Vent: My sourdough bread split weirdly in the oven from bad scoring.

I watched a guide on how to score bread dough. My knife slip made the cuts too deep. Now the loaf has a giant tear down the side. What's the trick to scoring without ruining the rise?

4 comments

4 Comments

kai_sanchez331mo ago

Was your dough maybe too wet when you scored it?

sam9121mo ago

Oh, absolutely. My dough was basically soup, which explains the... abstract art result. I'll blame my overenthusiastic water pouring.

sethm581mo ago

Yeah, that tracks. I was aiming for that nice, open crumb and ended up with something closer to a pancake batter. The scoring knife just dragged through it like a stick in mud. My loaf came out looking less like art and more like a crime scene.

matthewnelson1mo ago

See that a lot, kai_sanchez33, things get messy when you rush.

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