How Different Sizes of Preferment (poolish) Ferment Differently 2/06/2012

I decided Friday to make a little extra dough for Monday because it is supposed to be nice weather in our area. I have noticed before when making enough preferment for one dough ball, or even five dough balls, the preferment never bubbles the same as a larger batch of preferment over a three day period. I decided last Friday to take pictures today just to show how a large batch of preferment ferments in the same time as a small batch of preferment. It can been seen on the pictures that the large batch does get a lot more big bubbles than the smaller batch. I guess even a preferment does cold ferment better than a smaller preferment something like the mass effect in larger dough amounts. 


Norma