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Incredible lift! What tool do you use to score your breads?
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bLoebs wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:51 am Incredible lift! What tool do you use to score your breads?
Many thanks. I use a version of the UFO I bought on Amazon


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mauichef wrote: Sun Mar 21, 2021 6:20 pm Sourday Sunday bake!

50/50 Wholewheat Sourdough Boule!

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That really is a very very special boule Ray!! Truly tremendous bake!! Would love to see the money shot? I bet it has a lovely mix of air pockets inside. How was the taste?
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Mahalo mate!
Sorry for the poor shot...we almost finished it!
One big bugger but otherwise some nice pockets.

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Today was baguette day.
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Bensbites wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 7:33 pm Today was baguette day.
Bread and knife look great Ben!
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Another loaf out of the oven. Don't know how I'm not as big as a house?

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mauichef wrote: Tue Mar 23, 2021 5:07 pm Another loaf out of the oven. Don't know how I'm not as big as a house?
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Sunday bakeday!
50/50 Wholewheat Sourdough Boule!

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Mid week boule!

Bark, bark!

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Here's an idea for you bakers, pandesal, the everyday rolls of the Philippines.
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Generally speaking, I don't eat bananas and apparently, neither do the people in my house who continue to request them from the grocery store. But I just can't let anything go to waste, so I used 6 of the 9 rotting bananas on the counter to make a double-batch of banana bread, riffing on a recipe in Joy of Cooking. One was a plain-Jane version, the other had chocolate chips and roasted pecans . . .

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ronnie_suburban wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 1:18 pm Generally speaking, I don't eat bananas and apparently, neither do the people in my house who continue to request them from the grocery store. But I just can't let anything go to waste, so I used 6 of the 9 rotting bananas on the counter to make a double-batch of banana bread, riffing on a recipe in Joy of Cooking. One was a plain-Jane version, the other had chocolate chips and roasted pecans . . .

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Banana Bread w/ Chocolate Chips, Roasted Pecans & Kohetsu 1K6 Bread Knife, 240mm
Well, bananas are only edible for about a day and a half. Before that, they are too green (too tart, or something), and after that, they are too ripe (make me gag trying to eat them). Kinda why I pretty much stopped buying them, unless I plan on making banana bread (which I do like). So, I understand your family's dilemma.
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XexoX wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 2:15 pm Well, bananas are only edible for about a day and a half. Before that, they are too green (too tart, or something), and after that, they are too ripe (make me gag trying to eat them). Kinda why I pretty much stopped buying them, unless I plan on making banana bread (which I do like). So, I understand your family's dilemma.
Nah, I think it was a set-up. They requested the bananas with zero intention of ever eating them. Knowing that I am completely incapable of throwing anything away, they correctly figured their scheme would lead to banana bread, which it did. I stepped right into it, too! :lol:
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Hopefully your family chooses to use their superior manipulative skills on the side of good instead of evil. If not we are all in trouble. :D
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You can blame Mr. Suburban for my being here. :lol:
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Here’s a celebration of fruit by a snickerdoodle angel food cake, filled with peaches and cream, topped with fresh berries and coulis. Love summertime!
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First batch of cookies with my new stove.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookies
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ronnie_suburban wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 2:22 pm
XexoX wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 2:15 pm Well, bananas are only edible for about a day and a half. Before that, they are too green (too tart, or something), and after that, they are too ripe (make me gag trying to eat them). Kinda why I pretty much stopped buying them, unless I plan on making banana bread (which I do like). So, I understand your family's dilemma.
Nah, I think it was a set-up. They requested the bananas with zero intention of ever eating them. Knowing that I am completely incapable of throwing anything away, they correctly figured their scheme would lead to banana bread, which it did. I stepped right into it, too! :lol:
Late, I know, but next time make a banana cream pie! Or, isn't there something called Bananas Foster? Banana Split?
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XexoX wrote: Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:49 pm
ronnie_suburban wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 2:22 pm
XexoX wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 2:15 pm Well, bananas are only edible for about a day and a half. Before that, they are too green (too tart, or something), and after that, they are too ripe (make me gag trying to eat them). Kinda why I pretty much stopped buying them, unless I plan on making banana bread (which I do like). So, I understand your family's dilemma.
Nah, I think it was a set-up. They requested the bananas with zero intention of ever eating them. Knowing that I am completely incapable of throwing anything away, they correctly figured their scheme would lead to banana bread, which it did. I stepped right into it, too! :lol:
Late, I know, but next time make a banana cream pie! Or, isn't there something called Bananas Foster? Banana Split?
Actually pretty timely because my son just queried me on banana bread the other day and baked his first loaf, so I've been thinking about this. I took a pic of the recipe in my edition of Joy Of Cooking and texted it to him. Even though he's a novice, the recipe is very straightforward and he did well with it. Other than explaining to him what shortening was -- not something we typically keep in the house -- he needed no additional guidance. :lol:

I don't know about BCP but in my limited experience, older, black-skinned bananas would not be the best thing for Foster or a Split. In those applications you ideally want ripe, but firm, unblemished bananas. Otoh, in banana bread, the over-ripeness of the bananas helps express the essential oil from the fruit, making the final product more aromatic and imo, better.
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