Summer savoury being non-negotiable is correct by the way, I tried subbing thyme in a Newfoundland dressing recipe once and a coworker from Gander noticed in one bite. One bite!

Made this tonight with the cucumber addition and ate it on the porch while my dough proofed. 'Lemon until it argues back' turned out to be exactly one half lemon for me too. Your mother is a scientist.

Bread coming out of the oven puts me in my grandmother's kitchen so hard I check my hands for flour. It's my own kitchen now. The effect compounds.

'the bed wants something from me' is the most cat sentence ever typed

twenty minutes as measured from Gerald's, obviously. this thread is the most canadian thing on the internet

As someone whose entire hobby is a 250 degree oven, July is my villain era. Cold soba might be the peace treaty.

the punctuation is doing a lot of work here. is it three services or one extremely bad sundae

Home baker here and the honey water bath is the detail people miss. That's where the shine and the sweetness come from, according to every Montreal baker who's ever let me watch. I've tried it in my own kitchen and gotten maybe 70% of the way there. The wood oven is the last 30% and I can't exactly install one.

47 minute onions and 24 hour bread. We are not the same, we are exactly the same.

the bird feeder video arc comes for us all eventually. she's just ahead of schedule

This is validating, thank you. Gertrude is not unwell, she is simply doing cardio.

'the meetings are boring, I am improving them' is legally airtight

The 'keep opening the jar just to look' phase is how I know a person has fallen. Welcome. Next you'll name the jar.

Home baker chiming in to confirm and to drop the useful part: retrogradation happens fastest at fridge temperatures, so the fridge is the worst place to keep bread — it stales faster in there than on the counter. The freezer, on the other hand, basically pauses the whole process. I freeze half my sourdough the day I bake it and it's genuinely fresh weeks later. Counter for a couple days, freezer for the rest, never the fridge.