I'm currently using phone data so I shall be brief.
The internet is down where I am and I'm also making bread so going fully mobile is not an option. It might be an option on another day. Time will tell.
Normal services will resume as soon as the connection does. I'm keeping an eye on it and we've complained to out alleged provider about it. Much fun not being had by anyone TBH.
I did NOT need this. At all.
Doing what I can with what I've got, and that is not much.
I have a loaf proofing while the oven preheats. I have things set up to bake, including a timer to make sure all goes relatively well.
I have offerings to make and tweaks to engage in with respect to my leisure time on the new OS.
Last time that was fixed, I lost half my tabs.
In a few short minutes, I go collect my Beloved. All is well and we shall share time once more. Offerings will happen at their own
Read more »I will likely be up until past 10PM today. Most of that is because juggling dough and proofing my chia sourdough.
I'll be seeing how well the new scales go tomorrow.
I know from testing that one of them displays a weight up to two grams above the other. But at least they're consistent. I can manage once I figure out where the finessing lies.
It's honestly better than having a different weight every time I put the same thing on the
Read more »I just finished the furforal for today. Stretchies, foot torture, and an appointment at the optometrist. Followed by fetching some meds and then retreating home.
Because new glasses cost four figures. Ooof.
The good news is that I can pay them off at our own speed. Starting tomorrow. By the time they're made, we should have enough to pay the rest.
[Should is not is, and I quietly fret]
I have a loaf proofing in the incubator and the ovens preheating. If
Read more »I am almost out of my artisinal bread. I also have an appointment tomorrow. It takes absolute hours to do bread. But I am also about due to run out of bread.
I think I can wrangle stage one - mixing and proofing - today? I might have to spend two days baking later on.
Time, as always, will tell.
I'll figure it all out in the end. If I start the starter incubating close to now it won't be ready for
Read more »Me and my chronic difficulty with instructions are trying to install Stencyl and Minecraft in Linux. My Beloved is rescheduling so that shared time between myself and Adorable is a bit more fair.
To that end, my Patreon posts will likely be happening on Monday or the weekend. I'll see which is more amenable.
I'll pop an announcement up on my Patreon this morning.
I have one loaf in the incubator, and the other is stowed in the little fridge. I'm finishing
Read more »I have found some knee sleeves. They were in Rebel Allsports (not sponsored) and promise to not roast my patellas when they're in situ.
My knees are warm, but not uncomfortably warm, and I needed my knee bracers today. Because today's a day for bread.
I have Wilson in the incubator, the flour weighed out, and the chia soaking in the water. In less than four hours, I autolyse and commence the rest of the nonsense. Knead-hour-knead until I get to the
Read more »Just finished a telehealth call with my shrink. I have Wilson, my wholemeal Starter, incubating. They have a little over an hour remaining before the autolysing begins.
I'm pretty sure the amount of ice is responsible for my bread turning into sod loaves. So I'm back to being particular about the ice I use. It could also be that Wilson was still waking up last time and they'll be on full form sometime real soon now.
Hopefully, this time around.
I'll be
Read more »I awoke to the smell of smoke. Turns out Mayhem had forgotten chicken bites in the oven until they became charcoal briquettes. Whoops. I can't critique too much because I forgot to set off the timer to warm up my bread properly.
I also just now realised that I forgot to set it in the tins for the final proof BRB.
Okay. Now that the dough's been properly bothered, I've reset the timer. It's not going to do any harm to heat
Read more »It's payday tomorrow, I had to buy fuel, I have five dollarydoos left in my account and the oven preheating for the baking.
I need coffee, cream, flour, chia [I'm out at last], salt, and sundry other fixings.
I might take Miss Chaos out shopping with me when we can afford such an excursion. It's a long and complicated trip I have queued up to take most of my moneys.
Costco, Golden Circle Factory Outlet, the meat market, Aldi, and finally Woolies
Read more »Finally home, I have acquired a second kitchen scale and dividing the dough was a lot easier than my last efforts.
And just in time! The last quarter of my last loaf has dwindled to a hub end somehow. "Somehow" 9_9 [It was Miss Chaos]
So my PLN is thusly:
I've measured out everything but my Starter, which is currently incubating in preparation for the autolyse. I have 170g of chia soaking in 800g of water for the duration.
I know the traditional wire tool for bread [Called a "Dough Whisk" I have just now learned] is not good for mixing flour and soaked chia because the sticky goop just gets stuck in the cracks and it's nigh impossible to shift. I shall try "chopping in" the flour and mix with the
Read more »Woke up close to 3AM, did my stretchies, and prepped for bread.
My starter (Ingrid) looked already fully grown so I gave them a quarter cup of plain flour and a bit of water to pep them up while they're in the incubator.
This time, I weighed the chia [171g makes a cup. I might make it an even 170 next time because the math is simpler] and subtracted that from the 1kg total flour weight. I weighed out 780g of water
Read more »It's a feast day, and I'm already into the stroopwafels. I have bread planned for today and keeping my hair dye off of my hands is a S-T-R-U-G-G-L-E.
Fortunately, I have a back scratcher that is taking care of all the head-related itchies.
And whilst my bread-in-progress is proofing and rising and being Bothered... I shall be sharing The Legend of Vox Machina with my Beloved.
MUA-HAHAHAHAA...
...and attempting to eat my own weight in sugar...
So have a story. I had
Read more »Plague news: Two new cases, one of each. Forty-three total active cases, twenty seven are in hospital and one's in the ICU.
My wholemeal bread's been in the fridge all night and is now both thawing and rising in the bread incubator. I've been working with Ingrid, this week. Which is kind of fun because Beloved has taken a little dab of Ingrid to grow their starter.
We're calling it "Ingrid Secundis" aka Is-ie. When we're not calling it "the pet".
Today's
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