Roti
I decided to try making roti — Indian flat bread — over the weekend and discovered you should just go to a good store and buy it pre-made. That is all....
Buying A Mixer
A fair number of people have told me they’d love to bake more but they don’t have a stand mixer and can’t afford one. First of all, a mixer is a convenience. Okay, if you want to make something very wet like ciabatta or brioche, I’d say it’s a...
Salt, Water, Yeast, Flour
Sourdough breads are all pretty much just salt, water, yeast/starter, and flour. Sometimes I need to increase or decrease the total amount but keep the ratios the same. I had a spreadsheet for this but decided to make it a web-form to have available and some others might find...
Tare
Here’s a helpful tip, either write on your bowls the weight of them or keep a list somewhere — that way you can just plop it down on the scale and know the weight of the contents by doing some simple math. Need to know how much that dough...
Consistency
There’s an old saying: “A person with one watch knows what time it is. A person with two watches is never sure.” The Internet has made this more true and more broad than ever. I can look at three different weather websites and get three different current temperatures for...