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This is one of my retirement dreams. Not baklava, but take a food item that I cherish (I won't divulge which one!), and execute on it as well as I can possibly imagine, vertically integrating as much of the inputs as possible. I love his minimal waste approach with the auxiliary soap output. Basically, the Unix philosophy applied to cuisine.
Please make the menu a manpage
> "Baklava is made by thinning the dough to a fine micro-degree, and by putting 10 or 11 layers on top of each other by hand," says Güllü. It is not a process conducive to automation. Actually, that sounds incredibly conducive to automation... A quick search, shows people are already selling machines to do it.
Yes, and that's how you ruin things
Here in Greece (actually central Greece) houses traditionally make Baklava for the Christmas - new years eve period. It is considered a "holiday" treat. Most people use almonds to fill it and ready-made pie-sheets (from the supermarket, these are common in Greece because people use them to make pies). It's not difficult to make but, because it needs a lot of almonds it has very expensive, that's why it's not usual to…
The big problem with baklava is that it turns into a blob of solid glop unless you pay strict attention.
Everything has to be kept very "light". But, when you do, everything is on the verge of falling apart. It will not transport very far or last very long.