As I try to zoom in on my perfect Neapolitan pizza dough I wanted to do some experimenting around using bread flour versus 00 flour. I had previously used 00 and had good results with it – however with my new recipe I had a couple of rounds of pizza that just didn’t get the…
Sharpening Victory?
I’m one of those people that when I get stuck on something I just can’t move on. It bothers me that I can’t figure something out. So this weekend I will admit that I was more than ecstatic to finally get an end grain shaving like the one above. I’ve spent the better part of…
Scary Sharpening – More thoughts
If not obvious – I’ve been having a sort of reconciliation around my thoughts on sharpening. Sharpening woodworking tools has always been something that I thought I just had to know how to do in order to do hand tool woodworking. That is – I had to know how to do it – I didn’t…
Prototyping a mount for the Torchio Model B
I talked about my new pasta extruder, the Torchio Model B, in a post awhile back. Im in love with the press, but mounting the Torchio is something that takes some consideration. The presses are traditionally bolted to a dedicated bench used just for pasta extrusion. While that sounds nice, I wasn’t able to sell…
Flattening Spyderco Stones
As I talked about before I invested in some Spyderco sharpening stones after reading Derek Cohen talk about them on this blog. To be perfectly honest, the idea of having something that doesn’t need to be replaced is top of mind for me. I don’t like buying disposable things (although I might have changed my…
Low Angle Jack plane blade woes
As part of my project to build a holder for my router planes by hand I found myself in a position where I needed to plane some end grain. When doing that my normal go to is my low angle jack plane. I’ve used it with great success in the past on larger pieces but…
Getting started with Hydroponics
I made a recipe the other week that called for fresh basil. While looking for it at the grocery store I noted that buying a potted basil plant was actually cheaper than buying a package of cut basil. Upon brining it home I thought that I should try and keep it alive with the hope…
More sharpening discussion
I mentioned in my last post about sharpening that I was revisiting my strategy. Namely I was looking to improve a process I hadn’t spent much time on at all. After much reading I came across Derek Cohen’s blogs and articles and started moving in that direction. I was so happy about finding his blog…
Errata for Elements of Pizza
So it turns out that the error in the recipe I talked about here was in fact an error in the book. Im glad they actually responded to me about it. Was sort of hoping for a prize… you know…. for finding the error. Just kidding……