Author: Wang Lu
Source: material life reference (ID: wzshck)
When the epidemic is over, cake shops will close down, because we will do it. ——From a considerable number of people in the circle of friends, super confident inflated speech.
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When her third attempt to buy low gluten flour failed, Arlene realized that in the winter when most people were living in passive houses, the baking fire was on fire.
Another signal is that every wechat group she added, from the college students' meeting to her mother's shopping list in the same city, and even the stock market group that has been quiet for a long time, are all talking about how to make pastry cakes and competing to show off her successful works.
Arlene has also learned to bake before, bought baking books, bought kitchen scales, flour screens, egg beaters and other tools, and has seriously done it for a while. But baking, after all, is a "hard 3 hours, 2 minutes after eating" job. With the work getting busier and busier, plus raising children, books and equipment have accumulated dust for many years.
Unexpectedly, an unexpected epidemic gave her a chance to return to the Jianghu.
By convention, novices learn to bake, or cookie, or Qifeng. Arlene had already passed Qifeng, but after several years, she decided to be cautious and start with cookies.
In the eyes of the whole family, the cookies came out. But when she opened the oven, she felt like she was buzzing, her head was all big.
Although it's not like some ghost netizens make cookies like a lump of X, her cookies don't look like what they should be
The biscuits you make should be eaten with tears. Fortunately, although there is a long list of cookies, the taste is not bad. The whole family had a clean meal, and Arlene was full of energy again.
For now, the biggest obstacle is not getting back to work, but another sad reality: butter and cream are out of stock.
It is said that every girl has a baking dream. Judging from the grand occasion of purchasing raw materials, this long life at home has undoubtedly rekindled many people's dreams.
And baking dreams are not limited to ladies. On the one hand, it's not unusual for the modern men to learn how to make snacks; on the other hand, even if they are not interested in baking, they, as idle labor force, are also likely to contribute to their girlfriend / wife's baking dream.
My friends circle the cookies made by a straight man Mr. Z.
The level of photographing can confirm the purity of steel straight man ↓
In addition to learning to distinguish chives and leeks when buying vegetables, to distinguish rape and oilwheat vegetables, the majority of male compatriots should also know which kind of starch is used to make pearls in pearl milk tea and how to pass the protein.
In particular, the protein. If the family has not bought an electric egg beater before, then men are basically responsible for this work. After all, it's individual work to send. Whoever beats knows.
So the eight immortals across the sea show their magic power, the folk wisdom is surging, all kinds of hard core soil laws emerge in endlessly.
For example, there is no eggbeater at home, but many people have electric drills, which can be easily dismissed with a little modification.
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Without the electric drill, at least there is a blower, plus a self-made small wind car, you can achieve high-end wind drive.
(video Cr: @ Tianxiu BOT the same below)
There are all kinds of wild hard nuclear equipment beyond imagination. When you look at this situation, you may feel that there is no essential difference between mixing cement and protein.
The biggest brain hole, of course, is the self proclaimed "crazy to make cake" mother. In order to get rid of protein, not only a sewing machine, but also "child labor".
When you see those full and attractive homemade cakes in your circle of friends, you will not think of what they have experienced.
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In other words, everyone has a dream of baking, but for some born kitchen killers, the dream is probably black and may also have a paste smell.
If there is something more pleasant than cake, I am afraid it is a cake rolling scene on the circle of friends and tiktok.
Among them, the more common schools are inflation school, collapse school, hematemesis school and black charcoal school.
Bloated pie, as the name suggests, is that bread or cake is twice or several times larger than originally expected. If it wasn't for the size of the oven to limit the growth space, the TAS might have expanded even higher.
Corresponding to the expansionists is the collapse group.
Collapse is probably a setback that every beginner will encounter when learning to make Qifeng cake. For example, when I was blind and confident, I insisted on manual dismissal, but I broke my bone quickly and still failed to dismiss.
Then I learned a lesson and bought an electric egg beater. After connecting the power, I opened the door of the new world. I got complacent and lost my mind.
As for the form of collapse, cake has its own ideas. There are Mediterranean collapse, irregular collapse, as for the collapse in this way, it's just art ↓
Hematemesis is common in advanced players. Qi Feng has been captured, and the cheesecake has been made to look good, so he begins to challenge the dessert with stuffing. As a result, the accident happened.
And the one who is most likely to leave psychological shadow is the black carbon sect.
If the fire in Chinese food is a kind of Kung Fu that can only be said, then the oven temperature in Western food is also a metaphysics.
In a reliable baking course, you will only be given a reference temperature range. The specific temperature should be adjusted depends on the face of your own oven.
As for how to determine the spleen of your oven, you can only rely on talent, experience and a little luck. In other words, for those who lack talent and are unlucky, it depends on one word: try.
In the course of the experiment, it's not a big deal to bake or paste the ingredients once or twice, to bake a bad baking plate, or even to blacken the whole oven. Those scorched marks that were wiped out by crying are medals that we have been defeated repeatedly.
It's hard for talented players to understand my frustrations. I brushed a lot of videos and recorded every key point. I found that the gap between myself and baking bloggers was mainly in hands.
(video Cr: @ burning video)
There's a popular video series on YouTube called "50 people try to..." That is to say, it's not too difficult to find 50 passers-by to do something, such as cutting avocado, grilling hamburgers, frying eggs, etc. among them, the common killer operation in the kitchen is enough to give a long sigh of relief: it seems that I'm not the most stupid.
For example, whipping cream with fresh milk is very simple: pour milk, add sugar and butter, stir. But for kitchen killers, pouring milk can screw up.
(video Cr: epicurious the same below)
If we didn't see it with our own eyes, it would be hard for us to imagine that someone would be so talented and dare to send cream in a glass bottle.
Most puzzling of all, several participants poured the whipped cream into a glass bottle and shook it vigorously. In the middle, the elder brother said optimistically that it would be better to refrigerate it in the refrigerator.
Do not imitate the above behavior. The following is the correct answer for the professional chef demonstration.
One of the highlights of the video said, "whenever I feel like I can't do anything, I'll watch the video and feel better.".
In the same way, we can also comfort ourselves: as long as we're not stupid enough, as long as we work hard, one day, my baking dream will not be stale.
Tail.
But the reality is bone felt. With the resumption of work, the days of endless homestead and leisure and boredom have come to an end. It is a rare luxury to spend hours kneading dough and beating eggs in this era.
After the epidemic, of course, the cake shop will not close down. Even if we all learned how to make cakes, we must return to the past life. Flour sifters and silica gel knives will return to the corner of the cupboard, and low gluten flour will not escape the fate of expiration.
Why do we like baking? There are many answers. Some people say that biscuits and cakes are happy snacks. When it comes to baking, you will naturally think of sweetness and joy.
It is also said that the baking process itself is enough to make people happy: knead the well mixed materials, expand slowly in the oven, show attractive colors and fragrance, such a picture, think about it, feel satisfied.
For most people, what they yearn for is not baking itself, but a kind of leisure and slow-paced life style.
As for whether the cake is sweet and delicious or burnt and dark, it is not so important.
*The first picture is purchased from Vision China, and other pictures are from video and network screenshots