You blew your loaf.
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You successfully proved that it shouldn't be proved for so long though. Congratulations.

Here, I baked this up real quick for you
thanks. I'll get it framed and hang it in the kitchen as a constant reminder of my failure.
Failure or, learning point? Either way, hope it wasn't too bad to clean up
just straight up failure. It was the first warm night in a long time and I'm still on "dead of winter" baking mode rather than "almost summer" baking mode.
It tried to break containment 🚨
Why does it appear to be 150% hydration? Or was it a really long over-proof which digested so much starch and protein that this was the result?
It's a rye loaf so needs more water than just straight wheat.
Ok, interesting; what's your formula? For 100% whole rye I'd settled on about 82% for dense loaves, but was experimenting with 110-130% for reikäleipä type flat loaves.
You left your young yeastlings unsupervised and they had a huge party and left the place trashed, smelling like alcohol and sour, stale air.



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