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Daily coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - April 25
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
The Italian model who keeps testing positive to coronavirus, two months after diagnosis
Sometimes life imitates satire. Here's a month-old article from The Onion: Man Just Buying One Of Every Cleaning Product In Case Trump Announces It’s Coronavirus Cure
So far my home-made sourdough starter (subsequently named Esteban) has yielded two nights of fabulous margherita pizzas, cast iron cooked on the underside for 5 minutes, then in the oven at MAX for another 5 minutes. It's really incredible how less important toppings on a pizza become when the focus shifts to the pizza base itself, all I've been adding is a homemade marinara sauce, some mozzarella, and basil to finish (and of course salt!).
Today I'm backing up my sourdough to Amazon S3 (Sourdough Storage Service), a.k.a. dehydrating half of it for a week on a sheet-lined baking tray, which will go into storage in a jar if I ever forget to feed my starter or become unable to.
Tomorrow I'm beginning the process of cooking sourdough brioche hot cross buns following this recipe, which also lets me experiment with a new container of Heilala vanilla paste which arrived just a few days ago.
Additionally, my Fellow Stagg EKG coffee kettle arrived—having precision control over temperature for optimum blooming and brewing is going to be a game changer to my coffee habits, and subsequently, my dev habits.
I'm doing my best to take my kitchen, food, and beverage skills from like a B/B- to like an A-, hopefully one day maybe an A, as this post demonstrates :P.
This comment made me chortle a few times throughout (S3 lol). I haven't heard of people naming their sourdough starter before, but people naming their kombucha SCOBY seems to be surprisingly common from what I have seen. I love it; Anthropomorphized bacterial/fungal goo! :P
Tesla Is Calling Some California Plant Workers Back Next Week:
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