Arducius

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• Minute cryptic

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 hours, 42 minutes

  

  First guess! 2 under.

• Minute cryptic

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 7 hours

  

  Oh I just got "fail promise", sometimes these feel like really bad dad jokes.

• Minute cryptic

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 7 hours

  

  2 under but I will need to watch the video to get the rest of the clue!

• Minute cryptic

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 7 hours

  

  FFS got the answer pretty quickly but it only just occurred to me you don't spell it the way I had 🤬
  Was saying to my wife it must be the answer, it works with all parts of the clue etc.
  2 under but maybe I should stop doing these in the morning!

• Minute cryptic

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 19 hours

  

  Fuck today's clue. Par. Feel like I tried the exact line of thinking that got the answer and even tried the answer hours ago. No "ah ha!" moment today, just a slog of trying all the words I could think of that would fit any stretch of the possible definitions and wordplay. Got a few that would have fit the clue and I'm convinced I got the answer ages earlier.
  Roll on tomorrow.

• Bread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 6 hours

  

  On starters... I use a 50:50 mix of wholemeal and dark rye in mine, the idea being that different types of flour will encourage different yeasts, rye adds flavour (my kids like a pretty white bread), gut health is promoted by eating a wide variety of plants so adding rye meand we're getting some more variation, and it means I don't use lots of rye flour which is more expensive. Also microbes in our gut are supposed to like fibre, so the additional fibre in the wholemeal flours might promote some further diversity in the starter culture.

  No idea if any of this is true but wondering if anyone else does something similar. I used to maintain a white wheat and dark rye starter but too much faff.

• Bread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 6 hours

  

  Why are people storing their starters in air-tight containers? The gasses produced can increase the pressure inside and no one wants a kilner explosion. Plus you're excluding your natural local yeasts which will improve the biodiversity of your starter.

  I use a PB tub (1kg) with the lid only pressed down one side.

• Minute cryptic

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 7 hours

  

  Oh seems so obvious now... 2 under.

• Minute cryptic

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 7 hours

  

  Conversely I always find these short word phrases harder as any small word on its own doesn't really help get the the answer until you get the whole phrase. Can't unpick the clue today, despite some obvious indicators.

• Minute cryptic

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 days, 8 hours

  

  Easy one today, 2 under. Would help if I could spell it though, got the answer wrong so moved on before going full circle and realising my error!