• Boomer Humor Doomergod
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    14 hours ago

    Not really. In fact, due to pressure and temperature variances waiting until the dough has risen by double is better than using a fixed time. And you can smell when bread is done.

    They baked without clocks for millennia.

    • dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      14 hours ago

      They did, but ‘baker’ was like one of the highest skill jobs around for most of that. ‘risen by double’ is a rough rule for some kinds of leavening.

      you can smell when

      Sometimes. Often with especially thick loaves the cooking isn’t done until a while after it’s left the oven as internal heat continues to disperse.