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Thursday, 17 February 2011

Makin'...
01:31

pizzas yesterday today and prints more rock.

I finally decided to buy myself a stand mixer, and I'm glad I did: When I tried to make bread in the past, the initial mixing was always my least favorite part of the whole thing, since it hurt my hands a lot; by comparison, kneading was a doddle (I thought). I tried making pizza following Peter Reinhart's recipe from The Bread Baker's Apprentice, and that eventually wound up a dismal failure - dough that tore and wouldn't stretch or, ultimately, was just a gray gluey mess. Talking to a friend of mine, this is probably because it was underkneaded; but now, using this mixer... It's so much faster and easier. I used too much yeast, so it winds up really bubbly, bubble, but nonetheless it actually hangs together and is nice and stretchy, and is nice and holey once baked.

The print's not bad either, but the blacks aren't quite deep enough - a fault of the luster Epson paper I used. Still, it's the largest I have, and I think this image wants to be larger rather than smaller.