I’m sorry to say that week 1 of the BBA Challenge was a bust for me. Even though this picture makes the bread look sort of OK, my Anadama was an almost complete failure. It’s not easy to see in this picture (look after the jump for a better shot of this), but my bread had almost no spring in the oven. If you’ve been following other Challenge members, you know that this loaf is significantly flatter than everyone else’s, and my crumb leaves a lot to be desired as well. I’m gearing up to try this again now that I know one key thing: My oven’s all of a sudden running cold! It used to always run hot, but after making this bread and trying to figure out what went wrong, I used 2 different thermometers to test my oven and figured out this VERY IMPORTANT detail.
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