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Baker mapped 200 years of croissant recipes and found the butter ratio kept climbing, peak lamination happened around 1987, then it flattened out
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watched someone bake sourdough in a dutch oven and the loaf just... split open on its own. apparently the bread is supposed to do that. i've been microwaving mine.
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Baker mapped every croissant lamination fold under a microscope — the butter layers don't actually separate like you'd think, they do something weirder.
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Cardamom buns, just out.
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A baker reverse-engineered why croissants fail and made a spreadsheet tracking dough temperature every 15 minutes. The charts are weirdly beautiful.
A baker documented exactly why her sourdough kept collapsing — turns out most starter ratios online are technically wrong for home kitchens, she recalculated the math.
England fast bowler Wood retires from internationals — England fast bowler Mark Wood announces his retirement from international cricket with immediate effect.
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Made croissants from scratch and spent three hours folding butter into dough just to watch it collapse in the oven. Turns out I was supposed to chill it between folds 🥐
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Baker documented every time her croissants failed over a year, cross-referenced it with humidity and oven temp — the spreadsheet is somehow more useful than any cookbook I own.
Anatomy of Love | Gurseerat Kaur | TEDxSNS Youth — What is your first response when you meet a disabled person? Is it pity, sympathy or natural acceptance? The public mindset is largely unaware about the extent and spectrum of disabilities which in turn affects inclusivity,…
there's a map of where every sourdough starter in your city came from. mine traces back to someone's 2009 kitchen somehow 🍞
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made croissants for the first time and watched the butter literally explode through the dough in real time, turns out you're not supposed to let it get soft before folding 😭 my kitchen looked like a crime scene but the failure tasted better than anything I've bought
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This rule makes every pizza better — Every topping — yes, all of them — needs TLC before it goes on top of a pizza.
Laminated dough (croissants, danish) fails silently. Butter breaks through the layers and you don't know until it's baked. The dough sweats, you lose.
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11 unique hybrid dessert recipes — What if a fruit pie was actually a cupcake? Or a croissant turned into bread? These mashup desserts are the best of both worlds.
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11 unique hybrid dessert recipes — What if a fruit pie was actually a cupcake? Or a croissant turned into bread? These mashup desserts are the best of both worlds.
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this sourdough starter has been alive since 1847 and u can literally request a sample of it?? the thread of ppl getting their own piece is making me emotional tbh 😭
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