cmburns

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• Football

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 2 hours

  

  What's the point of VAR then? That's a disgrace

• Cricket

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 10 hours

  

  I woke up expecting the game to have been called off

  lol

• Bread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 8 hours

  

  I should add I changed up the process slightly with bulk fermentation; did the fold and turns for two hours, left it for an hour and then put in the fridge at midnight instead of doing pre-shape/bench rest/shaping; left in there for about 16 hours or so, then did the above and left them at room temp (covered) for a few hours while preheating the oven.

  As for hydration, 70% (I think); normally calls for 700+50 but I dropped it to 650+50 to see how it panned out

• Bread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 19 hours

  

  Felt fairly confident about tonight's bake, predominantly because shaping was a hell of a lot easier and I felt like they had some fairly good tension, but the batard dropped again and the boule didn't have as much oven spring as I'd liked; I might move to using the smaller batard banneton.

  

  

  Also any advice on scoring? I've ordered a new grignette in case the one I got with the bannetons is just fucked, but a) scoring inside a dutch oven is hard without burning yourself and b) when I'm trying to slash along the dough just 'tugs' as I try to get something in there

• Films

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 7 hours

  

  Anyone been to Rich Mix in Bethnal Green? Looks like a nice cinema, £6 Mondays as well

• Cricket

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 12 hours

  

  This was worth waking up at 5am for

• Video Games

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 10 hours

  

  I see the PC launch of RDR2 went very smoothly, ah.

  I'm still not a third of the way through, but spent most of last evening just hunting...

• Films

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 21 hours

  

  Yeah, read that. Still kinda see his point and agree with him.

• Films

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 22 hours

  

  Speaking of theatrical releases, anywhere south of the river showing The Irishman? Cineworld, Vue and Picturehouses aren't touching it and I can't be fucked going into central or paying £18 at an Everyman

• Bread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week

  

  I feel like it, yeah; managed to get a more taut ball when pre-shaping as well

  Steam at the moment is used by soaking tea towels, putting them in the microwave for 3 minutes and then on a baking tray below the stone; I then boil a kettle and soak them in the oven some more