March 7, 2010 - 5:35pm
Spray oil on sourdough
Is using a spray oil like Pam a big no no for sourdough. I am so used to using it on my yeast breads when they are rising and I never gave it a thought when I started to make sourdough bread ( twice ) with ok sucess ? Thank You !
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David
It won't cause problems unless you add too much. A little bit of oil will help keep your dough from crusting while it is rising. Sourdough isn't that much different than other yeasted breads. So...I say go ahead and PAM all you want.
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I use it often. Works just fine.
I just used an oil spray on two loaves of sourdough yesterday and neither one of them split, as I had happen in the past. The crust seems nice and pliable and chewy, I wonder if the spray caused the non-splitting. I sprayed because I didn't want the dough to dry out waiting for the oven to reach temp, I decided a few minutes after starting the oven to see what happens if I just put the loaves, after rising about 1 1/2 times, into a cool oven. Maybe that had something to do with it, as well, i.e., no quick steam effect. Both loaves were in enclosures: one cast iron and the other clay.
Bernie Piel