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Ok; I guess you can fork with a whisk ... you can't really whisk with a fork!
You can sometimes whisk with a fork but it's a lot of work.
It’s a bit like cutting with a spoon.
Organizing a Group Buy of Flour
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I've become a sourdough bread baker over the past three weeks, going from producing constructionnmaterials (dense bricks) to some of the best bread I've ever had. Realized yeaast wasn't to be had for love or mone: https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/103845407941910287 Starter recipe: https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/sourdough-starter-re... Took about 6 days to get going. 3rd loaf was a winner. Feedback from ho…
Great advice thank you. Where are you finding the spelt and whole wheat?
Very intermittantly.
Spelt was a buy where other flours were cleared out at a natural food store. Last whole wheat was a half-kilo bag. I'll hit numerous stores, early in the day. Buy what's available though AP / whole wheat / specialty by preference.
Gourmet / natural food stores have tended to better selections. Ethnic food aisles often have flour where main selection is out, or specialty flours regardless.
Whole grains are also available. I've contemplated buying a mill.
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Great advice thank you. Where are you finding the spelt and whole wheat?
Very intermittantly. Spelt was a buy where other flours were cleared out at a natural food store. Last whole wheat was a half-kilo bag. I'll hit numerous stores, early in the day. Buy what's available though AP / whole wheat / specialty by preference. Gourmet / natural food stores have tended to better selections. Ethnic food aisles often have flour where main selection is out, or specialty flours regardless. Whole g…
As in a business or the machinery to use at home?
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#165There used to be a startup "Mercado" in the dot com days where consumers could form buyer's groups. It worked well for a while until the downturn.
I was just thinking why doesn't this exist!
Sadly, so many things we all wish existed already exist and yet we just dont know about it. It is a big challenge for small tech businesses / websites -- they can offer desperately needed services and yet users only have so much attention budget to learn about all the services out there.
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Very intermittantly. Spelt was a buy where other flours were cleared out at a natural food store. Last whole wheat was a half-kilo bag. I'll hit numerous stores, early in the day. Buy what's available though AP / whole wheat / specialty by preference. Gourmet / natural food stores have tended to better selections. Ethnic food aisles often have flour where main selection is out, or specialty flours regardless. Whole g…
As in a business or the machinery to use at home?
Home.
Ironically, the KitchenAid I'd always coveted has proved all but wholly unnecessary for breadmaking, though the milling attachmnent is among the options available.
And, FWIW, I'm experimenting broadly with grains and augmentations.
Today's batch was 1000g flour (50% AP, 25% spelt, 20% WW (last of the bag), 5% einkorn), 25g salt, 80% hydration, 200g walnut pieces, 100g mixed whole spelt & eincorn grains (boiled. in salted water). OMFGood.
I've started a straight bleached white flour batch, basically to see what the worst possible flour might be.
Basically: experiment, see what happens.
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Around fifty people, each buying 2 bag of food, is all that's needed to empty an average load of a 40 feet truck. > Wait, they didn't place restrictions on how many items individual customers could buy? Barely did, and even when it was enforced, this didn't prevent panickers reliably rushing to supermarket all and every time the truck arrived to buy full bag of food, or two. People were literally running after that t…
> this didn't prevent panickers reliably rushing to supermarket all and every time the truck arrived to buy full bag of food Please don't characterize buying a bag (or two) of food as panicking. That is less than an ordinary amount of shopping at a time for me during times when there isn't a public health order to avoid going out. And I'm not shopping for half as many people as some people are. Characterizing the rea…
2 full bags of food will reliably last me 2 weeks.
Even for a family of 4, this should last at least 3-4 days of comfortable living.
Those people there were buying that much food daily. I do remember their faces.
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#168Based in Paris, France - even prior to the lockdown, bakeries sold baking-related supplies if you knew how to ask (flour, yeast, pre-made dough at various stages, etc.). But now they sell it like a main product; even today when I went to buy some bread at one of my local shops, they had sacks of flour set up in the storefront and showcases.
I had no idea! TY!
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This is kind of the point behind drop.com, no?
Drop has been transitioning away from group buys for sometime now. Since their re-branding their strategy appears more reminiscent of private labeling. Most products have Drop / Massdrop in the name now. The most recent two actual (keyboard) group buys that I participated in have been really poorly handled. One is still delayed and has not shipped (order placed 561 days ago). The other shipped broken (to everyone in…
> I had to manually ISP flash a bootloader.
I read about that problem with the Tokyo60 v3. Seems like a big problem with quality control, that should have been fixed by sending a new, working versions of the PCB to all customers.
I'm currently waiting on some Aqua Zilents which are delayed thanks to the current pandemic. I understand the delay, but they waited until the posted ship date (April 10th) to inform customers that it's going to be late. That rubbed me the wrong way for sure.
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As in a business or the machinery to use at home?
Home. Ironically, the KitchenAid I'd always coveted has proved all but wholly unnecessary for breadmaking, though the milling attachmnent is among the options available. And, FWIW, I'm experimenting broadly with grains and augmentations. Today's batch was 1000g flour (50% AP, 25% spelt, 20% WW (last of the bag), 5% einkorn), 25g salt, 80% hydration, 200g walnut pieces, 100g mixed whole spelt & eincorn grains (boiled.…
Sounds great. We just broke out our kitchen aid which had sat dormant next to the bread machine for years. I didn’t know it had a mill attachment but I guess I’m not surprised.