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Adventures In Fooding, Episode MMMCMXCIX

Mix, cover, leave in the garage overnight (~282 Kelvin this morning). This treatment will tend the dough towards the sour side, and probably also more flavor development as the bugs wake up and (slowly) do their thing.

It might be good to know the water percentage of the starter, but that's not this universe. In hindsight, more flour (and therefore also water) would likely be necessary to reach the 100g of flour typical for a calzone or thin pizza crust to fill a 10" skillet.

    $ cpanm Food::Ratio
    ...
    $ printf "57.2 flour\n42.8 water" | foodratio --ratio id:flour
    57.2    100%    flour
    42.8    74.83%  water
    --
    100     174.8%  *total

We can make some guesses at the water percentage of the sourdough; 100% hydration--an equal weight of flour and water--would put the new dough at 82% hydration,

    $ cat dough
    57.2 flour flour
    42.8 water water
    25 sourflour flour
    25 sourwater water
    $ < dough foodratio --ratio group:flour
    57.2    69.59%  flour   flour
    42.8    52.07%  water   water
    25      30.41%  sourflour       flour
    25      30.41%  sourwater       water
    --
    82.2    100%    flour
    67.8    82.48%  water
    --
    150     182.5%  *total

and 50% which would put the new dough hydration at 65%.

    $ cat dough
    57.2 flour flour
    42.8 water water
    33.333 sourflour flour
    16.666 sourwater water
    $ < dough foodratio --ratio id:sourflour
    57.2    171.6%  flour   flour
    42.8    128.4%  water   water
    33.33   100%    sourflour       flour
    16.67   50%     sourwater       water
    --
    90.53   271.6%  flour
    59.47   178.4%  water
    --
    149.999 450%    *total
    $ < dough foodratio --ratio group:flour
    57.2    63.18%  flour   flour
    42.8    47.28%  water   water
    33.33   36.82%  sourflour       flour
    16.67   18.41%  sourwater       water
    --
    90.53   100%    flour
    59.47   65.68%  water
    --
    149.999 165.7%  *total

The new dough is very sticky, so the starter is probably much closer to 100% hydration than 50%. One solution here would be to weigh the new dough and then add flour to reach around 175g total, reserving some grams for some water should the dough become too stiff, which is unlikely.

Meanwhile, the next crisis is that there are only diced tomatoes available. The plot thickens...

tags #perl #food #bread

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