looks too dry.  Whole grain doughs ususlly soak up more moisture than do those made from only white flour (bran removed).

Ford

I ended up adding a tbsp of water at a time until it looked right over a few mins.

It has finished the autolyse and I just added yeast and salt.

Think it's gonna be OK .......... I hope.  We're out of my last loaf.!!