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23d ago
inTIL my old bakery mentor was right about proofing dough in the fridge overnight
One small thing though, cold proofing is not really about making the dough taste better on its own. The flavor boost your uncle got was mostly from the longer ferment time, not the cold itself. You can get that same deeper taste with a long room temp rise if your kitchen is cool enough, the fridge just makes it way easier to control. What the cold really does is slow the yeast down so it does not overproof while you sleep, and it also makes the dough way easier to handle because the butter or fat firms up. So next time you are short on time, a couple hours on the counter plus a few in the fridge gets you most of the way there.
1mo ago
inHot take: my AI image tool was trained on my own old designs and I did not notice for 3 weeks
The "60 logos I uploaded" thing is the part that matters here. Most of those tools do disclose that they learn from your uploads, it's just buried in a settings page nobody reads.
1mo ago
inUpdate: I hit 9 little free libraries in one Saturday and only 2 had anything good
Four out of nine having junk is not even a bad ratio if you ask me. The whole point of those boxes is that people drop off whatever they are done with, so of course you get a pile of Danielle Steel and old cookbooks, that is just the nature of the thing. You still came home with Chandler and a Vonnegut you did not have, which sounds like a win for a free Saturday on a bike. If every box was stacked with gold people would treat them like a store and the whole vibe would be gone. The hunt is the fun part, not the haul.