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Comment on Breadmaker update: one year in! in ~food
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Comment on Breadmaker update: one year in! in ~food
paris Link ParentSeitan is such a nothing effort though, I’m surprised the bread maker is even necessary. That being said, I’m probably missing something so I’ll look up this method, thanks!Seitan is such a nothing effort though, I’m surprised the bread maker is even necessary. That being said, I’m probably missing something so I’ll look up this method, thanks!
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Comment on Breadmaker update: one year in! in ~food
paris (edited )Link ParentThat’s my next step, but finding a good kitchen scale has been a bit of a difficulty. I’ve bought two so far, and one doesn’t tare despite having a tare button and the other eats batteries like...That’s my next step, but finding a good kitchen scale has been a bit of a difficulty. I’ve bought two so far, and one doesn’t tare despite having a tare button and the other eats batteries like crazy. Thanks for the encouragement to get back on the search!
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Comment on Breadmaker update: one year in! in ~food
paris Link Parentkottke was going on about focaccia recently; i too had a “how hard can it be?” moment that went really well, almost too well. as i told my girlfriend once, the best-and-worst information to learn...kottke was going on about focaccia recently; i too had a “how hard can it be?” moment that went really well, almost too well. as i told my girlfriend once, the best-and-worst information to learn is how easy it is to make treats: cinnamon rolls, babka, donuts, focaccia…
i think my standard pizza is about the same recipe as yours, though i do have a ceramic pizza thing (it’s not a stone if it’s not stone, yeah?) which is nice if only for keeping a consistent shape. my kitchen is tiny, so no fancies for me (the bread maker is big enough that it has to live in another room entirely).
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Comment on Breadmaker update: one year in! in ~food
paris Link Parentmine also has a jam setting, with its own little paddle. i have yet to try it. i wonder if it can be used to make something like lemon curds…mine also has a jam setting, with its own little paddle. i have yet to try it. i wonder if it can be used to make something like lemon curds…
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Comment on Breadmaker update: one year in! in ~food
paris Link Parentthank you! i am often the same when it comes to reading things out of my usual ballpark, and i’m glad you got something out of it. i was impressed honestly with how much we were spending/saving. i...thank you! i am often the same when it comes to reading things out of my usual ballpark, and i’m glad you got something out of it. i was impressed honestly with how much we were spending/saving. i didn’t expect it to be so drastic.
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Comment on Breadmaker update: one year in! in ~food
paris Link Parentno worries, i am here for conversation. we did try this, but got rid of the microwave when it became clear neither of us were using it except to heat bread. as for a toaster… i actually don’t like...no worries, i am here for conversation. we did try this, but got rid of the microwave when it became clear neither of us were using it except to heat bread. as for a toaster… i actually don’t like toast. 🫢
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Breadmaker update: one year in!
A little less than a year ago, I asked for your recommendations on bread maker tips, tricks, and recipes, and thought I’d give a small update. The bread maker I bought is functionally the Breville...
A little less than a year ago, I asked for your recommendations on bread maker tips, tricks, and recipes, and thought I’d give a small update.
The bread maker I bought is functionally the Breville Custom Loaf, rebranded for the local market (“Tramontina by Breville”). I paid R$3069 for it. It was on sale: the same machine now sells for anywhere between R$2991 to R$3690. (These equate to about 565USD then and 594USD to 732USD now, considering contemporaneous exchange rates.)
My +/- weekly recipe eventually settled upon via much trial and many errors comes from an amalgamation of various sources, by now mostly lost. In the summer, I have to halve the recipe and make bread twice as often, or the maresia / damp sea air makes it mould before we can eat the whole thing!
I have also not tried to make anything but this exact bread since I started. My dreams of raisin buns are as of yet unrealised. Next year for the end of the year, I plan to make panettone in it, as we don’t plan to travel.
My unhalved recipe is:
- 450ml water (filtered, cool)
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 4 cups 100% whole wheat / integral flour
- >1 tsp demerara sugar
- <1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp (freezer stored, instant dry) yeast
- ~3/4 cup walnuts, in pieces, raw, unsalted, to fill the “automatic” dispenser on the machine (sometimes the bulk goods shop by me is out of nuts. the bread is better with nuts, but fine without.)
Cost wise, this breaks down to:
- 500mL olive oil : R$25 (0,75/loaf)
- 1kg flour : R$7 (3,17/loaf)
- 1kg sugar : R$10 (0,05/loaf)
- 1kg salt : R$4 (0,02/loaf)
- 100g walnuts : R$10 (12,50/loaf)
I didn’t include the yeast in the breakdown because I have yet to buy any. The 1kg package of yeast I purchased four years ago to make pizza and kept in the freezer since is still going strong. At present, a kilo of yeast costs ~R$23.
Without nuts, my cost per loaf is R$3,99, while with nuts, it’s R$16,49. My local supermarket sells a (frankly inferior) and much smaller (350g) “100% whole wheat” loaf for R$25.
Having kept incomplete records, I believe for most of the year we have made a loaf about every five days: let’s pretend means over the past year, I’ve made 70 loaves at about a 50/50 split of nuts or no-nuts, so let’s put my total cost of making bread as R$716,80. If we buy bread, it’s an every-other-day occurance, so R$4562,50 spent on bread in a year. Adding the cost of the bread maker to the mix, if these were real figures, we would have saved R$776,70 so far, just in this year alone.
And it has served us well, with some slight oddities!
The first is based on the machine: never once in the usage of the machine has the “automatic” dispenser of nuts automatically added the nuts at the proper stage. I have read the documentation, and I can find no explanation. At present, if I want nuts added, I have to remain at home when the maker is going, as it screams something awful (buzzer) when it’s “going to” add the nuts, and then I run along and poke open the dispenser door with my finger until the latch opens and the nuts dispense into the awaiting dough. If I know I won’t be home, I don’t add nuts, because otherwise, I will come home to a nice loaf of bread and a small dispenser of lightly warmed nuts. (Heh.)
The second is that my recipe is not as good when I have to halve it! In the damp season, I had to throw away a few half-loaves, as mold loves my poor little bread, and the bread does not survive well in the fridge. But splitting the recipe (and altering the settings on the bread maker to reflect, which is itself an imprecise science) has yet to lead to a smaller version of my usual recipe: what comes out is a biscotti-shaped, flat, dense, but still edible loaf. I’m still figuring it out!
All in all, thanks to everyone who encouraged me in the previous thread, and let this be encouragement to anyone else on the fence to try out a breadmaker!
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Comment on Do we want to stop all crime? in ~society
paris Link ParentI agree actually, which is why I brought up the ritual clown. Transgression is important. it also occurs to me that one of the ways that children (and people in society in general) come to...I agree actually, which is why I brought up the ritual clown. Transgression is important. it also occurs to me that one of the ways that children (and people in society in general) come to understand what the limits of that society are is by breaking smaller, less important rules. if we treat all crime as an immediate disappearance (or however this is to be dealt with) we risk enforcing hard boundaries on what is (and i think should be) a grey area.
hold on, also to deal with situational crime? is breaking into a burning building to save a kitten a crime, because you’re breaking into someone else else’s property? so on.
edit: this is a fun philosophical convo. thanks for bringing it to us!
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Comment on Do we want to stop all crime? in ~society
paris LinkIt all comes down to what crime is. Transgression is a part of the human experience: the prevalence of the Ritual Clown in human cultures across time and space speaks to that. (The wiki is very...It all comes down to what crime is. Transgression is a part of the human experience: the prevalence of the Ritual Clown in human cultures across time and space speaks to that. (The wiki is very lackluster: JStor has better explanations for a greater time-cost.)
There are places in which being gay is a crime, being trans is a crime, being poly in a crime, practicing miscegenation is (was?) a crime. I don’t really want to live in a world without these things.
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Comment on What are your personal crackpot conspiracy theories about the world right now? in ~talk
paris Link Parentit also seems an exercise in “how little bread will hoi polloi tolerate if we go full-in on the circus?”it also seems an exercise in “how little bread will hoi polloi tolerate if we go full-in on the circus?”
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Comment on Insomniathought: blocking people in social media can be a positive thing in ~tech
paris LinkI like your post and think you make a good point. Framing matters, and I have blocked people in the past bc I knew I wouldn’t be able to suffer through more of their takes without making the world...I like your post and think you make a good point. Framing matters, and I have blocked people in the past bc I knew I wouldn’t be able to suffer through more of their
harebrainedtakes without making the world a worse place for both of us. This is, under entry, a Me problem, and blocking makes it easier for me to keep my Me problem to myself.That being said, I’m always on the fence about blocking. I do wonder if the ease of blocking has made us less able to deal with conflict (which is not abuse). Obviously blocking is good for safety and privacy reasons which i need not expound upon, but by being able to flick away any and every annoyance, do we become weaker, less resilient, more echo-chambered?
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Comment on “60s lounge” and Laufey in ~music
paris Link ParentOoh, that’s a good point. I’ll look to Japan and this soundtrack. Thanks!Ooh, that’s a good point. I’ll look to Japan and this soundtrack. Thanks!
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Comment on “60s lounge” and Laufey in ~music
paris Link ParentLet’s agree to disagree. I grew up on our homegrown bossa nova, which doesn’t have the qualia this has at all. This feels very USian, very rooted in something more like Swing or Big Band even...Let’s agree to disagree. I grew up on our homegrown bossa nova, which doesn’t have the qualia this has at all. This feels very USian, very rooted in something more like Swing or Big Band even (especially with its complicated symphonic elements) with very little to do with the bossa nova of Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes.
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Comment on “60s lounge” and Laufey in ~music
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“60s lounge” and Laufey
I was really taken by the sound of Laufey’s Madwoman and am looking for the older music which inspired her. The internet, however, has not been helpful. Between citing “The Great American...
I was really taken by the sound of Laufey’s Madwoman and am looking for the older music which inspired her.
The internet, however, has not been helpful. Between citing “The Great American Soundbook”¹ as her inspiration, or declaring its “clearly” bossa nova², i’m really lost. One person said “60s lounge,” which seemed promising³ but searching that brings a ton of AI-generated slop-and-slop-byproducts.
Is there a better term for what she’s referencing? Specific artists? Specific regions even?
- which doesn’t sound the same to me at all
- which no the fuck it is not, i, a brazilian, say
- another person said “70s lounge”
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Comment on How are we all feeling about piracy these days? in ~movies
paris Link ParentNicotine is a mac only (i think) client for Soulseek. I personally use Nicotine instead, but functionally they are more or less identical!Nicotine is a mac only (i think) client for Soulseek. I personally use Nicotine instead, but functionally they are more or less identical!
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Comment on How are we all feeling about piracy these days? in ~movies
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Comment on How are we all feeling about piracy these days? in ~movies
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Comment on Am I German or autistic? in ~health.mental
paris Link ParentSame here. (I was just complaining about Espinoza last night to my partner, using Wittgenstein as an example of what philosophy could/should/would be, so I am somewhat tickled to be lumped in with...Same here. (I was just complaining about Espinoza last night to my partner, using Wittgenstein as an example of what philosophy could/should/would be, so I am somewhat tickled to be lumped in with him and his irritation at “the gap between how things are and how they ought to be.”)
Ha! You may be surprised to know we 🇧🇷 use the comma for the decimals, g/kg in general, but! all our recipes here use cups (xĂcaras), teaspoons (colher de chá), and tablespoons (colher de sopa, literally soup spoon)!
…though we also use mL now and again for liquids, usually water.