Also cantopop is great, but I don’t know any bands by name

Hiperson is great, they’re from Chengdu, its kinda indie-rocky

Wang Wen is from Dalian, more post-punk vibes, Invisible City is a great album

tbf having a giant restaurant grade mixer with a dough hook is doing a lot of lifting here, this dough also gets really slack if I don’t mix it right or use too much AP. Had one batch go completely gloopy because my starter was old, way too sour to develop gluten

Yeah it’s nuts how stiff the dough can get, even with a lot of water.

Right now I’m doing ~83% hydration, feels like a good balance between open crumb and ease of handling.

Thank you! Right now I’m doing a quick autolyse and then a quick saltolyse (?), around 10-15 min each, I’ve tried with a longer autolyse where I mix it at the same time I’m making the levain, but couldn’t see a big difference. Keeping some water back and dissolving the salt in that before mixing helps with the distribution a lot. Gluten development is not a problem right now, I actually had to cut back on the Manitoba flour, replacing a third with AP because it was getting too tight.

he’s gonna start posting on xiaohongshu and accidentally make peace with china too because he finds that guy from chongqing that does a trump impression

In Israel, prostrate surgeon.

Number one. Steady hand. One day, genocide boss need prostrate removed. I do operation. But mistake! Jewish Hitler boss die! Mossad very mad! I hide fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car and new woman. Darryl save life.

My big secret. I kill genocide boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!

Prigozhin-posting

Sorry, Shitr is currently only for pooping, you need to install ProState ™ for peeing. Both apps require a separate account and two-factor authentication (stool and urine sample) to set up.

Other tips:

Don’t worry about getting picture perfect loaves with nice ears etc, just focus on incrementally improving the dough according to your specific circumstances.

Choice of flour, ambient temperature, scheduling when to bake and when to feed the starter are more important than shaping technique and your oven.

Always keep a log of what you’ve been doing so you can reference specific variables.

Try to lower the hydration at first so you can have an easier time working with the dough and shaping the loaf, then gradually increase hydration until you get the result you want.

Sometimes flour from the same brand has more or less water content and you need to adjust to that.

Home baking is ‘easy’ if you have a good dough, just pop that shit in a cast iron dutch oven (to create a steamy environment) and uncover after 15-20 minutes to finish baking

I’m doing the whole dough at once, it’s around 6 kg and can get kinda tricky to get even folds, so maybe dividing it into two after the initial mixing would help, good shout

You’re not wrong, Paulie, these goombas don’t appreciate a proper working man’s bread. We’re also doing a basic focaccia to provide some variety, but it’s baked in loaf tins so they get way too crispy. Trying to convince them to do it properly but I’m not about to take on even more tasks

You’re thinking when the cold ferment is done and I’m ready to bake? Right now I take it out and let it sit at room temp for around an hour in the morning, but I could try letting them rise using the proofing function on the oven.

Any advice would be great if he has the time

straight up reading it… And by it, i mean… my peanurs…

Fuck, Adams might as well announce that a movie documentary will be released in the coming months.

It’ll be filmed entirely in Istanbul, of course.

Macron pictured with his two large adult sons, adopted when he got married to a 200 year old woman.

“My noble lord, our town is besieged by terrible barbarians, please send aid!”

Medieval CEO pulls out an abacus, starts consulting a table of numbers.

'Regrettably, this particular type of invasion is not covered under your serfdom plan. Please have a nice day!"

I would go home, turn on the news, see that the guy shot in front of me was a CEO and then the trauma would simply evaporate out of my brain.

Soldiers fighting in just wars have markedly lower rates of PTSD, if I remember correctly.