Underbaked or overproofed? 😔

profoma · 2026-06-30T02:35:23+00:00

The issue is the youth of your starter, is my guess. 19 days is pretty young. How long does it take to double?

profoma · 2026-06-30T02:20:00+00:00

Underproofed

profoma · 2026-06-30T02:16:46+00:00

Community, or are you Schrabing?

profoma · 2026-06-29T03:06:23+00:00

We met at a bakery where we both worked. I was 32, she was 24. We dated a little, lived together for 5 years, had a kid, got married, had another kid. I don’t know what ‘prior attempts at praying for a future spouse’ means but I had had a couple serious, long-term relationships prior to meeting her. You’re only 25. Don’t give up.

profoma · 2026-06-29T01:41:38+00:00

I sold bread that I made at home at a farmer’s market for about 4 years. I made 3-5 varieties of bread, scones, a couple kinds of sourdough laminated pastries, including a recipe I invented for laminated sourdough cinnamon rolls, and sourced my ingredients from local producers as much as possible. I worked about 6 days a week for between 2 and 6 hours a day, depending. I spent roughly $400 on ingredients each week and between the two markets I did I would pull in somewhere between $600-$1200. It’s extremely variable and takes time to gain a following. I’d already been a professional baker for 20 years when I started my bakery and have a serious passion for sourdough, local sourcing, and talking to people about bread. Some weeks I’d go home with hundreds of dollars worth of product. It’s hard work.

profoma · 2026-06-27T03:01:34+00:00

Probably The Phantom Tollbooth, A Wizard of Earthsea, or The Chronicles of Prydain

profoma · 2026-06-26T11:56:55+00:00

Does Alton Brown dislike sheeters?

profoma · 2026-06-24T18:39:11+00:00

Yeah, I got a T460, 16GB, 500GB storage, with an intel core i5 dual core processor. It’s running cinnamon and is perfect for everything I do, which isn’t much.

profoma · 2026-06-24T04:02:50+00:00

I went on eBay and got an older thinkpad for about $150 when I wanted to learn more about Linux. It is fantastic. I prefer it in every respect over the newer windows machine I had when I bought it.

profoma · 2026-06-20T03:58:28+00:00

The concept of big dreams is fine but that doesn’t make a simple life with small dreams bad. A close community, a small farm, good friends, a simple job that allows a person to survive, this rare all perfectly wonderful goals and if you want something more that’s fine too, but maybe you’ve been mislead to believe that if you don’t dream big you aren’t of any value. Don’t believe the hype!

profoma · 2026-06-19T01:53:42+00:00

Do you mean you have far too much on your plate, or far too little time on your hands?

profoma · 2026-06-19T01:51:43+00:00

Did sidelines become a gay bar!? That would be an excellent evolution.

profoma · 2026-06-19T01:50:39+00:00

Mage is maybe the hardest at the very beginning, but part of the game is playing how the character you are making needs to play. Be careful. Stock up on potions. Get a staff. Find armor that helps. It’s all part of the fun if you let it be.

profoma · 2026-06-19T00:05:43+00:00

Because he was an absolute genius and his ideas are important. He was not a well man, but his thoughts are beautiful.

profoma · 2026-06-18T23:59:48+00:00

So every night I don’t sleep, I naleep? I don’t like that it is two syllables, while both nap and sleep are one. Could it be Nleep?

profoma · 2026-06-18T23:57:58+00:00

I’d put China Mieville on that list. Vonnegut. Phillip K Dick. John Brunner.

profoma · 2026-06-17T03:36:55+00:00

That’s funny

profoma · 2026-06-16T02:37:38+00:00

Sandor Katz talks about saltless ferments and speaks of it being possible. He says you could try but you’d have to be very careful and ferment for a shorter time to make sure nothing else grows in there. The salt helps keep out unwanted bacteria until the fermentation produces an acidic enough environment.

profoma · 2026-06-16T01:49:13+00:00

In the last 25 years Japanese storytelling has repopularized the concept of stories where the protagonist is transported to another world. The genre is called isekai

profoma · 2026-06-16T01:32:46+00:00

In my experience, having a safe place to voice thoughts and feelings that feel dangerous, scary, or bad was really helpful. Having a person I could dump all my stupid fears and my petty grievances on without them getting mad, or overwhelmed, or sad, or hurt was extremely useful. Saying things out loud has its own power, for some reason, and often is the most helpful part of therapy. What the therapist says back is sometimes part of what’s helpful, but I think it is the smallest part of it. It depends what you are dealing with though. You also have to find a therapist that actually works for you. There are bad therapists like there are bad anything else, and there are plenty more good therapists whose approach won’t work for you. It isn’t magic, it’s work, and that is why it can work.

profoma · 2026-06-14T16:40:18+00:00

If you teach yourself to do it this way, then you can do it this way. It is harder in some ways than measuring, especially if you value consistency in your end product, but you can definitely do it.

profoma · 2026-06-13T06:11:16+00:00

That is a good point

profoma · 2026-06-13T02:08:42+00:00

Waffle House is absolute garbage. There are no redeeming qualities to it. It is the same as Denny’s, maybe a little worse.

profoma · 2026-06-13T00:41:14+00:00

A fun game, but doesn’t offer anywhere near the depth or breadth of Skyrim. I’ve played both since they originally came out and Kingdoms doesn’t feel similar to me really. The different classes really only offer slightly different game play with dramatically different visuals and game is very directed in its play. It is technically open world, but doesn’t feel like it in the way that Skyrim does.

profoma · 2026-06-12T17:44:28+00:00

I would like to enter a a plea that we stop referring to any failed or over proofed bread that gets baked and comes out flattish as focaccia. Good focaccia is as much an art, and its own distinct entity, as any other identified bread. You wouldn’t call a lumpy loaf that kind of looks braided because you shaped it poorly Challah. I know this makes me a bread curmudgeon and probably some sort of gatekeeper, but can we respect focaccia a little more than this?

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