Vent: My sourdough bread split weirdly in the oven from bad scoring. | Baking Fails And Wins - Freelance Forum - The Community for Independent Professionals

Wyatt Thomas · 2026-02-27T00:40:36.742989+00:00

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?

sam9127mo ago

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

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sethm587mo 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.

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matthewnelson7mo ago

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

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