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DrafterX wrote:

Why hello my favorite Rambo! Nice to see you! Lol How are things?

MrsSledn wrote:

Experimented with a red curry beef recipe for lunch.

HockeyDad wrote:

I tried making french baguettes over the weekend. Since everyone is on this bread making binge, I thought I would try.

It was a ridiculous fail.
Unmitigated disaster on multiple levels.
Took days of trying to get the dough to act like dough....
Constant rolling, kneading, putting back in a container and cleaning the surface again....

Came back with the saddest, flattest looking baguettes ever.

victor809 wrote:

Maybe your yeast was no good? did you proof it first? I've made that mistake, lotta work for paperweights.

benja123 wrote:

No yeast... that was part of my problem. I tried "cultivating wild yeast".... I had a starter I'd gotten going, which seemed ok. Added that to the recipe....

Which was wildly unsuccessful. That was one reason I couldn't get it to rise in the first hour or two, and had to let it sit and rise overnight.

I've got a packet of beer yeast, 'll try that next time.

Other things I discovered were a mess mid-baking? My goddamn scale was literally reading at 50% of the actual weight. I had no idea until I threw my nearly full beer can on it out of curiosity and it came back at about 6oz.

victor809 wrote: