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To get a lighter sweeter texture we suggest you opt for the white flour. You can mimic the steam injection commercial bakers process by making a water bath use a pan of cold water on a rack beneath your bread.
Dense or heavy bread can be the result of not kneading the dough long enough.
My bread is too dense. Overly dense bread occurs when the bread s gluten structure does not contain enough gas. Either not enough gas was created or the gas that was created wasn t retained well enough. Gas raises the bread by opening up the crumb making the bread light and airy.
Another reason for dense bread is when there is an excessive amount of moisture in the bread. The bottom line is that dense heavy bread means that the dough didn t trap enough gas or the yeast didn t produce enough gas. If you are confident you followed the recipe water temperature amount of salt and didn t swap in different flour willy nilly check this handy chart for flour substitution and how it might effect the recipe then the issue is likely down to time and or ambient temperature.
Letting the dough rise too long can also lead to dense and heavy bread. Over proofing will over stretch the gluten structure which cause the air pockets to pop giving a dense crumb when baked. The dough should only just double in size before placing in the oven where it will rise some more.
You can read about over proofed dough here. Dense or heavy bread can be the result of not kneading the dough long enough. Mixing the salt and yeast together or losing patience in the middle of molding your bread and there is not enough tension in your finished loaf before baking.
If you find that your bread collapses or flattens before you bake it you might want to check out this article. The type and texture of the flour play a major role in determining the quality of bread that comes out of the oven. Now the whole wheat flour usually red in color has the hardest most dense composition.
The bread you bake from this flour would also turn out to be equally hard and dry. To get a lighter sweeter texture we suggest you opt for the white flour. While making bread in a bread machine make sure to consider these points.
When you measure flour using cups make sure not to pack flour too dense in a measuring cup otherwise you will end up with much more flour than you need and therefore the bread will come out denser. Measuring flour correctly will solve a lot of dense issues. I m new to the bread baking business and am thoroughly enjoying the experience.
However i seem unable to avoid a heavy dense loaf even though i stick strictly to various recipes i ve tried. Any suggestions as to how to achieve a lighter less dense end result would be greatly appreciated. Sent by chris editor.
Readers do you have any tips or recipes to share that will help make. You can mimic the steam injection commercial bakers process by making a water bath use a pan of cold water on a rack beneath your bread. Otherwise bake your bread for the first half of its bake time inside a dutch oven or casserole dish covered with foil or an oven safe lid to trap moisture around your bread.
My bread is too dense. This is likely down to not enough liquid being incorporated into the initial dough. The amount of liquid needed to get the right dough consistency will depend on moisture.
The short answer to dense bread is always rise. There are many solutions to rise problems. There are also many other bread problems that are not just about rise colour flavour wetness shape.
However denseness is always about the rise.