Dear Folks,

I am using very potent yeast.

And, I have overfilled my bread machine.

The entire project is a-shakin’....the table, at the moment….

Yeah

Yeah

Yeah…..

In fact, every time I bake bread, I have Hendrix in the back of my mind.

Jimi was full of exuberance.

And, I, as well.

This is why I often get carried away, and overfill my machine with too much flour.

Does this ever happen to you?

The worst that has ever happened in such cases, from my own experience, is that the loaf expands and pushes the lid of the bread machine up about 45 degrees.

Still, somehow, it bakes fairly well.

Yet, sometimes the top 10% is left a bit too doughy…when the lid comes unhinged.

I never write anything on TV that is not completely real.

And, when bad things happen to my loaf, I just enjoy consuming my mistakes.

When my loaf fails, I simply make tuna soup out of my loaf.

I have had many great successes during the past years.

I have also had my failures.

But, the main thing is that I eat it all.

I never waste even a morsel.

This kind of ethic is hard to find among young people these days, and also hard to swallow.

It’s not so easy to bake a 2kg loaf in a consumer machine, but I do, anyway.

I use UFM-1964.

When I bake, and even though I no-longer knead, I play music, and mostly Henrix.

There is a tune I sing, which goes sort of like: “I just pushed out a loaf today”....Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.

Do you know the tune?

Someday, I hope to begin cooking with something other than refined white flour, but not this month.

Best regards,

Gamma

Important Note:  I think the song I was thinking about, just this evening, while baking my bread, was the Hendrix tune with lyrics involving RISING…..and you know the lines….

But, now that I think of it, perhaps it was actually NOT this tune, but some other tune. I mean: I DO know the tune, but I will need to tell you later....maybe tomorrow, or Friday.

"Well, I stand up next to a mountain...""And I chop it down with the edge of my hand"

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

The entire project is a-shakin’....the table, at the moment….

But, it was worth it, in the end.

I actually required almost 9 hours to push this loaf out.

It weighs in at about 2kg.

And, all my loaves are beautiful, and I show no favoritism among them.

@GammaGlobulin Try using a scale, you'll get consistent results.

UFM makes most of the flour in TH, under different names: Flour Goose, Kite, Lotus, and Fan.

1 hour ago, KhunLA said:

@GammaGlobulin Try using a scale, you'll get consistent results.

UFM makes most of the flour in TH, under different names: Flour Goose, Kite, Lotus, and Fan.

Maybe.

But, who can afford batteries, these days.

Or, perhaps I could use a balance?

So, then...the question becomes:

NOT how many cups of flour, but...

How many KILOGRAMS.

And, NOT how many NEWTONS of flour but....

How many KILOGRAMS....because.....

A Kilogram on Earth is the same as a Kilogram on Mars.....

If baking for Elon, my friend, as you know.

53 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

who can afford batteries, these days.

In fact, this is the reason why I did, in one fell-swoop, exterminate all the wireless mice from my house, about a year ago.

These days, I use only wired mices.

The act of having products which can be wired, but which, alternatively, use batteries, I view as a scam which enriches battery companies, such as....

The American Electrical Novelty Company.

Batteries were a novelty in the past.

And, despite what Elon tells us....

Batteries will become a novelty, and a niche, item, in the future.

There are far better ways of powering our tiny devices, such as...

Hydrogen.

So, I cannot afford, nor would I wish pay, money to a novelty company, or a battery company.

Hydrogen is the way of the future for powering phones and other tiny devices, such as mice.

Also....

Most Importantly:

\Why would I wish to eat Home-Baked Bread if I knew it relied on BATTERIES?

in such case, I would rather just eat bread from some FACTORY which also produces BATTERIES.

Why not just eat some sourdough bread made with BATTERIES, for example?

And, also, I actually DID have a scale which I used for baking bread, a few years ago.

It died.

So now, I just use a small plastic cup.

For ease of use and to save money,

I just repurpose the same cup for measuring bread flour as I

Use for protecting my balls.

3 hours ago, KhunLA said:

UFM

Seems to be a good product.

Reasonably priced.

I have used this flour for about 13 years.

Buying flour in China, as a retail customer, is more difficult,

Unless you know what you are doing.

Who knows, sometimes, what you are getting from the local wet market.

1 minute ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Seems to be a good product.

Reasonably priced.

I have used this flour for about 13 years.

Buying flour in China, as a retail customer, is more difficult,

Unless you know what you are doing.

Who knows, sometimes, what you are getting from the local wet market.

I don't do wet markets. Bad enough there's probably little oversight in the chain markets. Why I don't complain about CP controlling the food industry in TH. Hopefully they pay a little bit of attention, as they really don't need to scam our health for profits.

Don't mind fruits & veggies from CN either, as Thai FDA at least does spot checks, every now & then. Nobody is checking wet markets for over use of pesticides on stuff sold there.