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Weak flour re-visited
Could you help choose my first stand mixer?
On making pannetonne.
Deli rye bread without wheat
Medieval baking
Rosemary -- using dried vs. fresh?
A salt question
The bottom of my bread is almost burned, what to do?
HDPE "food-grade" bucket = bad news
100% Whole Grain, 100% Home Milled
First bake "2026" (It's going to be a good year!)
Remilled Semola bread with semola sourdough
Possible to leave starter out too long without feeding?
New here needing help
Squash in sourdough
DDT best practices? (maintain temp for bulk?)
Hi, everyone!
potentially contentious rye discussion for 2026
Panettone 2025
Miche, Pointe-À-Callière
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Blog Posts
No cut oven spring, a Natural Bloom
Wild Rice Whole Kamut Sourdough Sandwich Bread
Baguettes de Tradition with old dough
Now you see it …
Lemon Ricotta Tart
Nice Dough for French Folds
Soft Pretzels
Differences between home and commercial baking
them old overfermentation blues
Today's exercise. Low inoculation, Rustic semolina filone
Dosa - sourdough gf flatbread in 2 days
80/20 Rye buckwheat biga loaf
Pandoro
First bake of 2026: My favorite Multigrain Sourdough
Parmesan Maple Sour Dough
For today's exercise. The Brooklyn Maltese makes, Pastisti!
Double Chestnut Whole Wheat Sourdough Hokkaido Milk Bread
"Montanara-Style" Pizza with 00 Flour
2025 Panettone thoughts
Today's exercise: To create a light, airy flourless/ sugarless cranberry Bundt cake.
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tpassin
6 minutes 11 seconds ago
Weak flour re-visited
Yup! It didn’t look like a…
kay-dee
32 minutes 11 seconds ago
Weak flour re-visited
Well...
Moe C
1 hour 16 minutes ago
Weak flour re-visited
Thank you for your kind…
Benito
1 hour 35 minutes ago
Wild Rice Whole Kamut Sourdough Sandwich Bread
Hiya Tom. And yes, I’m…
kay-dee
2 hours 21 minutes ago
Weak flour re-visited
Rob... Not sure about adding…
kay-dee
2 hours 23 minutes ago
Weak flour re-visited
Bosch Compact
alcophile
6 hours 6 minutes ago
Could you help choose my first stand mixer?
High % white rye
alcophile
9 hours ago
Deli rye bread without wheat
thanks, Katie. Here's some…
squattercity
14 hours 12 minutes ago
Weak flour re-visited
Timing of S&F sessions…
tpassin
14 hours 16 minutes ago
Weak flour re-visited
Thanks for your support,…
kay-dee
14 hours 24 minutes ago
Weak flour re-visited
Thanks for hanging with me,…
kay-dee
14 hours 26 minutes ago
Weak flour re-visited
Thank you for commenting,…
kay-dee
14 hours 30 minutes ago
Weak flour re-visited
Sadly Killed two Kitchen Aids…
foodforthought
14 hours 49 minutes ago
Could you help choose my first stand mixer?
Great looking crumb, Benny!
albacore
15 hours 30 minutes ago
Wild Rice Whole Kamut Sourdough Sandwich Bread
Glad to see you back!This…
VerdigRegis
16 hours 12 minutes ago
Weak flour re-visited
Kitchen Aid
Myles
16 hours 26 minutes ago
Could you help choose my first stand mixer?
You'll get there
Moe C
18 hours ago
Weak flour re-visited
Great try, Katie! I've made…
squattercity
18 hours 23 minutes ago
Weak flour re-visited
I meant you can't plug in a…
Overproofed
18 hours 30 minutes ago
Could you help choose my first stand mixer?
That's not entirely true,…
tpassin
18 hours 43 minutes ago
Could you help choose my first stand mixer?
Weak Flour Re-visited
kay-dee
19 hours 9 minutes ago
Matteo Festo and Weak Flour
Hello Tom Yes I considered…
Overproofed
19 hours 41 minutes ago
Could you help choose my first stand mixer?
Just a question for you…
Benito
19 hours 56 minutes ago
Wild Rice Whole Kamut Sourdough Sandwich Bread
You could also consider the…
tpassin
20 hours 14 minutes ago
Could you help choose my first stand mixer?
Very nice!
trailrunner
20 hours 17 minutes ago
No cut oven spring, a Natural Bloom
beauteous!
squattercity
23 hours 28 minutes ago
No cut oven spring, a Natural Bloom
Thx, TomP! I think a palm…
squattercity
23 hours 31 minutes ago
them old overfermentation blues
Thx Jon. I might try Wild…
squattercity
23 hours 38 minutes ago
them old overfermentation blues
Homemade Tahini method
trailrunner
1 day ago
Wild Rice Whole Kamut Sourdough Sandwich Bread
I agree with Caroline, that…
Benito
1 day ago
Double Chestnut Whole Wheat Sourdough Hokkaido Milk Bread
Definitely Caroline, I’d be…
Benito
1 day ago
Wild Rice Whole Kamut Sourdough Sandwich Bread
I couldn’t agree more Tom…
Benito
1 day ago
Wild Rice Whole Kamut Sourdough Sandwich Bread
Oh my so glad
trailrunner
1 day 12 hours ago
Double Chestnut Whole Wheat Sourdough Hokkaido Milk Bread
😵🫠
Isand66
1 day 12 hours ago
Double Chestnut Whole Wheat Sourdough Hokkaido Milk Bread
Boule vs baguette
SueVT
1 day 14 hours ago
Baguettes de Tradition with old dough
These look great Sue!
albacore
1 day 14 hours ago
Baguettes de Tradition with old dough
If 12% is lost through moisture evaporation...
Abe
1 day 14 hours ago
A salt question
I would try a #30 screen…
tpassin
1 day 15 hours ago
them old overfermentation blues
Apparently any hard roll…
Imissgoodkaiserrolls
1 day 15 hours ago
Crescent Rolls, not croissant.
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