Making rum and raisin truffles for a family order, two questions. How long do the raisins actually need to soak? And half the family doesn't take alcohol, so what do I soak the second batch...
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Every piece of advice assumes I already have an audience. I have 140 followers, most of them relatives, and I'm not comfortable being on camera. Those of you who built a home bakery without...
Learned that pav is shaped straight after kneading and gets one proof in the tin, then baked. Everything else I make gets two proofs. Is pav really fine with one? Feels like I'm skipping hom...
Continuing my pav journey 😄 taste is there, softness is there, but mine sit short and modest while the reference photos have those tall proud domes. What separates decent pav from THAT pav?
I have a shortlist of five places in Delhi and on paper they're indistinguishable. Same claims, similar fee bands, similarly glossy Instagram. Looking for comparison criteria that actually d...
Baked four beautiful loaves on Sunday, put two in the fridge "to keep them fresh" and they went weirdly dry and firm by Tuesday. The two on the counter were somehow better?? What's the actua...
My cakes keep coming out with hard dark sides and the middle barely done. I run both rods with the fan on because... more heat is better? apparently not?? Should the fan just stay off for ca...
50 MINUTES at 170, lower rod only, and the skewer still comes out wet in the middle. Top pale, edges okay-ish. This recipe supposedly bakes in 35 minutes for other people. What are the possi...
Recipes just casually say "prepare your butter block" like that's not its own skill 😅 how do you actually shape it? and how cold is right - my last one shattered into shards mid-roll, the on...
Ready to upgrade both my oven and mixer and the options are overwhelming. Everyone on Instagram swears by something different - imported convection ovens, this OTG, that OTG, Kenwood vs chea...