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I finally got out a glass custard cup, a baking cup, and spooned some sourdough into it. I nuked it for about 40 seconds, watching for the steam to first increase and then decrease. I took it out, waited a couple minutes, peeled off the paper (note: yep, we’ve got another release problem to solve), split it open and took a look at it.
First off: obviously no browning/crisping. I’ve used a microwave. I know how this works.
Second: that was the correct cooking time. Moist but cooked texture.
Third: beautiful structure and lots of various sized holes.
Taste was exactly as expected.
Because the structure is so good, I think it might survive in a toaster (definitely in a toaster oven, but less sure about it surviving a slot toaster). I am now seriously thinking about what I could do to come up with a ring or similar type item, usable in a toaster oven, to get a flatter but larger baked object that might better survive in a slot toaster.
ETA:
Last night, I poked around to see what 2023 had to offer in the way of decluttering. I downloaded two samples, one for How to Keep House While Drowning, which is a really amazingly awesome title. I has some very real issues with the beginning of the book, because I feel like it reinforces a lot of horrifying ideas _and also_ I recognize that like many self-help books, that section is there to validate powerfully the target audience. I am not the target audience, so I do not feel validated (opposite of true! I feel powerfully _in_validated. But also, I am okay with that. I know I am nosey-parkering into where I do not belong).
This tantalizing sentence, however, caused me to open up the browser and write a background paragraph just so I could quote the sentence.
“When you view care tasks as moral, the motivation for completing them is often shame.”
This is a very true statement! And one that someone with her background is uniquely position to articulate extremely clearly. Honestly, this sentence justifies reading the whole book, because of course there might be another sentence half as good that would also justify reading the whole book.
And also. The truth of that observation says really a lot about morality, at least the way morality functions for many people, much of the time.
A bit further along:
“Laundry is morally neutral.” Heh. That’s great!
Description of evening kitchen clearing up as a way to make life easier for her husband the next morning when he was the one to get up and feed the kids breakfast followed by, “I deserve that exact same kindness.” There are a variety of ways this could have gone, and I can’t say that I totally love where it did go, as much as at least a couple other options, but I entirely agree with this:
“Next time you are trying to talk yourself into doing a care task …replace …with “It would be such a kindness to future me if I were to get up right now and do …”
10/10 can confirm! Highly recommend!
It’s hella easier to motivate to clean each subsequent day, too, because you remember how nice it was that morning (fresh reward memory!), and after a while, the habit rolls along by itself very, very, very powerfully and the conversation just doesn’t happen much anymore. Except, you know, when I wake up after being asleep for a half hour or so and go, hey, I forgot to feed the sourdough, and have to go downstairs, feed the sourdough, and then go back to bed. Fortunately, that only happens when I genuinely have forgotten, so there’s that.
“Sometimes you may not get up even with the change..at least you can be nice to yourself. No one ever shamed themselves into better mental health.” True! This book is full of brilliant sentences!
First off: obviously no browning/crisping. I’ve used a microwave. I know how this works.
Second: that was the correct cooking time. Moist but cooked texture.
Third: beautiful structure and lots of various sized holes.
Taste was exactly as expected.
Because the structure is so good, I think it might survive in a toaster (definitely in a toaster oven, but less sure about it surviving a slot toaster). I am now seriously thinking about what I could do to come up with a ring or similar type item, usable in a toaster oven, to get a flatter but larger baked object that might better survive in a slot toaster.
ETA:
Last night, I poked around to see what 2023 had to offer in the way of decluttering. I downloaded two samples, one for How to Keep House While Drowning, which is a really amazingly awesome title. I has some very real issues with the beginning of the book, because I feel like it reinforces a lot of horrifying ideas _and also_ I recognize that like many self-help books, that section is there to validate powerfully the target audience. I am not the target audience, so I do not feel validated (opposite of true! I feel powerfully _in_validated. But also, I am okay with that. I know I am nosey-parkering into where I do not belong).
This tantalizing sentence, however, caused me to open up the browser and write a background paragraph just so I could quote the sentence.
“When you view care tasks as moral, the motivation for completing them is often shame.”
This is a very true statement! And one that someone with her background is uniquely position to articulate extremely clearly. Honestly, this sentence justifies reading the whole book, because of course there might be another sentence half as good that would also justify reading the whole book.
And also. The truth of that observation says really a lot about morality, at least the way morality functions for many people, much of the time.
A bit further along:
“Laundry is morally neutral.” Heh. That’s great!
Description of evening kitchen clearing up as a way to make life easier for her husband the next morning when he was the one to get up and feed the kids breakfast followed by, “I deserve that exact same kindness.” There are a variety of ways this could have gone, and I can’t say that I totally love where it did go, as much as at least a couple other options, but I entirely agree with this:
“Next time you are trying to talk yourself into doing a care task …replace …with “It would be such a kindness to future me if I were to get up right now and do …”
10/10 can confirm! Highly recommend!
It’s hella easier to motivate to clean each subsequent day, too, because you remember how nice it was that morning (fresh reward memory!), and after a while, the habit rolls along by itself very, very, very powerfully and the conversation just doesn’t happen much anymore. Except, you know, when I wake up after being asleep for a half hour or so and go, hey, I forgot to feed the sourdough, and have to go downstairs, feed the sourdough, and then go back to bed. Fortunately, that only happens when I genuinely have forgotten, so there’s that.
“Sometimes you may not get up even with the change..at least you can be nice to yourself. No one ever shamed themselves into better mental health.” True! This book is full of brilliant sentences!