I am from Lucknow and looking at a full-time programme in Delhi. The fee I can plan for. What I cannot estimate well is everything around it — accommodation, food, transport, tools, and what...
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I finish my course in a few months and everyone keeps telling me the first year is brutal, but nobody describes it concretely. What does a normal day actually consist of? How much of it is r...
Every piece of advice I find assumes I already have an audience. I have 140 followers, most of them relatives, and I am not comfortable being on camera. For those of you who built a home bak...
I have a shortlist of five places in Delhi and on paper they are indistinguishable. Same claims, similar fee bands, similarly glossy Instagram. I am looking for the comparison criteria that...
My temper looks right coming out — good snap, decent shine, sets quickly. Then within a day or two there is a dull grey film on the surface. So either my temper is not as good as it looks, o...
I am trying to get my pricing right and I cannot work out how GST fits in at a small scale. Do I need to be registered? Does it change what I should be charging? And is the rate on a cake di...
I am trying to build a realistic budget rather than buying things reactively as each order forces my hand. What does a working home bakery setup actually require, and in what order should I...
Second year of custom orders. I am working most days, turning down some work, and my bank balance has barely moved. On paper this is a successful small business and in practice I am exhauste...
Same recipe, works perfectly in winter, splits and goes soupy in summer no matter what I do. I have tried chilling the bowl, working faster, adding the butter more slowly. What is actually h...
I am mostly baking bread with some viennoiserie, and I have outgrown my current oven. The advice online is contradictory and most of it seems to be written for a different market. What are t...