December 19, 2021 - 1:53pm
Emergency! Need help deciding baking time/temperature!
I accidentally forgot 😵💫😵💫😵💫to divide the dough of this bread, so I am proving 2.5 kg of dough. It will be ready to bake in ~ 10 minutes at around 2pm, PST today.
When I made 1.2 kg loaves last year, I baked each loaf at 410 F x ~55 mins.
Do you think I need to adjust the baking temperature/time for this 2.5 kg, enriched loaf? If so, what would you suggest?
P.S. Can I bake enriched bread in a cold oven(no pre-heat)?
Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
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But bear in mind it's not a big loaf but a ring. Can't imagine the baking being much different. It's not like the centre of the bread will need a lot longer to come up to temperature because of the way it is shaped. It is a larger circle as supposed to a taller loaf with the circumference of the strand not varying greatly. In fact if you kept everything in proportion and made the circumference twice as big then the circumference of the strand will be the same and so should the bake - near enough.
I know it's not much help with no definite answer and exact time but I think you can just leave it in a little longer. Or if you see it's getting too dark but needs more time then lower the temperature a little and bake for longer and rotate once or twice during baking as most ovens aren't evenly heated.
Yippee, it's a ring. If the ring is more or less of the same thickness, just larger diameter, it would bake as long as the other ring. I would preheat the oven, but bake it at slightly lower temperature and a little longer, maybe an hour and fifteen minutes? An hour twenty? That is how long it takes to bake large loaves of heavy banana breads in my oven, they are really thick and heavy.