Christmas gift

Musical breaks are the mayonnaise of kid’s movies.

Took a guest through Glen Canyon up Twin Peaks new year’s eve, toured Philosopher’s Way with junior today. enjoy the green while it’s with us.

Had a few friends over for a holiday party this week and made two extra large New York style pizzas to feed everyone a lot faster and with a lot less work than my neapolitan process.

For the kids, a half-pep/half-mozz. For the adults: smoked kalamata olives (holy moly, amazing), red onion, mushroom, basil, pecorino, mozz.

I’ve been struggling to land on a good dough process without doing a bunch of math.

Lucky for me, I found a modern Lehmann calculator (named after a forums poster, so you know the approach is good), and have had great luck with it, using bakers percentages a bit more like Kenji’s at 60% hydration, 2% oil, 2% salt, 1% instant yeast.

I use cold water from the fridge and mix it using a food processor until it registers mid-70s F on a thermapen, then cold ferment.

Maybe counter-inuitive but someone posted (I don’t remember who or where, probably on pizzamaking.com) that bulk fermenting dough like this at room temperatures effectively insulates the dough from dropping to fridge temps when you later cold ferment, what with all the bubbles.

The dough should already have warmed up from both the cold strike water equalizing with the other ingredients to a target temp, and the kneading further raising the temp.

Just throw it in the fridge immediately.

Very small sample size but: I overshot kneading on one of two dough balls by 10 degrees to mid-80s F, so when I placed them in my fermenting tray (and flattened them out given I had so much space to work with, so that they would cool more evenly), I marked that one.

After cold fermenting, the too-warm dough was slightly smaller, visually, than the correctly kneaded dough.

Go figure.

Picked up after a friend who had already enjoyed it linked x.com/mickey17movie/status/1836197947668860958 in discord, very fun, read it in a few days.

P good! kinda Y.A. and a little slow to start but w/e, fun ending

Another one that I waited out thinking “eh, probably great but maybe I’ll pass” and then people I follow just kept citing it months and months later, so onto the pile it went. My first and not last Klein book, about significantly more than I expected.