Made beautiful chocolate granola bars, crisp and solid straight from setting. Left the box on the counter for a customer pickup and by evening they were bendy and crumbling apart 😭 Recipe is...
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Half the internet says never let salt touch yeast or the bread dies. The other half dumps everything in one bowl and their loaves look great. Which is it?? And if salt is dangerous why does...
Every few bakes one croissant dramatically unrolls in the oven like it's escaping 😄 should I be gluing the tip down with water or egg wash? or is unrolling a symptom of something else?
The question I keep going in circles on. There's an enormous amount of free content and I've genuinely learned a lot from it. My sponges are good, my lamination is passable, my chocolate wor...
My breads generally turn out well but bagels are defeating me. Crumb is noticeably drier than my other breads from the same day, and the surface has ugly blisters instead of that smooth glos...
Recipes keep saying knead to "full gluten development" and check with the windowpane test. Mine tears every time and I can't tell if I need five more minutes or if I've already ruined it. Wh...
By the time my moulds are polished and sheets laid out, my beautifully tempered chocolate has drifted below working temp and thickened 😤 do I re-temper from scratch every time or is there a...
Keep meeting the word "poolish" in serious bread recipes like I'm supposed to know it. What actually is it, how's it different from biga, and does the overnight wait genuinely change the bre...
Nine years in IT and I'm seriously considering the switch to pastry. Everyone I ask gives me a completely different number and honestly half of them are either selling me a course or trying...
Been taking orders for about a year and I'm busy, which everyone treats as good news. But last month I actually added up ingredients, gas, packaging, delivery and the HOURS... I'm close to b...