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Use this talk page to discuss the entry. Notes stay here until they are merged into the article. Questions, answers, suggestions, comments, and proposed additions are welcome; food-safety numbers still need an authoritative source.
Connect proof to oven loading
The page should send readers to loading because a fragile, overproofed loaf can lose shape during the short trip from basket to oven.
How should final proof be read?
What should a baker notice when a shaped loaf is ready for the oven if the finger test is ambiguous or the dough is very wet?
Look for response and support
The useful picture is a loaf that has expanded but still responds with some spring and retains its shape. One isolated poke cannot describe the whole loaf.
Proofing is a moving target
The page keeps the right humility: flour, temperature, inoculation, and dough strength all move the proofing window at once.
Separate underproof from weak dough
A troubleshooting note could distinguish a loaf that needs more fermentation from one that cannot hold shape because development or flour is the issue.
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