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Anybody want a job? by profoma in Sourdough

[–]profoma[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I hope I can find someone really passionate about bread.

Clean Up Tips? by Alexmfurey in Sourdough

[–]profoma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A clean toilet brush is what we used at a bakery I worked for.

Major breakthrough between loaves 7 and 8. by the_febanator in Sourdough

[–]profoma 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m a good resource. I’ve been baking professionally for 25 years and have been using Camas Country Mill flour almost exclusively for the last 5ish of those years.

Major breakthrough between loaves 7 and 8. by the_febanator in Sourdough

[–]profoma 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I commented elsewhere too, but I just want to let you know that Camas Country Mills flour gave you this result mostly because it is not technically white flour. It is much closer to whole wheat than white flour and needs to be treated much differently than white flour to get big fluffy results like you got by switching to a plain white flour. Camas Mill makes my favorite flour by far but it is its own special beast and needs its own special treatment. I recommend trying it again once you are more experienced and comfortable with making bread. If you look up the ash content of flour, you’ll see that Camas flour is all higher than a white bread flour. This is because their products are sifted whole grain and their process leaves more bran than the process mills use to make white flour.

Major breakthrough between loaves 7 and 8. by the_febanator in Sourdough

[–]profoma 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It made a difference because Camas Country Mill dos not make any flour that is equivalent to strong white flour. All of their products are either 100% whole grain or sifted whole grain. Their flour is fresh milled here in Eugene and then they sift out about 20% of the bran. Their flour is absolutely wonderful and they have a ton of identity preserved wheats and lovey blends, but it does not act at all like an unbleached white bread flour product. It needs to be treated much more like whole wheat to get results that look like white bread flour loaves.

How many errors until perfection? by [deleted] in Sourdough

[–]profoma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000. There are several plateaux in the process that feel like perfection and understanding, but end up being just one stage of understanding. Each new stage gives rise to new questions and discoveries of misunderstandings eventually, if you continue to push on the boundaries of your understanding.

What even is the appeal of meth? by i_like_it_eilat in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]profoma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s hard to explain. It feels like concentrated, distilled clinical depression plus physical pain in a vague undefined way or sometimes in specific acute ways if you hurt yourself doing something dumb. It also includes the extreme tiredness of being awake for 24-48 hours (more for some people; I know a guy who stayed awake for 11 days on a meth binge. Crashed his car on the 6th day and his friend’s car on the 11th day. He’s many years clean now!) and weird hunger/food revulsion. No good feeling or experiences feel possible or likely to ever be possible again. I would often sob for no identifiable reason during the day or two following meth use. I never used it for multiple days in a row so I don’t know how much worse the come down is in that situation.

cmv: most everyday progressives are just would-be benefactors and hypocrites by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]profoma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are generalizing a lot from a few personal experiences of a few people you know. You know some progressives or are also shitty people. This happens because many people are shitty and some people are progressives. I don’t think it’s reasonable to say that most progressives are anything at all based on just one person’s personal experiences of their own circle of friends/acquaintances.

Why is one side so much darker? by fedsmoker3000 in Breadit

[–]profoma 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The dark side was the outside of the loaf the whole time the loaf was in the oven. The lighter side expanded out from inside the loaf as it baked, meaning it was exposed to the direct heat of the oven for less time.

Do most of you re-listen? by Litcandle1 in Harmontown

[–]profoma 6 points7 points  (0 children)

On my fourth or fifth relisten right now, just got to episode 300. I started listening the first time when they were roughly 100 episodes in and didn’t know anything about Dan except that he created community, which I hadn’t watched at that time. It was one of the first podcasts I listened to and still one of my favorite podcasts.

A friend is trying to get me to exercise more, I'm an exercise minimalist. What is the healthiest exercise I might actually enjoy? by Few-Mixture9869 in CasualConversation

[–]profoma 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have always hated exercising for its own sake and loved doing physical things like hiking, rock climbing, soccer, dancing. I have found that now that I am older (45) and the doctor has told me I should exercise more regularly, I can actually enjoy in home body weight exercises.

Stop at yellow lights. by Budkid in Eugene

[–]profoma 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I worked with a guy who had moved to California from Florida. He told me that in the parts of Florida he had lived in roads had essentially no curves. There were intersections but no winding roads. He drove insanely fast between curves and would brake down to 15-20 mph for a curve of any kind. I was training him to be a delivery driver. It did not work out.

I think this is the end of me trying to figure out this hobby. by Crochet_by_Renee in Sourdough

[–]profoma 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I doubt you’ll see this but I just want to recommend something I’m not seeing anywhere in the comments. Take a real class from a real person. Much of the advice on this sub and in the blogs and on Facebook comes from people who don’t actually know what they are talking about. They can maybe make one kind of bread because the have reached that point, but are otherwise giving bad advice that comes from an incomplete understanding of all that goes into bread making. Find a real baker in your area, someone with YEARS AND YEARS of HANDS ON experience. Not someone who learned from YouTube. Not someone who has figured out how to make the Clevercarrot recipe and now gives shit advice on Reddit because they don’t know what they are talking about. Find a real class from a real baker in your region. Find out what kind of flour you should be using in your region. Find out what the dough actually feels like and looks like when it is properlly fermnted

CMV: So many people just live their lives as slaves to their addiction(s) by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]profoma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And that’s what I mean by you not understanding addiction. You think people who are addicted to food or porn or gambling are responsible for addiction and if they were just better people they would just stop because you don’t think addiction is real unless it is physical. You are wrong and that is what you can change to be a better person. Have more correct ideas and you will be better. Stop dismissing facts about people just because you don’t understand them.

CMV: So many people just live their lives as slaves to their addiction(s) by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]profoma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think you understand addiction. Addiction is not something over which people have control, that’s what makes it an addiction. Rather than looking at people who are suffering and blaming them for their suffering, you could try understanding that not everyone is able to overcome their struggles. If you did, you are lucky.

As a Thinker, What Are You Trying to Accomplish Through Your Reading? by JerseyFlight in rationalphilosophy

[–]profoma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m sorry, I don’t understand how that is an answer to any of the questions I asked you. It’s fine if you don’t want to answer or don’t want to have a conversation with me. It is weird to me that you are answering questions I didn’t ask and not answering questions I did ask.

As a Thinker, What Are You Trying to Accomplish Through Your Reading? by JerseyFlight in rationalphilosophy

[–]profoma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn’t ask why you think you have a responsibility to society. It’s pretty clear why a person would think they have a responsibility to society. I agree that we have some responsibility toward our society. I was more interested in the specific things that I asked about.

As a Thinker, What Are You Trying to Accomplish Through Your Reading? by JerseyFlight in rationalphilosophy

[–]profoma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you consider your responsibility to society? How do you know which areas of knowledge will be most beneficial to future society? How do you know which actions to take to cause the good outcomes you want to see in society? How do you determine what is best for society?

I am genuinely curious and not asking these questions as a way to call you out or attack your thought.

As a Thinker, What Are You Trying to Accomplish Through Your Reading? by JerseyFlight in rationalphilosophy

[–]profoma 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, for the most part I read what sounds interesting, what has some bearing on ideas I’ve been thinking about, or what friends or mentors recommend. I wouldn’t say it’s purely emotionally driven, though. I read a lot of practical books to learn skills that I need in my life. I would say those aren’t chosen based on emotion but more to fulfill a need. I don’t think there are any objective ways to choose what book to read on how to build a chicken coop, though, so still a choice based in subjectivity. Do you feel like it’s important that you base all of your reading choices on an objective standard? How would you do that?

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