Bread - What are you baking today…..

[neph93]

@Chap:

Oh that pizzas look great… I am doing a Biga bread right now and pizza tomorrow. The breads look great too, very nice and airy crumb.

I was making seven of them for seven people and was all moving pretty quickly, so I didn’t get snaps of the crust, or even the best pies, but it was indeed airy and delicious.

[Chap]

Flour Water Salt Yeast

[Giles]

50% Forkish Poolish with 25% eight-grain, and what @Chap has christened "The French Wonder Yeast"…..

[Chap]

It is… hell of a yeast.

Biga Pizza with The French Wonder Yeast...

[Filthy2123ozjunkie]

@Giles I'd appreciate it if you'd start selling loaves of bread in the store too please

[Giles]

I can do yeast 

[Filthy2123ozjunkie]

[Chap]

These two French Wonder Yeast Poolish Beauties just left the oven…

[neph93]

I think I may need buy a shirt or something, just to get a bag of wonder yeast from @Giles 

[vaquero357]

…man, everything looks fantastic!

...@neph93 why is the split so important when your loaves looks so good? Aesthetics?

[neph93]

@vaquero357:

Aesthetics?

That is it, yes. So it really doesn't matter at all. I have seven people living with me so my bread baking is a practical thing, but it is also a hobby and I like to get all nerdy. The split is cool as part of the fun is watching how your dough goes from a sticky mess to a firm mess, to shaped loaves, to finished bread. The oven spring (final rise), is the best part.

The rounded loaves that come from the baking steel are nice. They taste exactly the same as the loaves with a split and have the same height and crust, but the split is very satisfying.

[vaquero357]

…it cracks me up sometimes that it's all the guy's here baking and cooking! Renaissance men!

...my Dad you to say "if sheep could cook".........wait a minute. ??? :o

[neph93]

@vaquero357:

…it cracks me up sometimes that it's all the guy's here baking and cooking! Renaissance men!

Modern women like to say "get you a man who can do both". I cook, I do the laundry, I make bread, I raise the kids, I change tires, I shovel snow, I build shit, I fix shit, I drink, I swear, I fart. I like it that way personally. I don't use skin cream though, just to be clear.

[sabergirl]

Traditional gender roles are for chumps. Also: just because I don’t post pics don’t mean I’m not cookin’ [emoji6]

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[Chap]

@neph93:

@vaquero357:

…it cracks me up sometimes that it's all the guy's here baking and cooking! Renaissance men!

Modern women like to say "get you a man who can do both". I cook, I do the laundry, I make bread, I raise the kids, I change tires, I shovel snow, I build shit, I fix shit, I drink, I swear, I fart. I like it that way personally. I don't use skin cream though, just to be clear.

I use some eye cream from time to time…  :-X. especially after those one or two beers too much nights Baking and cooking is fun... why should we leave that to women? 

[Chap]

[neph93]

@Chap:

I use some eye cream from time to time…  :-X. especially after those one or two beers too much nights

I have a problem with creams. Hate them. Hate using sun screen although I do, obviously.

[Chap]

@neph93:

@Chap:

I use some eye cream from time to time…  :-X. especially after those one or two beers too much nights

I have a problem with creams. Hate them. Hate using sun screen although I do, obviously.

Ever tried this one?

Oh wait… you‘re Welsh, right? 

[Giles]

Yes.  So he uses this:

https://www.tfmsuperstore.co.uk/products/shepherds-secret-hand-cream-lanolin/

[Chap]

@Giles:

Yes.  So he uses this:

https://www.tfmsuperstore.co.uk/products/shepherds-secret-hand-cream-lanolin/

Mitchell‘s great by the way… I use their wool fat shaving soap