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Do you pressure cook the beans?

@Norm Matthews I was about to mix flour and water together to make starter as per KAF but I like the looks of your method for making starter. 2 questions - what king of flour do you use and why 1.5 cups of flour to 1 cup water vs. 1 cup flour to 1 cup water? And i take it that you use instant yeast?

I have a three loaf baguette pan and I just checked and it too fits in the Anova. Are those copper sheet pans?

Thank you. I've read the recipe and the sourdough starter instructions and will try it.

I have had zero luck maintaining a sourdough starter. I have tried a number of times with the same result. I still make bread, but not with sourdough starter.

Thank you. So far, I have found one combo that meets our needs and that is the Dacor. The microwave has a capacity of 1.9 cubic feet, slightly smaller than the 2.1 cubic feet we currently have, and the oven is slightly larger at 4.8 cubic feet compared to our current 4.1 cubic feet. We are going to look at it tomorrow. But, I personally don't care if we end up with say, a Miele oven and a Panasonic microwave, so we will look at what other possible combinations. I had a cursory look at the article you linked to, I'll give it a better read before we go. I'll also look at a few other review sites.

My microwave died the other day and I need to buy a new one. My husband suggested we also replace our wall oven with a new one at the same time as it too is over 20 years old and apt to fail sooner rather than later. Both are/were GE Profile. I said I'd be in for replacing the wall oven but only if it could be a steam oven. He said okay so we've been looking around. I'm wondering if anyone has experience with either a combo or a wall unit they would recommend? The steam oven would not be plumbed to a water source/drain, it would have a refillable tank inside the oven. Any and all suggestions appreciated.

I'll taste them before I freeze them and let you know. Added: i was going to do them in the microwave and dang, in the middle of the first one my microwave oven died. They are now all on sheet pans in the oven.

Yesterday we went to an local farm gate which we frequent to buy squash. We came home with some that were familiar to us, some we'd never heard of. Today they'll be cooked up and frozen in meal-sized portions.

Thanks's to Amazon's quick delivery service, I have the book!

I just ordered the book.

Strange. I clicked through the book on Amazon and no recipes were shown.

Thank you @blue_dolphin. I have Spotify and it looks like I can watch them there. I'll report back.

I clicked on the link but the intro kept repeating, so I couldn't watch it. Too bad as I'm interested in this.

I will never again put a smoked pork shoulder in the slow cooker in the afternoon intending to have some for dinner, ask John to carve it up come said dinner time, only to find I'd forgotten to plug it in.