Making bread at home can be oh-so-satisfying. Kneading the water, flour, and yeast… Watching the dough grow in volume, working it and baking it. It’s almost an emotional process.
When we try our hand at breadmaking, it often happens that the dough is too soft or too hard, it doesn’t rise or it rises too much – leading to a result that’s not quite like the loaves you usually buy at the market. In short, a disaster!
For this reason, we’ve created a list of the 10 most common mistakes we make when baking bread at home. Find them in the Photo Gallery above!
But before, 3 tips to start
1. How do you know when the dough is ready? Take a section of it and form a small ball. Dip it in water. Once the ball rises to the surface, the dough will be ready.
2. Add a container with a little water inside the oven if the bread becomes too dry during baking.
3. To make your bread more delicious, add different kinds of seeds (i.e. sunflower, flax, pine nuts) to the dough after it’s risen.
Now, back to the 10 mistakes to avoid right above in the Photo Gallery!