How to Season Your Cast Iron Dutch Oven

This is how you season your cast iron dutch oven. In this case a challenger bread pan.


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The recipe for the dough I was making in the end:
350g of bread flour
50g of whole wheat flour
300g of water
80g of sourdough starter
8g of salt

Instructions:
1. For the overnight dough mix all together right away.
2. It's crucial to add a lot of dough strength to the dough at the start, as we don't do any stretch and folds in between.
3. The fermentation at around 22°C will take approximately 12 hours.
4. Once the sample reached a 50% size increase, proceed and shape the bread.
5. Proof at room temperature until the finger poke test passes, or, place in the fridge for 12-24 hours.
6. Bake in your dutch oven at 230°C for 25 minutes lid covered, 20 minutes without

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Recommended videos:
Debaked ep. 1 - Pizza journey to Napoli: https://thbrco.io/debaked-napoli
Debaked ep. 2 - Journey to a flour mill: https://thbrco.io/debaked-flour-mill
Discard starter bread: https://thbrco.io/discard-starter-bread
Fermentation time table: https://thbrco.io/fermentation-time-t...
Make a sourdough starter: https://thbrco.io/make-sourdough-starter
Make your starter more active: https://thbrco.io/more-active-starter
Recommend sourdough bread recipe: https://thbrco.io/sourdough-recipe

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:13 Why you have to season your cast iron
2:46 Cleaning your dutch oven
5:55 Seasoning your dutch oven with oil
8:57 Applying the second seasoning
10:37 Putting the dutch oven to the test
12:00 Closing words

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