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I think this may be a suitable place to insert my focaccia recipe, seeing as I do get asked about it often*. Sourdough focaccia is so easy and great. I do 20% active levain, 75-80% hydration, 2% salt, which amounts to 200g levain, 750g water, 20g salt and 1000 g flour. I literally use AP flour, nothing fancy, but consider this my announcement that I would happily accept some cool fancy fricked up local flour if anyone wants to provide that to me. Anyway I stretch that stuff, I dimple it up, and boom, gorge focach. Disclaimer: one would be wise to wash ones hands when oscillating between oil painting and hand-kneading bread, but following my own advice is not my strong suit. *well, I offer it up verbally at the slightest mention of any carbohydrate, but let’s just say everyone’s always asking me, so this can feel as though I’m giving back to the bread community.
Jun 16, 2022
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I've accepted that I'll never successfully make sourdough and will be making this for the rest of my life instead (dimpling > kneading!!!)
Jan 24, 2024
well I carried through on learning how to make a focaccia. Actually really damn easy. It came out really thick and buoyant so want to try some other recipes to get the oily crispyness down.
Mar 2, 2025
i’m back on my fermentation shit.with my starter i’ve made about 6 whole wheat loaves, crumpets, and now focaccia. I also fermented a ton of chiles for a special hot sauce i made for my dad for xmas. I didn’t have any temp control in my kitchen i think at any single place i lived in new york, so now these things are easier again in california.
Photo of sourdough focaccia: half tomato pie, half castlevetrano, sesame, garlic. Shoutout for working endlessly to give us photography on this application tyler
Jan 5, 2024
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I don’t know why this isn’t a more popular beverage, but a cold brew alcoholic splash into a nice glass of tonic will swiftly usurp the place in your mouth’s heart that’s been hitherto reserved for espresso martinis and/or Diet Coke.
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Honestly, it works great
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I recently made the very (self-proclaimed) avant garde decision of leaving lower Manhattan and moving to midtown (k-town to be exact), and, while I know this may be shocking, I love it. The Empire State Building, while I have never technically visited nor entered her, is very fun to proclaim one’s residential proximity to. Walking outside, I am not at risk of running into anyone, and not because I live in a residential strollers-and-young-parents way, but because like, truly no one goes there without a work or errand related reason. All the loud, absurd, hectic New York you know, without the downtown overlappy social geography you (pretend to) hate.
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