Divide off a piece of it: a half or a quarter, depending if you want to make 2 large loaves in total, or 4 smaller baguette-sized loaves. Re-spray the bowl and return the balance of the dough to it, and cover it with a fresh piece of plastic. Shape the piece of dough as you wish: into a round boule, a long thin baguette, or an oval batârd.Punch dough down and divide into 8 equal portions. Shape each portion into a 4-inch round loaf; place four loaves onto each prepared baking sheet. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled in volume, about 35 minutes.
Your chosen alternative may not allow you to shape the dough how you want to. Using a specific banneton shape will allow you to shape your dough into a batard, boule, courrone etc. The banneton alternative you choose may not be the right size. Too big and your dough will spread out, sacrificing oven spring. Too small and it may overflow the
A unit ball (open or closed) is a ball of radius 1. A ball in a general metric space need not be round. For example, a ball in real coordinate space under the Chebyshev distance is a hypercube, and a ball under the taxicab distance is a cross-polytope . A subset of a metric space is bounded if it is contained in some ball.
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