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So funny how tech people must have such a detailed recipe for baking with sourdough. It's the same with coffee. Listen. Dough is a living organism. You cannot

So funny how tech people must have such a detailed recipe for baking with sourdough. It's the same with coffee. Listen. Dough is a living organism. You cannot set a timer to it. It must be nursed, especially based on what flour you use, freshness of the flour, the climate, the moisture etc. If you want to be really good at baking, then bake at least 100 loafs and see what you learn. Then try to change the flour brand and bake again. Then you will se a different result. You cannot time food. Get it.

jerzyt 7y ago
Yes, you're right. It really doesn't take a genius to make a sourdough. But you're misunderstanding the tech people. They will take tying shoelaces to the genius level. Same with baking bread. And it's a lot of fun for a lot of us.
- samizdis 7y ago
  Perhaps slightly off topic, but I have for years admired the cooking schematics on Cooking for Engineers. Here's the recipe for meat lasagne - scroll to the bottom and admire the schematic and the bonus layer diagram: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/36/Meat-Lasagna http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/36/Meat-Lasagna Edited to add: Oh, and you mentioned shoelaces, so the venerable Ian's Shoelace Site is a must: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/
01100011 7y ago
The internet psuhes this idea that you can quickly be an expert in anything, you just need to read a few websites or watch a few YouTube videos. It's nice to have those resources, but the advanced info is often useless without the context of experience. Doing things is often the only way to attain ability.