[aaronatthedoublef]

Thanks Skeptic! All I have right now is white wheat. The recipe The recipe The recipe uses red wheat but KAF has always maintained that you can substitute red and white 1-for-1. Not ready to give up yet!

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I had NO oven spring in my whole wheat bread. It is pretty dense but has good flavor.

The recipe is here https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/classic-100-whole-wheat-bread-recipe

Not sure what I did wrong. It's pretty dense as the loaf is just under two pounds.

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Ahhh. This is what they used to call Sir Lancelot (maybe they still do.) I seen people use this for pizza and bagels.

Could you mix it with AP to lower the gluten? I haven't used AP in years. I use bread flour for AP flour in cookies and brownies and cakes.

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I made KAF 100% whole wheat bread with white whole wheat. It didn't rise much. I might try kneading with a machine next time to see if that gives it a higher rise.

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This week I made carnitas which we had in tacos two nights. I also made broccoli fried rice and then mixed in leftover carnitas one night.

I had four meals from carnitas and two from the fried rice. I think we're running low on rice. I can find basmati but might wife prefers jasmine. But she might have to eat basmati.

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Look great! Like BA, I am working up the nerve to make them. Three ounces of dough sounds good. Do you know how much the finished bagels weighed. This has become my new quest - to figure out how much mixed dough will yield after proofing and rising and baking.

It probably varies from recipe to recipe based on ingredients but I'd love to see a rule of thumb.

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Yes. We have made that legal here too.

My wife found 10 pounds of KAF bread flour online at Walmart today and it has been appearing briefly on store shelves here. So KAF must be restocking. Have not heard boo from BRM. I found a spare 5 pound bag of KAF bread flour in the basement today too!

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I think some stores just don't get it! Target and Costco are making people come to the store to buy stuff!

We have done more baking then normal. I made some breakfast cookies that used rolled oats and almond butter. We didn't have almond butter so we subbed in sunflower butter. NOT A GOOD SUBSTITUTION! I doubled the vanilla and cinnamon. Should have doubled the honey too (just a tablespoon). I was the only one who liked them.

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Just received an email from KAF today telling me my 3/14 order had shipped including WWW, pastry, and cake flour. Still no bread flour to be had.

[aaronatthedoublef]

My new favorite COVID-19 conspiracy theory is that it was started by dogs so their people would have to stay home and spend more time with them!

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I made carnitas last night. It was about three pounds of pork butt after trimming the fat.

First time I've made it in a while. I forgot how easy it is and how much I like it.

[aaronatthedoublef]

My friend just announced on Facebook that they will be turning to delivery and take out only. Most of the delivery services offer contact-less delivery.

But, most of the restaurants in town make most of their money off bar items and drinks cannot be delivered so this will put a big strain on their margins.

My friend with a liquor store has also started delivery.

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A little bit of positive in all this - my oldest and I played catch for the first time in years. We used to play catch and work on batting every day. He played catcher and I marked out the distance from home plate to second base and we practiced making the through.

Then he stopped playing and we stopped playing. And yesterday he pulled out one of our gloves so I pulled out another and we played catch.

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Colleges and universities began closing last week. Many of our friends now find themselves with kids at home they did not expect to have there. Plus, talking to a cashier at the local Whole Foods, Thursday night when the local public schools closed, the place went nuts. She said they would continue to restock shelves and they will stay open. So places like KAF and Bob's may have run out but they will restock their supply chain. It remains to be seen if this increased demand has peaked or if people will grab and hoard. At some point they will feel as if they have enough. WF had no eggs at one store and a few dozen at the second but they said they expect more to come in tomorrow. And the WF that was out of coffee Friday had restocked today...

Minneapolis schools are closing now which is new since I was there Thursday but things develop very quickly.

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It's interesting.. Many of you are in the Midwest and when I am in Minneapolis this does not seem to be a big deal. A few more people are working from home and a few more people are staying home when they feel sick but life was (as of Thursday) proceeding pretty normally.

Home in CT things are a lot more amped up. I think first with the NBA shutting down, then colleges, then public schools this has become suddenly serious for a lot of people. If I look at the map the NY Times sent this is heavily concentrated on the coasts and from New York to Washington is a big hot zone.

I have some flours coming from KAF and Bob's to supplement what I already have. I cannot find KAF bread flour anywhere although I can find the organic online. Costco had no paper towels or toilet paper but plenty of napkins. I had lots of toilet paper because I'd stocked up when it was on sale. I was waiting to do the same with paper towels but then the corona virus hit and Costco was wiped out. I still have about 18 rolls and Whole Foods had them yesterday and customers are limited to one package (three rolls).

My flights to Birmingham were cancelled and Delta was trying to rebook me but I decided to skip travel, at least this week.

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