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I baked a pie every day for a year

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Post by malfist »

dessimus wrote: post #131
malfist wrote: post #99

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Sourdough is fantastic, I have two loaves finishing their overnight chill in my fridge right now, will bake them after dinner. I was baking sourdough since before the pandemic, and will continue baking in the future. It's a bit of work, but it's not too much work and the results are pretty damn fantastic. Focaccia though, if I baked that regularly I'd have to go back on a GLP-1. Focaccia taught me to read the seals o…

>Focaccia taught me to read the seals on olive oil in the supermarket and actually pick the right one for the break. Come on, you can't just drop that morsel without telling us what we should be looking for in the right olive oil for focaccia.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YCt2txu11d4

Great video that talks about selecting the olive oil for your use case and which seals aren't just self granted. I personally have been using colavita. Its fantastic.

I hate it but it's taught me that freshness actually matters. I bought some for focaccia and it was amazing. Saved it in the pantry for special occasions. Went back six months later and it had zero flavor. Just tasted like generic oil. Flat.

It ruined me.

Also if you're an engineer and like cooking, check out that guy's YouTube channel, He's very analytical in explaining cooking

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Post by mmmBacon »

incanus77 wrote: post #48

Pie is such a gift. My wife died nearly ten years ago and soon afterwards, I took up pie baking, which is something that she loved to do (I just loved to eat it — since childhood I've had a birthday pie instead of cake). I had all the stuff, after all. I got good at it and love to share them with friends at gatherings, or even just give them away entirely. Right before COVID, I did a Friday Pie Day thing where I gift…

Totally. I started baking pies because it was a tradition in my family and my wife can’t cook. To make sure my kids had the family food tradition I learned to bake. Once you get a system down, like anything else, it’s not that hard. Plus pie filling has time to bloom if you make it day before. Pie dough can be made ahead and freezes well. Individually these things aren’t hard or time consuming.

I started making my own simple bread and now I can’t eat store bought bread. Just takes like sawdust to me. It’s not really all that hard. Add a little rosemary and some olive oil and it’s delicious. No need to fuss over sourdough (over rated in my opinion). Over time you learn how ingredients work and what ratios work. So becomes easier and easier. I can throw together amazing corn bread and be eating it a little more than half hour later.

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Post by wileydragonfly »

muststopmyths wrote: post #137
dmd wrote: post #134

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I can't figure out what "seals" or "break" mean in this sentence. What am I missing here?

they possibly meant nutrition label and bread

They are possibly capable of answering the question themselves.

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Post by reactordev »

raddan wrote: post #122
reactordev wrote: post #45

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I would bake it on a pizza stone to ensure an even bake. Has nobody here ever done this? It comes out perfectly cooked.

You cook a spherical pie on a pizza stone? Do tell.

I cook a circular pie on a pizza stone.

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Post by DiggyJohnson »

AngryData wrote: post #103
CrazyStat wrote: post #12

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A friend of mine tries to bake a spherical pie for pi day (March 14) each year, with varying approaches (and levels of success).

There are some old 18th century pies they cooked in boiling water inside a bag which could be quite spherical. Townsends on youtube has some videos on it.

Isn’t that essentially a stuffed pudding? Or do some use pie dough

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Post by 14 »

Christmas 2013 my mom gave me a nice stand mixer. She knew I like to cook and bake and owned a bread maker but she knew I always felt bread makers were good but just fell short or being great. This gift also changed my life forever.

Days later on New Years I decided my resolution would be to not buy bread for an entire year and make it all myself. Also I was a father or 3 and funds tight back then so buying bread for school lunches all the time really added up.

So I started making bread and did not buy any for months. Slowly it became better and slowly I started making other items like pizza dough and bagels and cinnamon buns. I got to a point where I no longer needed to measure and could just free pour ingredients and my baking was really good.

Then soon into 2014 I decided to buy a huge stock pile of flour and several other ingredients from Costco so had like 200lbs of flour and lots of oil and pasta sauce and chicken and suddenly work laid half of us off until things picked up. Having all those ingredients saved me and my kids. Never did they go hungry. We ate lots of pizza and always had bread and bagels and if I had to buy it already made there is no way I would have made it.

I did not achieve my resolution on July 14 2024 me and my wife split up suddenly after some shenanigans on her end and I was suddenly the primary care giver for 3 kids and the stress was too much and I did not have it in me to continue making bread but kept strong for my kids and never let on my struggles.

Lastly even though I did not achieve my resolution I did make it almost 7 full month's making bread and I never lost it. I still make bread but my biggest hit is homemade pizza. My kids struggle to eat store bought stuff as my home made is just so much better. If anyone would like some simple pointers on how to make amazing pizza dough comment and I would be happy to give a few quick tips.

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Post by whackernews »

stephen_cagle wrote: post #54

Not to take anything from any other activity that someone embraces, but I imagine that for the majority of people in the developed world, taking a 1 hour walk every day would be the most "life changing" thing you could do.

Or just even think or look out of the window I feel like would do the world some good. Maybe I’m being negative I really don’t know at this point.

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Post by malfist »

mr_mitm wrote: post #128
dinkleberg wrote: post #116

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I do find it kind of wild how intimidating most people I know find baking. Get a food scale and follow the directions and you're good to go and will have something respectable and delicious. As with anything, you can dive deep and go extreme with it. But baking delicious food is not rocket science.

Funny you'd say that. Other people say cooking is art, while baking is a science. No room for errors.

Baking bread is fun because its not science. It had guidelines but thats it
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