Post by @timixretroplays@digipres.club

@timixretroplays@digipres.club 8 mo. ago

In my search for the perfect #jaffle, I turned to Japan for help - shokupan, or milk bread, is made in square metal pans. Late last year I acquired a Tiger Crown model 2375 bread mold, which is capable of baking precise 12cm loaf-cubes of bread.

This is the correct tool for homemade jaffle bread. It fits perfectly, there's zero mess in the iron, and the jaffles snap apart flawlessly.

This is ISO Standard Australian white bread, and the recipe needs tweaking, but this is a milestone. #Australia

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A photo of a Tiger Crown 2375 bread loaf tin. It's a hollow steel box that is perfectly cubic in shape, with a slide-on lid.

A photo of a small loaf of bread that has been baked in the cube tin. Two visible sides are perfectly flat with unusually sharp edges, and the top is a little rounded and deflated in the middle. It sits on a cutting board on a kitchen bench.

A photo of two jaffles in a jaffle iron. THey are toasted sandwiches made with the square bread, and each has a diagonal cut down the middle. A very small amount of spaghetti in tomato sauce is poking out of the edge of one of the sandwiches.

A photo of the toasted jaffles on a plate. They have been split down the middle to form four triangles, which sit in an untidy pile on the plate.

#jaffle #australia

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Tim 🎮

@timixretroplays@digipres.club 5 mo. ago

Update: it looks like I spawned a 12cm cube in my kitchen and assigned it the "bread" texture.

A 300g premixed bag aaalmost reaches the top of the pan, so maybe I need to try 350g next time. Was hoping this would work as it's half a premixed packet from a box, but it looks like I'll have to do slightly more work than that.

This may yet prove totally sufficient however - the cube is currently cooling and will meet its fate later this evening.

A photo of a freshly baked loaf of bread, cooling on a rack. It's almost a perfect cube in shape and has a deliciously browned crust.

Tim 🎮

@timixretroplays@digipres.club 5 mo. ago

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A photo of six thick slices of freshly baked white bread on a cooling rack. One slice is standing up on end, demonstrating its thickness and rigidity.

A photo of a partially assembled jaffle in a jaffle iron. There's a slice of bread which is almost covering one half of the plate, a slice of cheese on the bread, and an amount of Heinz spaghetti in sauce on top of that.

A photo of the fully cooked and assembled jaffle. It's a square of bread with a sharp diagonal slash through it, showing it's been pressed roughly in half by the jaffle iron. Cheese and spaghetti sauce has oozed out of most sides and the jaffle iron will require some cleaning.

5 months later

Tim 🎮

@timixretroplays@digipres.club 8 hr. ago

My bread is a cube, your argument is invalid.

Turns out a 300g flour recipe will make a perfectly adequate 12cm cube of bread if you actually let it rise for long enough - this thing sat in the cube tin for about 90 minutes in the early spring sun.

I got one unnervingly perfect square of bread out of it before it started to bend under the force of being cut. Having solved the shape question, I now need to upgrade my bread knife to one that actually cuts.

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A photo of a cubic loaf of bread sitting on a kitchen cutting board, near a cooling rack. It is an oddly perfect cube with light golden sides and darker brown edges and corners.

A photo of an unsettlingly perfectly square slice of bread on a cutting board. There's no curvy edges or obvious top side to it.

Misty

@misty@digipres.club 36 min. ago

@timixretroplays Wow, that really is perfectly cubic huh

Tim 🎮

@timixretroplays@digipres.club 6 hr. ago

I was *not* expecting Mastodon to love cube-bread this much. Hello everyone

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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange 6 hr. ago

@timixretroplays

I was not expecting Mastodon to love cube-bread this muc

You combined home cooking and platonic solids. How would you not expect that to be popular here?

Tim 🎮

@timixretroplays@digipres.club 6 hr. ago

@david_chisnall I'll leave the bread-sphere for someone else to make

Advanced Persistent Teapot

@http_error_418@hachyderm.io 5 hr. ago

@timixretroplays @david_chisnall that one's for the theoretical physicists

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange 4 hr. ago

@http_error_418 @timixretroplays

I spent a bit of time a few years ago trying to come up with a process for creating spherical pizzas in freefall.

I did not come up with a plausible way of eating a spherical pizza.

Steffi

@stefanie@social.anoxinon.de 3 hr. ago

@david_chisnall @http_error_418 @timixretroplays spherical pizza sounds amazing. It maximizes the topping to dough ratio and allows for a molten cheese core.

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange 2 hr. ago

@stefanie @http_error_418 @timixretroplays

I know, right? It's the one thing that would make me think an orbital hotel + restaurant was a good idea. Except I have no idea about how to eat it.