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Dear Self,
Following instructions in baking is important. I get that! Baking is a complicated chemical process that you and I don't really understand that well, and changing the wrong part of it can throw the reactions off so that nothing works properly at all. You use instructions so that that doesn't happen, and at the end you usually have nice delicious baked goods to show for it. However, I think we've been doing this for long enough to know when the instructions are telling us to do something bally stupid and wrong. And that is the point at which you might want to step back and reconsider what you are doing, instead of ignoring five years of baking experience and just blundering on with what you've been told to do. Just maybe?
But if you had the sense to do that, then you wouldn't have ruined your first sponge by using cold water from the tap instead of warm water so it didn't rise and you were left with a sticky mess. And then you wouldn't be finishing your last rise at 1 in the morning, long after all sensible people have STOPPED BAKING. Seriously, self, we have better things to be doing at one in the morning than kneading bread dough. I hope you've learned your lesson this time.
love,
These bagels better be fucking worth it
Following instructions in baking is important. I get that! Baking is a complicated chemical process that you and I don't really understand that well, and changing the wrong part of it can throw the reactions off so that nothing works properly at all. You use instructions so that that doesn't happen, and at the end you usually have nice delicious baked goods to show for it. However, I think we've been doing this for long enough to know when the instructions are telling us to do something bally stupid and wrong. And that is the point at which you might want to step back and reconsider what you are doing, instead of ignoring five years of baking experience and just blundering on with what you've been told to do. Just maybe?
But if you had the sense to do that, then you wouldn't have ruined your first sponge by using cold water from the tap instead of warm water so it didn't rise and you were left with a sticky mess. And then you wouldn't be finishing your last rise at 1 in the morning, long after all sensible people have STOPPED BAKING. Seriously, self, we have better things to be doing at one in the morning than kneading bread dough. I hope you've learned your lesson this time.
love,
These bagels better be fucking worth it