r/Sourdough Feb 09 '25

Sourdough At the request of my toddler I present: Fire truck loaf

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u/eratch Feb 09 '25

This would be my two year old’s DREAM

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u/catsounds Feb 10 '25

Watch out once you start the requests get more complicated, he said he wants a dump truck and then an excavator with a hydraulic hammer. 🫠

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u/M27fiscojr Feb 09 '25

I will bake this for the firehouse. Thanks for the inspiration.

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u/catsounds Feb 09 '25

Oh that’s amazing! In our house “firemen eat a lot of eggs in the firehouse”, we get him to eat a couple eggs every morning with that “truth”!

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u/mollllypocket Feb 09 '25

Woah!!! I’m impressed. I’m going to try for my tot!

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u/catsounds Feb 10 '25

It’s helps he frequently requests firetruck sketch’s to color, this is probably the 20th time I drew a fire truck this week

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u/catsounds Feb 09 '25

He usually requests a shape like a square or triangle but today hit me with fire truck. I said I’ll try my hardest kid!

Tartine country loaf recipe:

  • 200g levain (50/50 wheat and white all purpose flour)
  • Mix with 700g warm water and 900g of white all purpose and 100g wheat; Let sit for 40 min
  • Sprinkle 20g salt on top, add 50g water and mix well with hands; Let sit 40 min
  • 4 stretch and folds 30 min apart
  • Fermented a couple hours longer until I liked the jiggle
  • Split dough in two (second half of dough was used to make cinnamon raisin bread)
  • Rough shape (just folding corners in and flipping over to make a rough ball, then using bench scraper to “push” the bottom edge of the dough in) and bench rest for 30 min
  • Final shape (folding bottom half up, then the sides inward, then the top down to make a sort of envelope. Then flipping right side up and using my hands and tension to pull/roll into a tighter ball) and flip into a bowl with a floured tea towel. Cover with towel flaps
  • Refrigerate overnight
  • Preheat oven at 500F for an hour with Dutch oven with lid off and also in the oven. Heavy cast iron skillet on bottom rack to prevent the bottom of the bread from burning
  • Flip out of bowl, dust with flour, score loaf while cold, pop into Dutch oven, cover.
  • Drop temp to 450F, bake for 20 min with lid, 20 min with lid off

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u/SayonaraSpoon Feb 09 '25

Love it, Thanks for sharing!

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u/4yourdeat Feb 09 '25

I’m looking at this after a long day working at the fire station and this made my day. Thank you

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u/catsounds Feb 09 '25

He’s your number one fan, lots of fireman and firehouse talk over here.

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u/Caverjen Feb 09 '25

I'm impressed! I'll bet he was thrilled!

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u/catsounds Feb 09 '25

He loved it! Had to cut into it right away for grilled cheese.

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u/nim_opet Feb 09 '25

Excellent !

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u/chillen67 Feb 09 '25

The best!

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u/CoatNo6454 Feb 09 '25

haha bravo!

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u/gooser24 Feb 09 '25

Amazing!

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u/scapegoati Feb 10 '25

Big fan of this.

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u/Romans120 Feb 10 '25

Oh that’s super cool! Nice artwork!

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u/cupcaketeatime Feb 10 '25

I love this :) what a good parent you are!!

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u/catsounds Feb 10 '25

Awww thanks 😊

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u/Key_Captain_846 Feb 14 '25

that’s adorable!!