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posted by chromas on Tuesday November 20 2018, @10:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the kitcheneering dept.

Eater has a longer article on how sourdough, and bread in general, is back in fashion and the changes being inflicted on the millenias-old staple by tech bros.

“I spent a lot of time — I don’t want to say ‘debugging,’ because that sounds really technical — but just working on recipes and trying to teach myself and there really weren’t a lot of materials out there at the time to do that,” he told me by phone this spring. “With bread baking, you kind of follow an algorithm to produce a result and that result isn’t always what you think it’s going to be, so you kind of have to step back and debug and diagnose the steps along the way. How did I go wrong here? That’s because technically the temperature might not be right or the dough strength might not be right. That iterative procedure and working through those algorithms kind of appeals to engineer. There’s the precision part of it, but also, when it comes down to it, technical people like to work with their hands. You want to construct something and I think bread is a good way to do that.”


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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 20 2018, @10:51PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 20 2018, @10:51PM (#764437)

    Who’d be dumb enough to buy the book after he gives the recipe away in the title?

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday November 20 2018, @11:44PM (2 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday November 20 2018, @11:44PM (#764462)

    Same people who went to see Titanic, Dunkirk, or Pearl Harbor.

    Maybe those who saw Titanic ten times also buy multiple book copies...

    • (Score: 2) by Rich on Wednesday November 21 2018, @02:41AM (1 child)

      by Rich (945) on Wednesday November 21 2018, @02:41AM (#764542) Journal

      Same people who went to see ... Pearl Harbor.

      Well, if they saw that instead of Tora! Tora! Tora! they're surely dumb enough! :)

      • (Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Wednesday November 21 2018, @05:35PM

        by Osamabobama (5842) on Wednesday November 21 2018, @05:35PM (#764835)

        I went to see Pearl Harbor a few months ago. I had lunch at Restaurant 604, near the Arizona memorial. It's right on the water, so there's a good view, and they have decent food. Try the bloody Mary.

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