Yes, you can!

Simply use some to start an off shoot (which will become the levain for your bake). Most starters adapt well to all kinds of flour, but do tend to do better on whole grain, so something like whole wheat is a good place to start.

I was like you for a long time, especially since at the time I had a round Dutch oven. But, since getting batard bannetons as well I’ve loved the taller loaves I get with more loft to them.

Great blisters! I think the trick to keep in your head is that fermentation curve.

"The difference between 70F/21C and 80F/27C may not seem like a lot, but the fermentation rate at 70F/21C is about 50% slower than the fermentation rate at 80F/27C."

As usual, lovely breads.

Pretty sure that you were weighing for your normal breads (how else would you make, say the Tartine country loaf)?

It makes sense to weigh the starter amount as well then, just to make things repeatable.

Lovely crust you have there, Jim Challenger!

Voilà! Nice to see what you could achieve on a first go and hopefully there will be many more tries where you just keep getting better and better.

Exactly my name for it as well. There are different ways to close off ends, another way is to grab the top and tuck it over and under the end.

Looking forward to posts about what you can come up with using this!

Lovely golden colour.

Love the experimentation, and great crumb for 70% whole wheat too

Your bagels look great. Fresh bagels are one of the most amazing foods to eat, the trouble is that I eat too many

Beautiful. So… this was your usual FWSY, but it tasted Tartine-like, or did you follow the Tartine recipe?

Very inviting crumb, well baked!

Lovely breads, how did you find the baguette shaping?

It’s strange that it doesn’t have sugar in it, like a sweet stiff levain

Do you always make them just with white bread flour, or do you sometimes vary it for kicks?

Care to share with us something about this pretty loaf?

Have been enjoying your breads and it has been great for the group.

Would you mind saying a little bit about each bread, like what recipe you used and your thoughts about each bread?

Think it is a lot more interesting that way than just photos of good looking bread. Thanks for your posts!

Looks like you’ve had great success with FWSY lately. Beautiful

Love the shine and scoring pattern, really pretty.