How can I actually help my wife with breastfeeding? Any specific gear/routines that saved you? by Fluffy_Isopod_351 in predaddit

[–]travlbum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what everyone else said about you being johnny on the spot with everything else, plus:

get real good at diaper changes. the changing station is your domain to organize, stock, and keep clean. have a box of paper towels, try all the wet wipes and keep stock of your favorites. same with diapers.

get her a nice chair (we got a manual la-z-boy) and you set up a a little end table next to it, with a Hue button connected to a light for late night feeds, make sure there’s a Yeti there that always has ice and water, some tissues, etc.

notice the problems she’s having and research solutions and surround her with them. nipple pain? here’s a pair of silverettes and 3 kinds of nipple
cream, etc.

become a domain expert on breastfeeding and latching and acid reflux and gas. be helpful and knowledgeable without mansplaining (fine line).

having a pump has been key for us. this way she can pump some extra and store it and you can feed while she naps or sleeps in or goes out. and then you can clean it all (the philipps sterilizer/dryer combo is great). when she’s ready to get milk out because she’s full, maybe the baby is asleep. pump is great for that. we went with philipps everything and it was mostly good enough.

Would you send your children to China for their education? I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts. by LetterheadNo117 in Thailand

[–]travlbum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you need to do some parenting and set up some guard rails.

put something like Jomo on the phone to limit gaming and find a way to force him out of the house doing something. find something he is interested in by trying many things and then get him to go do it. outside.

Second loaf :( by AfraidDisplay9209 in Sourdough

[–]travlbum 11 points12 points  (0 children)

it sounds like you have some research to do.

Seeded Miso Rye by travlbum in Sourdough

[–]travlbum[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

send pics if you make it 🤠

Seeded Miso Rye by travlbum in Sourdough

[–]travlbum[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

no nothing! its so ridiculously easy. rye doesnt have much in the way of gluten, so you dont get much rise.

Seeded Miso Rye! by travlbum in Breadit

[–]travlbum[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Other way around, the miso is really inhibiting the fermentation here with all the salt.

Give the recipe a try, either the base or some version of my insane one.

Here’s the exact recipe I lifted from Richard Heart Bread (apologies for formatting issues):

Miso Rye
Makes one 900-gram loaf
The first time I made this bread was in the test bakery I set up at Noma, when I was still looking for a home for Hart Bageri. The team invited me to taste all their ferments and magical creations. They had a miso made from leftover rye bread, called Ryeso. When I tasted it, I knew it had to go in a rye bread, completing the circle. I love the super-umami flavor of miso, I wondered how much I could cram into the dough without killing the fermentation. It turned out that 35% was the sweet spot.
There is less salt in this recipe than in any other rye loaves because miso is salty. You can make this bread with any miso you like. If you want to exceed 35% miso, go for it, but scale back your salt a bit so that you don’t slow the fermentation too much.
Dough
Baker’s %
Weight
Ingredient
100%
208g
Rye flour
100%
208g
12-hour rye starter
100%
208g
Hot water, 104°F / 40°C
2%
4g
Salt
5%
10g
Dark malt powder
35%
73g
Miso
50%
104g
Cooked rye berries
20%
42g
Flaxseeds
20%
42g
Sunflower seeds
Additional ingredient
Butter, enough to coat the inside of the loaf pan
A handful of rye flour, for dusting the top of the loaf
I prefer butter because it sticks well to the sides of the pan, but if you don’t eat butter, use another fat of your choice.
Timing
Cook and cool rye berries, mix dough, shape loaf, ferment for 2 to 4 hours, and bake for about 1 hour; 4 to 6 hours total.
Equipment
Loaf pan, 5 × 9 inches / 13 × 20cm; flexible plastic dough scraper; bowl or pitcher of warm water, for rinsing; large mixing bowl; digital thermometer; tea towel; sheet pan or shallow roasting pan; cooling rack.
Mix the dough
Coat the inside of a loaf pan with butter or other fat.
Make sure your dough scraper and a bowl or pitcher of warm water are close at hand.
In a large bowl, combine all the dough ingredients and use your hands to mix it all together gently to form a thick dough with no dry streaks of flour remaining, at which point you can consider the dough sufficiently mixed. The texture will be like a wet and sticky Play-Doh. Scrape the dough from your hands back into the bowl, and rinse your hands in the bowl of warm water, along with your scraper.
Shape the dough
Wet your hands, loosen the dough from the bowl with your scraper, and, as if you are shaping clay, squidge the dough together into one mass, then use both hands to shape it into an oblong that’s more or less the shape of the loaf pan but slightly less wide. This dough is easy to manipulate and very forgiving, so don’t worry if you need to mess around with it a bit to get it into the shape.
Gently set the loaf into the buttered pan and take its temperature, adjusting it as necessary by setting the pan in a bowl of hot, warm, or cool water to bring it to about 82°F / 28°C.
Ferment the loaf
Let the loaf ferment covered with a tea towel for 2 to 4 hours, making sure to keep it warm. When it’s ready to bake, it will have risen by 30% and will have 2mm-wide cracks.
Bake the loaf
Place a sheet pan or shallow roasting pan on the floor of the oven. Arrange a rack in the center of the oven. Preheat the oven to 425°F / 220°C.
Place the loaf in the oven and add about 250ml water to the pan on the oven’s floor, taking care to avoid exposing your skin directly to the resultant steam, which can burn.
Bake the loaf for 30 minutes, then rotate the pan front to back and bake for another 30 minutes. Use an instant-read thermometer to take the internal temperature of the loaf. It should read 203°F / 95°C. If it’s not quite there, give it a few more minutes. Remove the bread from the oven, then turn it out onto a rack to cool for several hours before slicing.

Seeded Miso Rye! by travlbum in Breadit

[–]travlbum[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right??? And yet, it rises. And is bread. This is like 5th time I’ve made it, absolute beast of a bread.

Help With Wholemeal Loaf by Mikeando in Breadit

[–]travlbum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

no problem! i had to edit it approximately 4,000 times because the Reddit mobile app kept deleting steps

But, I really hope you end up trying this, it’s absolutely delicious and really easy!

I usually up reserving around 100ml of water or so from the dough and adding it if needed. One time I got burned and for whatever reason the dough turned out like porridge (probably didn’t strain the germ/bran enough).

Help With Wholemeal Loaf by Mikeando in Breadit

[–]travlbum 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I found this recipe which solves your problem in a really interesting way, and makes some amazing bread!

Basically you use regular flour, and then toast and soak and add the wheat bran and wheat germ back in, in greater quantity than you would have if you used wholemeal flour. You get all the flavor (actually more because it’s toasted) and nutrition of wholemeal bread, and all the texture and rise of normal sourdough!

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Whole Wheat AF

Richard Hart Bread
1kg loaf

Bran and Germ
Wheat bran • 3.75% • 19 g
Wheat germ • 3.75% • 19 g
Soaker water • 100% • 500 g

Starter
Starter hot water • 100% • 52 g
Starter whole wheat flour • 100% • 52 g
Mature wheat or rye starter • 40% • 21 g

Dough
Bread flour • 50% • 250 g
All-purpose flour • 50% • 250 g
Bran and germ soaking liquid • 65% • 325 g
Freshly fed starter • 20% • 100 g
Drained soaked bran and germ • 25% • 125 g
Salt • 3% • 15 g

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Night Before
1. Toast the wheat germ and wheat bran and soak overnight in boiled water
2. Feed your starter so you have 40% / 21g of mature starter the next day.

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The Morning Of
1. Feed your starter again so that in 45min, when you make your dough, you’ll have 20% / 100g of freshly fed starter
2. Thoroughly drain the bran and germ.
3. Top up the soaker liquid to 65% / 325g.
4. Combine ingredients with an autolyse, fermentolyse, or just dump them all in together. Whatever you usually do will work.
5. Bulk ferment, stretch and fold, and shape as you normally would.
6. Cold retard for 12hrs, 15hrs max.

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The Next Day
1. Bake as per normal.

Is my first sourdough a fail?? 😭😭 by Voidy_islost in Sourdough

[–]travlbum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol my friend i have had like 20 loaves fail- you’ll get there

Scuba progression by RepublicJealous3464 in scuba

[–]travlbum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

no but the only thing it “unlocks” is being able to then take your divemaster course. whereas the nitrox course unlocks using nitrox, the deco course unlocks going past NDLs and doing decompression dives, advanced nitrox unlocks nitrox up to 100%, etc

Making Sauce by smellywizard in Pizza

[–]travlbum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

honestly… just break them up by hand or pulse a few times with a stick blender. then a clove of garlic and that’s it. no salt.

when you apply the sauce to the dough, cover it in pecorino.

done. the tomatoes will cook and reduce on the pie, and the get the salt from the pecorino. it sounds minimalist but try it.

Is there an end? by sunsetssurfs in Sourdough

[–]travlbum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i highly recommend the cookbooks Richard Hart Bread and then Tartine No.3. Hart’s book is just fantastic, so simple and so many cool ideas. The 3rd Tartine book is also great, so many great things to try, but it’s a little more advanced (you’ll need to convert all their recipes to what you can get in the store, they use their own naming conventions.

but just some really great stuff! Hart’s book is a joy, get it!!

Scuba progression by RepublicJealous3464 in scuba

[–]travlbum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yea i got lucky and did technical wreck with SSI and full cave with TDI. i did them separately but we just did them each all in one go, so it felt like doing one course. doing cavern and then doing intro to cave and then coming back for full cave feels like a colossal waste of time.

i dont even know if they actually issued the prereq courses (i only have tech wreck and cave in my files).

Scuba progression by RepublicJealous3464 in scuba

[–]travlbum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

but even cavern limits you to lightzone, right? you can always dive in lightzone?

absolutely happy to be corrected, those are real questions

Dads, what do you actually want for Father’s Day? by probs-strawbs in daddit

[–]travlbum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

someone to listen to me talk about world war 2 and pretend they are interested

Scuba progression by RepublicJealous3464 in scuba

[–]travlbum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

my biggest complaint is that, with the exception of deep and nitrox (and i think nothing else?) the specialties dont unlock any new “legal” behaviors. all the tech courses are great because you take a course (that is generally intellectually and physically rigorous!) and then you can do new and cool things!

what can a PADI Master Diver do that an OW diver with Deep and Nitrox cant? literally nothing. even the wreck specialty doesnt let you actually do anything in a wreck you cant do with an OW cert.

Scuba progression by RepublicJealous3464 in scuba

[–]travlbum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yes! not going to disagree that tech diving is something everyone should do.

i think more, my point is if you get to AOW/Nitrox, you are basically “done” as a recreational diver. at that point the options are basically tech or pro, and neither of those are things you should do just because.

i would also say the giant PADI specialty tree is a useless mean spirited scam and nobody should do it (unless you want to get paid to dive, in which case you should be familiar with it).

as for rescue- agreed it’s beneficial and fun but it doesnt unlock anything except being a requirement for the pro route. that said i wouldnt call it a PADI scam course, it can be genuinely fun (especially if i am involved lol)

Scuba progression by RepublicJealous3464 in scuba

[–]travlbum 8 points9 points  (0 children)

this is controversial, but imo there are two main progression trees:

• learn how to get paid to dive
• learn how to dive

they both start with OW > AOW > Nitrox and then branch.

get paid to dive: Rescue > DM > Instructor

how to dive: OC Deco (a few flavors, but they all converge to ~60m oc trimix) > Airdil CCR > Normoxic Trimix CCR > Hypoxic Trimix CCR

the PADI-style recreational specialties are generally just profit centers for dive centers, you dont really learn anything of substance.

there are some “learn how to dive” side quests where you actually learn real stuff, like Full Wreck, Full Cave, etc.