Twice now I've done the whole temper dance, hit the right numbers, filled six moulds... and unmoulded dull streaky chocolate an hour later 😭 is there a way to CHECK temper before committing...
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Orders are growing and the itch to buy a bigger oven is GROWING FASTER 😅 but I've read enough horror stories about people buying commercial equipment for demand that never came. Is there an...
Every recipe greases differently. Some say butter, some oil, some butter AND flour, and my grandmother says just use paper and stop overthinking. Is there logic to this or is it all habit? A...
Recipes always present bonbons as fixed sets - THIS shell with THIS filling. Am I allowed to freestyle? dark shell with the fruity filling, white shell with the boozy one? or is there chemis...
Ran out of milk mid-recipe (classic) and used water same-to-same. Bread came out fine?? slightly less soft maybe. So what does milk actually DO in bread and is 1:1 the right swap?
Goa kitchen: 24 degrees on a rainy morning, 36 by afternoon. My proofing times are basically astrology at this point. What's the actual target temperature, and how do you hit it when the kit...
A large share of my orders are eggless and I've never been happy with my sponge. Everything I try is either dense, or gummy, or has that slightly synthetic aftertaste I can taste even when c...
My pav comes out decent but random - some batches tall and fluffy, some spread flat. I'm using a regular cake tin and eyeballing the portions, which I suspect is the problem 😅 What tin and w...
Invested in two proper polycarbonate trays after this forum peer-pressured me (lovingly) 😄 now paranoid about ruining them. What's the correct wash-and-care routine? and why do my shells som...
Watched the danish shaping and there's this firm little press-down in the middle of each square before baking. Feels rude 😄 but clearly deliberate. What's it doing? And what happens if I ski...