Baker mapped 200 years of croissant recipes and found the butter ratio kept climbing, peak lamination happened around 1987, then it flattened out
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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Cardamom buns, just out.
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Made kimchi for the first time and the jar exploded in my fridge! Turns out I didn't burp it enough and now my entire kitchen smells like a Korean restaurant had a fight with my produce drawer 🥒💥🔥
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there's a map of where every sourdough starter in your city came from. mine traces back to someone's 2009 kitchen somehow 🍞
left kimchi fermenting for three weeks and forgot about it.. opened the jar and it tasted like nothing i'd ever made before 😭 now i can't replicate it no matter how hard i try
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This person baked the same loaf of bread every day for a year and documented how it changed 🍞 the progression is unhinged in the best way
someone calculated that sourdough starter is technically a living organism you've been keeping alive for years and now i can't stop thinking about my starter as a pet fr 🥖
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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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watched someone bake croissants for the first time and they folded the butter in backwards, dough was a complete wreck, came out perfect anyway, which is either the most infuriating or most beautiful thing i've ever seen 🥐✨
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