Any Home Bakers Here?

[rjohns39]

Well the bread is in the proofer. It took a little over 3 TBS bread flour to get to six minutes in the Kitchen aid. I've always used #4 for kneading, what do you use?

Dough came out dense and sticky but stretch and fold took very little flour and no tearing. We'll check back in an hour...

 

[rjohns39]

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made deviled eggs for the first time. I like them.

They look delish... I love deviled eggs

 

[ValerieJ]

What a waste to use cyanide on bees. Bees can be very easily killed by spraying them with soapy water. It causes them to suffocate.

Why are we killing bees?

 

[PhillyDelcoChix]

I'm probably way more over the top more than you My pantry and freezers are well stocked. I also have plenty of beans, rice, wheat, rye, oats, sugar, flour, etc... I store inside mylar bags that are vacuum sealed with O2 absorbers in them, stored in food grade buckets with omni lids. I buy in bulk at the best prices I can find and follow sales throughout the year. Only buying when the price is right and I need to re-stock.

I do that sometimes too especially for staples that my kids love or a really good sale:
Campbell’s tomato soup
Kids cereal when it goes on sale (20-40 boxes) though it doesn’t last long in our house
Mac and cheese
Some exceptionally good aged cheddar
Irish bangers as it’s their season
Organic chicken and beef when it goes on sale then straight into the freezer


I guess it’ll be a while before prep shopping like that will continue.

 

[PhillyDelcoChix]

My “apocalypse list”, in order of importance:
Horse meds
Carrots (to hide horse pills)
Chicken food
Dog food
Cat food
More yeast (didn’t really get)
More flour (only two tiny bags)
Extra milk (for the freezer)
Frozen vegetables

We have plenty of meat frozen, and eggs of course, and still lots of garden potatoes.

I also picked up a bunch of stuff, chemicals mostly, so I can keep working, though I suppose people probably thought I was hoarding at I rolled my cart around laden with 200lbs of bagged salt. Haha, I got a few strange looks so I started telling people that salt kills coronavirus. I’m an ass lol

That’s not very nice. Though I bet some people probably ran to get some salt just in case you were right!

 

[PhillyDelcoChix]

Why are we killing bees?

I agree. Bees are the backbone of everything we need to survive on this planet.

 

[jnicholes]

My father works for a sanitary supply company. It's CHAOS now. A lot of stuff on back order.

A real stressful situation.

 

[R2elk]

Why are we killing bees?

I believe that it was @ronott1 's father that was killing bees and hornets. I think the bees he was killing were the nasty sweat bees that have underground homes.

 

[Aria]

I believe that it was @ronott1 's father that was killing bees and hornets. I think the bees he was killing were the nasty sweat bees that have underground homes.

YES, those underground bees have set me to urgent care MANY times..
Aria

 

[R2elk]

YES, those underground bees have set me to urgent care MANY times..
Aria

I have underground wasps here. They are the biggest wasps I have ever seen. The white ones with blue eyes are pretty (IMHO). They are sand wasps. They are solitary. I often see them on the wildflowers. I have never had one offer to sting me.