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joseph_adams66•5h ago

My old oven thermometer was off by 40 degrees and I only found out after 2 years of blaming my starter

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parker_thomas•1d ago

Hit 100 loaves sold in a single Saturday at the Greenville farmers market and I wasn't ready for it

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murphy.blair•1d ago

A guy at the Portland farmers market watched me ice my cinnamon rolls too early and just shook his head

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kim_west•2d ago

Vent: an old baker in Toledo showed me how to check proof with my elbow, and I still think about it

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robert_anderson69•3d ago

Unpopular opinion: cake strips are a waste of money and a wet towel does the same job

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hugo_schmidt•5d ago

Vent: my proofing box broke so I used my car with a bowl of hot water and it actually worked

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hugo_schmidt•5d ago

The Saturday my oven thermostat died mid wedding order, 80 rolls half raw

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sullivan.finley•6d ago

Chose between my grandma's hand mixer and a $400 stand mixer for a 6 hour wedding cake job

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the_leo•8d ago

Guy at the Atlanta bread fest said my 40 year old starter was cheating, now I can't stop thinking about it

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taylor_young•9d ago

Shoutout to the $18 dough scraper that saved my sourdough batch

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the_jana•10d ago

My stand mixer died 14 minutes into a wedding cake batter and I had to finish by hand

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margaret_kelly55•10d ago

A customer at my Saturday market booth said my sourdough was 'pretty but boring' and it stung in the best way

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ross.felix•10d ago

Customer asked me to leave the butter chunks big in her pie crust and it changed how I bake

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zarar67•14d ago

My first baking teacher in Chicago said never open the oven during the first 15 minutes, and after 6 years of stubborn trial and error I finally get why

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ben_nguyen•15d ago

I finally figured out my sourdough was flat because of one dumb thing I did for 3 years

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