Plywood for the main box (3/4" sides, 1/4" back, rabbet and dado joints). Cut the door 1" too narrow so I added a handle from cedar scrap. Shelves and sheet pan brackets are reclaimed bed slats, planed. Window hole is routed with plexiglass insert, my first time doing any significant router work.

First bake came out well:

challah

The brackets for the baking sheet have a cutout to accommodate two bowls. My goal was either two bowls or two baking sheets.

open with cookie sheet

open with bowls

An obvious improvement would be to install an under-counter outlet so the cord is less prominent.

Heating is from a 45W incandescent bulb (which was the hardest part to find). It’s in the top of an old desk lamp. Adding an 8x8" pan of hot water kept the humidity high so I didn’t have to cover the rising bread. Temperature/humidity logging is from an SHT30 (plus two DS18B20s) running Tasmota and reportig to HomeAssistant, viewed in Grafana. I expected to have to cycle the light, but just keeping it always on seems to give me the right temperature range.

temperature and humidity graph

  • tate@lemmy.sdf.org
    16·
    3 days ago

    English is an amazingly complex language. Sometimes when words seem to coincide, it’s just a coincidence (see what I did there!).

    When speaking of evidence of a claim, proof is a noun, and is related to the verb prove. When allowing the microbial cultures in a dough to develop before baking, proof is a verb. The gerund is proofing, and what you have made is a proofing box.

    Your proofing box is excellent and I am envious. On the other hand, now I really want a proving box. I imagine that I can put ideas in there, wait some time, and the see if they are proved or not!

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
    4·
    3 days ago

    That’s awesome!

    I can also imagine you contemplating the horror of having to drill a hole in that beautiful end-grain counter to route the power. If I may suggest something that you’ve probably already thought of a solution for: routing power from an electrical outlet for this case is not hard. You could add another outlet under the counter behind the proofing box, and chain it to the upper one. If you’ve never done it, it can sound overwhelming, but it really is very easy - much easier if you can temporarily remove the proofing box.