• 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉
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    13 hours ago

    90% of cooking is that golden Maillard reactions… only exception is bread, where people want the ones with less Maillard reactions

    • I recently saw a video about a japanese company that has started baking crustless bread by simply cooking it at a lower temp for a little longer, preventing the maillard reaction but still cooking the dough thoroughly.

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      9 hours ago

      Yeah, I don’t want the crispy OUTSIDE of the croissant nearly as much as I NEED to have the fluffy, chewy, glutinous inside of the croissant. Like, don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike it, but it’s definitely not the part I bought the pastry for.

      The sole exception is when there’s something else on the outside of the bread or pastry, at which point the turns table.

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        8 hours ago

        they compliment each other so much, a 100% crispy croissant would be a disappointment, and a 100% fluffy croissant would be gross.

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          6 hours ago

          As someone who has had both of those options, I think I’d genuinely take the 100% chewy insides over a regular croissant any day, but I accept that I am abnormal in that and other regards. After all, I’m talking to someone who is Nor Real.