I made my first loaf today in the new oven; I’ve made plenty of loaves before but it is good to start to get a handle on how the new machine works for bread (answer – very well although it took ages to cook because I’d had the dough in the fridge overnight so it started quite cold).

The other challenge was that our weighing scales stopped working a couple of days ago so I had to rely on all those loaves I’ve baked in the past to judge the proportions. It turned out pretty well although, as a set of unknowns, it makes it a little harder still to scientifically evaluate the loaf.

It is recognisably bread though so that’s all good.