Will Dessert Survive the Climate Crisis?—w/ Caroline Saunders of The Sustainable Baker
Reversing Climate Change
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How Much Gluten Do You Need to Work Into a Loaf of Bread?
Kernza has lower gluten content than some other bread flowers. And so that means it doesn't have quite the structure to generate that rise. You do want a strong, hyprotein, high glutin flour but crustiness comes from both the baking temperature and importantly, having like a moist environment in the oven as it's baking. If you ever see those little bubbly, crackly things on the outside of a crust, like actual bubbles, that you know that there was like water and steam in that oven.
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