• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
A Food Lover's Life
  • HOME
  • RECIPES
    • Appetizers & Dips & Snacks
    • Mains
    • Salads
    • Soups & Stews & Chilis
    • Sides
    • Desserts & Sweets
    • Breads & Doughs
    • Breakfast & Brunch
    • Sauces & Pantry
    • Kombucha
      • Booch Basics
      • Kombucha Video Tutorials
      • Brews & Flavor Combinations
    • Friends & Family Creations
  • SOURDOUGH
    • Sourdough School
    • Sourdough Video Tutorials
    • Starter 101
    • Sourdough Recipes
  • VEGETABLE GARDEN
    • Garden Video Tutorials
    • Veggies - by category
      • Eggplant
      • Herbs
      • Microgreens
      • Tomatoes
    • Garden to Table
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • YouTube
  • Collaborations
  • Resources
  • About
  • Privacy Policy
menu icon
go to homepage
search icon
Homepage link
  • HOME
  • RECIPES
    • Appetizers & Dips & Snacks
    • Mains
    • Salads
    • Soups & Stews & Chilis
    • Sides
    • Desserts & Sweets
    • Breads & Doughs
    • Breakfast & Brunch
    • Sauces & Pantry
    • Kombucha
      • Booch Basics
      • Kombucha Video Tutorials
      • Brews & Flavor Combinations
    • Friends & Family Creations
  • SOURDOUGH
    • Sourdough School
    • Sourdough Video Tutorials
    • Starter 101
    • Sourdough Recipes
  • VEGETABLE GARDEN
    • Garden Video Tutorials
    • Veggies - by category
      • Eggplant
      • Herbs
      • Microgreens
      • Tomatoes
    • Garden to Table
×

Home » Sourdough Video Tutorials

Sourdough: How To Shape Batard For Great Oven Spring

August 6, 2020

If you're looking for how to shape a sourdough Batard for great oven spring, you've landed in the right place! A batard is simply an oblong loaf of bread. It's great for slicing for sandwiches and toast. You'll get several slices with the same shape and size.

A loaf of sourdough bread. Batard or oblong shape.

It Was A Warm Day - Temperature Matters When Shaping Sourdough Bread 

I have a few different videos on how to shape sourdough bread for oven spring but I wanted to be sure and post this one because of the warm temperature that day I prepared my dough. It will show what sourdough looks like in very warm conditions. You'll see me struggle with it a little, but eventually, it came together. Varying temperature is just a fact with baking bread. You can think of temperature as an ingredient - it's that important. Warmer room temps will give you active and fast fermentation while cooler temps will slow things way down.

How Warm Is Warm?

Warm for me is anything above 82f while cool is anything below 72. In my kitchen, the sweet spot is about 78f.

Bakers will manipulate temperature to work in their favor. Using warm water when mixing the autolyse is a pretty common one. Another is using a proofing box or an oven light. I use a warm cupboard. The kitchen cupboard that is next to my refrigerator always runs warm and a consistent 78F year round. I use it as a proofing box and proof all sorts of bread and rolls in there. I also soften butter or cream cheese. The items I normally keep in there are in bins so I just slide out the bin and make room for a tray of cinnamon rolls. Then when the rolls are done rising, I put the bin back in.

We all want that oven spring! If you're interested in more batard shaping videos and sourdough recipes you might like BEGINNER TARTINE SOURDOUGH BREAD and SOURDOUGH SCORE GALLERY

  • Sourdough: How To Shape Round Boule For Great Oven Spring
  • Technique: Learning Pre-Shape and Shape for Sourdough Bread & also Proofing!
  • Spring Peas with Herbs
  • The Best Zucchini Spice Cake Recipe with Cream Cheese Frosting
  • How To Score Sourdough Bread Video

New on the blog!

  • Frosted Cake Mix Cookies Recipe With Duncan Hines
  • Tuscan Focaccia With Red Onion and Green Olive Recipe
  • Savory Garden Harvest Veggie Tart Recipe
  • Strawberry Shortcake Recipe In Mini Mason Jars

If you have questions about high elevation baking I would recommend you check out the link below.

King Arthur Flour https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/learn/resources/high-altitude-baking

« The Best Zucchini Spice Cake Recipe with Cream Cheese Frosting
Sourdough: How To Shape Round Boule For Great Oven Spring »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Brad Belt

    April 25, 2021 at 10:25 pm

    So if a batard is oblong shaped, do different breads shaped in different geometric configurations have different names? Like how about if the bread is shaped as an isosceles triangle? or a polyhedron? What are they called?

    In fact, I challenge you, my dear sister, to create a loaf of bread which is in the shape of a polyhedron for next Thanksgiving. 🙂 It must be entirely symmetrical in three dimensions of course. 🙂

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published.

Recipe Rating




Primary Sidebar

Thanks for stopping by!

Welcome to A Food Lover’s Life. A food & garden blog created to share our tried and true, favorite recipes with you. Cooking and baking, a backyard market garden - we want to share tips & tricks, and some great food along the way. Please browse around and tag along on social media. Let me know you stopped by and thank you for visiting! Read More About Us & Collaborations!

Let's Connect

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • YouTube

Recent Posts

  • Frosted Cake Mix Cookies Recipe With Duncan Hines
  • Tuscan Focaccia With Red Onion and Green Olive Recipe
  • Savory Garden Harvest Veggie Tart Recipe
  • Strawberry Shortcake Recipe In Mini Mason Jars
  • Easy Low Carb Birria Taquitos Recipe
  • Collaborations
  • Resources
  • About
  • Privacy Policy

Keep In Touch

Stay in the loop with the latest blog posts & recipes, news, giveaways, and workshops

IN THE NEWS - FEATURES

I'm so honored to be recognized and featured in these blog posts. THANK YOU!

Top 20 Creator of 2020

Perlick Blog Feature - Perlick on Draft Endless Opportunities

How 4 Food Bloggers Went From Creating Zero to Dozens of Web Stories

 

 

Semi-Serious Stuff

Hey guys! Goes without saying but please research growing methods and techniques according to your zone and specific conditions. Look into your local Ag Extension for helpful information. If you'd like to use an image found on our site, please let us know and we can chat! Thanks again for stopping by we we hope to see you back again soon. ~ Chris & Sara

COPYRIGHT © 2014–2023 - A FOOD LOVER'S LIFE

△