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It should store quite well as long as it's sealed up well. I might wait until winter and try to make enough of this to last me the year (and get the bonus oven heat!) I'm about to move from Arizona to Minnesota, so anything to stay warm...

For those concerned with "additives", dead yeast cells have lots of glutathione which is a protein that is rich in L-Cysteine. This is why a lot of doughs made with poolish, old dough, starter, etc are easier to handle and develop faster. They've got all that dead yeast in them. You can also just buy deactivated yeast to relax your dough, which sounds more "natural". (Or, of course, you can make a really simple sponge just to kill it and get some dead yeast.)

Ok, excellent. I'll try cutting the amount and play around with it. Thanks!

I see a couple potential problems: 1) Gelatin melts at around 95*, which is closer to your proofing temperature than your baking temperature. 2) If the extra moisture is successfully bound by the gelatin, I don't know that you'd actually get many of the benefits of a high hydration dough. You might get steam in the oven, but would it do you any good if you didn't have a gluten network extensible enough to capture it?

The burnt cornmeal is just part of the fun! I saw a bakery in/around LA that had a shop vac fitted with an 8 foot metal tube at the end of the hose that they used to vacuum out their ovens! They had to wield it with work gloves on, but it worked beautifully.

I'm making it exactly the same as when I make it with shell eggs, so it shouldn't be the heat. Is this just in general or for choux specifically?

Does anyone have any experience using liquid eggs (like Reddi Eggs) in choux? I tried it in my choux recipe, which I've never otherwise had a problem with, and it did not work at all. I know that pasteurized liquid eggs have less emulsifying power, so I'm not sure if that was why it didn't work (didn't hold the butter in the paste). Does anyone have experience with this? I was also looking for things that liquid eggs just don't work for, but of course the manufacturers aren't likely to make a list of applications where their product fails...