34, home loan running, job I'm competent at but stopped caring about. Been baking on weekends for four years and it's the only part of my week I look forward to. The fear isn't the work, it'...
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My dough passes the windowpane but the surface has these wrinkly lines and creases that make it LOOK underworked. Do surface lines mean anything or am I reading tea leaves?
Twenty minutes into kneading yesterday, arms dying, dough still shaggy, wondering if I'm doing a completely wrong motion. How long should hand kneading actually take? And is the dramatic sla...
No budget for a stand mixer right now but my hand mixer came with a bunch of attachments I've never identified. Two spiral ones, flat ones, and wire whisks. Can the spirals actually knead br...
Every croissant recipe says things like "rest the dough 2-3 hours" and then later "proof 2-3 hours" and I've honestly been treating them as the same step. Park the dough somewhere, wait, con...
Every academy website looks identical. Same stock kitchen photos, same placement claims, same testimonials with first names only 🙄 I'm about to commit serious money and I have no idea how to...
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...
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...