R E KToday's the day.
Going to try solar-cooking some bread for the first time ☀️ 🍞
the result: https://merveilles.town/@neauoire/110346250694057921
Success! Now the baguette is cooling down, while I threw the other half of the recipe to cook outside. Once the first baguette is cool we'll give it a taste and let you all know how it was, texture wise.
Devine Lu Linvega (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image 45 minutes in, we flipped it around, cooked it in the sun for another 15 minutes. And it's absolutely perfect. That means that this summer we can make bread on demand, without using fuel, and without adding heat to the habitat.
So I made a full recipe and cooked the bread in two batches (didnt want it to expand too much and get stuck in the tube). Took 1 hour per baguette.
We had a taste, and the texture is great! We're so pleased~! I don't usually bake in the summer because it takes too much propane, so this is very exciting.
There you have it, solar-cooked bread.
Solar cooking notes, for those interested:
https://100r.co/site/solar_evacuated_tube_cooking.html and
https://100r.co/site/solar_cooking.html
https://100r.co/site/solar_evacuated_tube_cooking.html and
https://100r.co/site/solar_cooking.html
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Tendigits@rek I would have never guessed that this was possible, let alone look that tasty
Maša Kepic@rek This is genuinely amazing
@masakepic Yea im shocked at how well it worked, expected something along the lines of steamed bread. I didnt expect it to have a bit of crunch to it.
Brian Boucheron@rek it looks great! do you have to take care to keep it from hitting the sides/top of the tube or is that ok?
this reminds me of a Pyrex “bread tube” that I have, which is just a tube of glass (with a wire frame to keep it from rolling around) which you butter up and bake a perfectly tubular loaf in (in a standard oven). it’s weird and probably from the 70s.
@beardicus I wrapped the dough in parchment paper so it wouldn't stick :>.
Waylon Jeggings@rek tube 👏 bread 👏
Robert Weißgraeber🇪🇺@rek can you write a blog post or a gist somewhere with full instructions?
@rw007 Too early for that, I'll consider it when I've solar-cooked more bread, this is only my first try.
nomand@rek amazing! very interested to try it some time in the future! (the bread and the oven!)
Thomasorus@rek OK but how is THE CRUST??? Does it make a nice satisfying sound when breaking the bread? 🔥
@thomasorus crust is pretty good, exceeds my expectations. Not saying you'd find this in a bakery, but there is a crunch to it, esp at the ends cause the tube temp is higher at one end than the other (i had to flip the bread around once during cooking).
poetaster@rek brilliant!
Lewis Weil@rek that is an incredible baguette extra incredible that it was made in a solar tube!
Devine Lu Linvega@rek That's absolutely amazing!