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Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by tetraca »

maxerickson wrote: post #87
jason_zig wrote: post #66

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Have you tried toasting it when you take it out of the freezer?

Toast isn't fresh bread. (I like both, they aren't the same thing)

You don't toast it _all the way_. Heat it up a modest amount, just enough for the ice crystals to melt, and it will spring to life as if it were a practically fresh slice of bread (until it is freezer burnt, at which point it will be a little bad).

The method I was taught was to wrap the slice of bread in a paper towel and microwave for 5-10 seconds.

Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by LukeBMM »

HWR_14 wrote: post #131
Freak_NL wrote: post #58

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I wouldn't consider myself a wine snob, but I'm not really looking forward to being served a nice Pinot Grigio from Trentino (DOC) with cubes of frozen Liebfraumilch. The logistics of keeping matching iced versions of wine sound overwhelmingly complex.

If you only buy one type of white wine, boom solved.

The only problem in this scenario is being the type of person who always drinks the same wine.

Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by pessimizer »

treeman79 wrote: post #107
mirker wrote: post #101

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There is “artisan” bread, made by hand, which is the round kind. Then there is “sandwich bread”, which is the rectangular kind. Ingredients: Artisan bread is usually just flour, water, salt, yeast (sourdough is just flour and water, too). Sandwich bread can include milk or other fats to make it softer and is more of a “cake”. In industrial settings, there are a lot of preservatives included in the sandwich bread. Mix…

Started baking bread with kids recently. They love it. But next day the leftover bread is stale. I explained that it isn’t full of preservatives. After a moment, they look at me and ask where we can get some.

There are tactics other than preservatives to make bread last, such as covering it, freezing it, and tangzhong: https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/blog/2018/03/26/introductio...

I tend to bake two loaves (always with tangzhong if the particular recipe can tolerate it), wrap both, immediately freeze one, and the other one lasts somewhere short of a week.

Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by bmmayer1 »

LegitShady wrote: post #146
bmmayer1 wrote: post #16

Mel Brooks joke: a man in a deli notices that there's nothing but salt on every shelf. He asks the shopkeeper if he sells a lot of salt. The shopkeeper says "If I sell a bag of salt a week I'm lucky. But the guy who sells me salt, boy, can he sell salt!" This is a great idea that "doesn't scale" and could one day be a $1B business. Well done!

I don't really understand how this could ever be a $1b business, or how that relates to the salt joke.

Could be...think about this: a niche search engine that tells you which individual products are in stock, and where they are, could be very valuable indeed. How many times have you thought, "I need to buy an X right now, but I don't know which store(s) carry it?"

Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by dubcanada »

thruway516 wrote: post #143
dubcanada wrote: post #130

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He sucks at selling, however the guy who he buys the salt from is excellent at selling. Therefore capable of getting the shop owner to buy excessive amounts of salt.

Go on ... How does this relate to websites for half loaves of bread?

I have no idea... I am just answering the question.

Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by Spivak »

treeman79 wrote: post #107
mirker wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is “artisan” bread, made by hand, which is the round kind. Then there is “sandwich bread”, which is the rectangular kind. Ingredients: Artisan bread is usually just flour, water, salt, yeast (sourdough is just flour and water, too). Sandwich bread can include milk or other fats to make it softer and is more of a “cake”. In industrial settings, there are a lot of preservatives included in the sandwich bread. Mix…

Started baking bread with kids recently. They love it. But next day the leftover bread is stale. I explained that it isn’t full of preservatives. After a moment, they look at me and ask where we can get some.

This is one of the funniest things when introducing people to some of the ingredients and methods used in commercial food production -- stuff like Xanthan gum as a thickener, soy lechtin as an emulsifier, or calcium propanate as a preservative. Once people know what they do and how it works they stop being "scary chemicals" corporations are putting in our food. I think it's a branding issue, sodium bicarbonate is a scary chemical but baking soda is a household ingredient, MSG is super scary but seaweed salt sounds delicious.

Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by rglullis »

recursive wrote: post #154
rglullis wrote: post #88

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You joke, but that's exactly what domain names are.

Domain names come from central authorities. Transfers are reported to the registrar.

Regardless, they are non-fungible tokens with expiration date.

But if you really want to be extra pedantic: the Ethereum Name System is a domain system running on the blockchain, and each domain is a NFT with an expiration date.

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