Fresh milled flour hydration test. Hard red wheat berries for sourdough

Why and how to test your fresh milled wheat before diving into a recipe. Learn from my mistake of trying to accomplish a 90% hydration recipe with a wheat berry and mill that performs best at 85%. See how I calculate my test and what I’m looking for in a dough.

[olsendba]

Thank you for that detailed explanation!

[cindyprickett]

Excellent explanation and tutorial! Helped me out so much. Thanks!

[BreadChickensQuiilting]

Thank you for not editing out real life!!! Love it!!! I miss homeschooling my kiddos. They grow up fast!

[EricaMEspino]

Thank you for this video I learned from what you did and I did it myself. Looking forward to more videos from you.

[davidwellman]

This is very helpful since I am also starting with fresh milled wheat berries. Thank you.🙂

[savagefrieze]

Very helpful. I was getting to this point but you did it for me!

[hannahlevy]

How fun! My 3-year-old is sitting on my lap as we watch your video, and she is also eating a slice of Mommy's fresh milled bread. ❤

I've been experimenting with hydration today. I have four recipes, 63.5%, 78%, 80%, and 89%. The 63.5% is terrible for my fresh milled hard white flour. It is a log. 😂 The 78% is very nice, but could have more rise. The 80% is lovely. And the 89% won't be ready until tomorrow!

Thanks to your video I will also try 85%!

[christybroadhead]

Great video, thanks! And I loved your little guy trying to get his time in the spotlight.

[stagecoachist]

Oh yes girl .. thanks for all your work this was so helpful ..newbie here too

[LouieEB]

This is so helpful! thanks, I'm going to try this. We homeschool too! I thought that looked like a All About Reading/Spelling card 🙂

[lesliegilbeaux]

Looks amazing! Where can I find the sourdough recipe you used? Do you feed your started with freshly milled flour too?

[MrPelletty]

Try sifting your flour. There is sometimes too many large sharp clumps of grain that could cut the gluten and prevent structure and absorption within the dough.

[stagecoachist]

I have the Nutrimill and I too would want the finest grind 👍

[WhatWeDoChannel]

Thanks for this. What makes organic better? I hear that all wheat is non GMO.

[squirrelavengerr]

Is this assuming that the sourdough is using 100% of the flour you are testing? If you want to use a % of fresh milled and a % of store-bought, then would you use the same same mix of fresh milled/store bought in each container? I am exploring the idea of using fresh milled flour and i have heard that using 100% fresh milled flour produces a really dense loaf of SD bread.

[stagecoachist]

By the way …what scale is that you are using, it looks like glass and a pretty wide real estate!

[CrownCDA]

For your starter, do you still feed it 1-1-1 or do you do 85% water for that too? 👀 newb here..

[faithunchainedfnd]

Sorry, your son is doing that intentionally. It ruined the video