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On 7/25/2023 at 8:22 PM, GammaGlobulin said:

I have been baking bread for decades. And, during the past ten years, I have had pretty good luck with a Thai brand of bread flour. The exact gluten content of this flour is not listed on the packaging. The packaging states only that this flour contains gluten. And then it states that the contents “may contain soybean”.

 

About six weeks ago, I purchased another 20 kilograms of the same brand of flour I have always used in Thailand. But this time, my bread tastes sort of like CHEAP cake, and it has that disagreeable persistent “cakey” aftertaste.

 

Here are a few important changes I have made in the baking process:

 

1. I switched from using a 1-Kg-loaf bread-making machine to a new machine which bakes 1.5 Kg loaves.

2. I now use the same brand of bread flour as always, (but a new recent purchase). I do not know the gluten content. There is very little information on the packaging, but the supplier is a large company here in Thailand. (And, I have had good luck with this brand in the past.)

3. I use the same recipe, except I have increased the relative amounts of ingredients as follows: 840 grams of flour. 520 cc of water. 2.5 teaspoons of instant yeast (same brand). 4 or 5 tablespoons of granulated sugar. 4 tablespoons of sunflower oil. 2 teaspoons of salt.

4. I always select the “dark” setting on both machines.

5. Both machines turn out loaves that look OK.

6. I use PERFECT brand yeast which has not expired.

7. I do not proof the yeast.

 

So, anyway, does anyone have any suggestions? I do not bake bread to save money, but because it’s more convenient than traveling to the store. Also, I do not like the bread being sold here.

 

What I would really like is to duplicate the taste of the best bread I have ever eaten, which was bread available in Dalian and in Hairbin, China.  Must be the wheat up there, but it was amazing, and you could taste the wheat flavor.

 

I can’t think of what else to add here, except that I was paying about Bt35.00 per kilogram for the flour (for over five years), which now goes for Bt42.00 per kilo when I buy a case of 10 kilograms of 1-kilo packages of flour.

 

I would prefer not to dump the 20 kilos I bought six weeks ago IF I can solve the baking issue, if it is only a baking/recipe problem.  However, I doubt I can continue eating bread that tastes like cheap cake. (Of course, I would not “dump it” and instead would just give it to someone that might like it.)

 

Thank you.

 

Please note: I do not want to pay an exorbitant amount just for bread flour.  In the US and in China, bread flour is not expensive, and it seems quite satisfactory in flavor. However, I do prefer a loaf of bread where one can really taste the wheat. 

On 7/25/2023 at 8:22 PM, GammaGlobulin said:

 

 

 

 

4/5 Tablespoons sugar? No wonder it tastes like cake. For 1200g of flour I add 1 teaspoon of sugar to the active yeast water. I must confess that the flour now seems to vary a bit.

On 7/26/2023 at 11:37 AM, bob smith said:

I have a recurring scenario thats been going on now for about a year.

every once in a whille mrs smith will order a package online that gets delivered by a particular motorbike driver.

he delivers post/packages etc.

when i first laid eyes on him he began with pleasant small talk, then again nice and pleasant when I saw him next.

However, around the 3rd time he started with the regular nosey Thai spiel along the lines of:

'where are you come from' 'how long u been in thailand' what you do here, you have thai wife, how much money you make etc etc etc.

so around the 4th time i made it clear to him that i was too busy for chit chat and abruptly went back inside.

 

for the last 3/4 visits i have made it patently clear that i am not interested in any kind of friendship/chit chat with him at all.

but still he persists this morning.

'you come from where?' how long you stay here? you like thai food?

all i want to do is collect my wifes parcel and go about my business.

I do not want to chit chat and I hate small talk, especially when they are using probing questions.

 

why does he continue to want to befriend me if i have made it perfectly clear i dont want to?

I usually no longer open the door to postmen but today i was so busy i just answered automtaically. 

 

do they not get the hint? do i have to tell him to eff off for it to hit home that i dont like him?

maybe next time i will let loose on him if he starts chatting me up again.

He seems like a nice boy.????????

On 7/26/2023 at 2:27 PM, bignok said:

I'm extremely bored with life when not travelling. I have things to do but don't enjoy it. I see people do less than me but seem happy doing next to nothing. They just watch crappy movies and the like. 

 

I can drink with a mate but he's depressing. I can drink with a female friend but she's a nut. I can hang out and talk shares with another but that bores me. Another friend lives far. Others I know are busy. Their lives look boring to me but they seem happy but you never know. A mate told me he's been depressed for 15 years and I couldnt tell.

 

So what the hell should i do? Be a full time nomad? I cant see how that works.

 

Or just watch crap movies like these other morons?

 

I don't know.

 

 

 

 

Now now, mother. Settle down. Did you get out of the wrong side of the bed this morning? Life is not that bad. Have a cup of tea and relax.????

1 hour ago, connda said:

How old are you.  Once your prostate enlarges, yep, you dribble.  Then join the club. 
It's just a fact of life for a significant number of men.  Why?  I don't think that any one has ever explained the mechanics no less a way to keep it from happening. 

But you'll find lot's of support here.  Welcome to Club Dribble.    You're among friends! 

Like the London song. 'Where ever I go I carry my poe. And a little piece of tissue paper.'????

13 hours ago, webfact said:

 

In a recent incident, Phra K Roi Lan, known as the controversial monk with a history of political involvement and legal issues, shed tears while vehemently dismissing any aspirations of forming a government.

 

The emotional outburst occurred during a Buddhist camp in Surin province, attended by around 900 students. What caught everyone's attention was the sight of candle wax covering his face during the episode.

 

The camp's speaker, Phra K Roi Lan, has a dubious reputation, raising eyebrows among the public and religious authorities. The candle wax on his face further added to the intrigue, with some speculating its symbolic significance or a ritualistic gesture, reported Sanook.

 

Phra Payom Kalayanano, the abbot of Suan Kaew Temple, commented that prospective monks typically undergo a month of meditation to assess their mental state before ordination.

 

He emphasized that if someone carries unresolved legal or moral issues, they should not be ordained.

 

The incident, coupled with the candle wax presence, has sparked concerns about Phra K Roi Lan's mental stability, prompting some to call for immediate psychological intervention.

 

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He is getting on everyone's wick.

On 5/6/2023 at 6:40 AM, BritManToo said:

We wondered how well the head was attached to the wall ............

 

It must have been travelling when it came through there.????

I watch Bangkok Post on line. They updated and modernised their website last week. Today I can't find Roger Crutchley's column, Old Crutch.? Anyone having the same problem, or am I looking in the wrong place?

11 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:

5 people killed and hardly a mention anywhere.....

Well. They were only foreign labour. Plenty more from where they came from.????

Didn't the same thing happen a few months ago and the police were taken to task? It seems that nothing changes.

3 hours ago, Suradit69 said:

Yes the police should have been waiting to assist  that passenger disembark.

Prior to take off from an airport in the Middle East I suggested to a stewardess that a passenger was drunk and I didn't want to fly with him. He was removed from the aircraft. A person who is drunk, from and in a country where alcohol is banned is a bit suspect.  

On 7/18/2023 at 9:39 AM, GammaGlobulin said:

This is what's wrong with the world, these days, among a few other things.

 

I would have wished to see the culture preserved rather than dismantled.

 

Football has become the new opium of the masses, and I refuse to be drawn in by either religion or football.

Football, and the reporting of football, should be banned on the BBC.

 

 

Having left England over thirty years ago I had been lucky enough for over fifty years to experience good TV drama. Dramas that gave food for thought and in an English language that was clear and understandable. Much the same as the films that came out of Hollywood in those days. Nowadays the dialogue is almost unintelligible sometimes. But then maybe, I'm a "It wasn't like that in my days" old <deleted>. I'll be downloading Alan Pinter.????

I never had the chance. During part of the war I was evacuated. Then he was in the Royal Navy for five years. Then I went in the army for my National Service and he died aged forty one in 1953. His last words to me were "Look after your mum." I suppose I'm more like my mother. I brought her here to Thailand to live out her days and she died here aged eighty eight. I've outlived her so maybe I'm more like her as regards longevity, so far.????

4 hours ago, Robin said:

An experienced politician would have known that his policy on sect 112 was going to cause trouble with the  Senate, and kept quiet on that until he was installed in power,

Inexperience and overconfidence are not good qualities for  new PM.

But isn't his policy on sec. 112 what the people voted for? Obviously the majority of the voting public want it changed.

Monitoring the users bowel movements.?????

I got my pension and arrears back after two months. There must be a better system than the present one. How do those living from hand to mouth survive with no pension? Fortunately I don't fall into that category.

55 minutes ago, Chainsaw said:

.....And thoughts, don't forget thoughts. They help just as much as prayers do. ????

And hearts and minds, of course.????

2 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

Go to the police for Mango theft. You are new here, right?

Go to the head man to sort it out. The police are not interested in 'minor to them' reports.

During the UK Mad Cow disease, scare, Thailand banned all beef products from the UK. Is that ban still in operation? It seems that the supermarkets do not now carry Knorr beef stock cubes. Oxo cubes. Bisto gravy powder and the like. Or is my wife shopping in the wrong places around Pattaya?

8 minutes ago, JoePai said:

Just the ones with a moustache

Sacre Bleu!????

18 hours ago, h90 said:

28 % of all voters voted for him. 73% voted for someone else or didn't care to vote at all.....

14 Million out of 55 vote for him

But he was voted in. That is democracy. Non voters have no right to a say in anything they should have voted on.