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 Yoshi's Log Stardate -299515.94 Or July 8th our Grand opening.

Gluetentag everyone.

    So I forgot to take the temperature and humidity readings for the day. Honestly the excitement and anxiety of the day made it a bit of a blur. As for the Bake it went nearly flawlessly with over 100 loaves of our recipes made. Except for burnt a few we sold everything so that's a win. Don't worry they weren't that bad and we gave those away anyway. Although it will take a while to let go of the entire double batch of Cobbler loaf we (I) burnt while test baking. Anywho... 

    What can i say to start my part of the (B)log. Well Thank you reader. You probably stumbled upon this while checking out our website after trying our bread. I hope you liked it. Thank you Rusty for your patience and guidance. You are right beside me living my dream every day. Man we did it. Thank you Rose and Kassy our unwavering partners that can deal with the long nights and carb comas induced by recipe testing. Your support is the reason we can do this. But i better get to the crumb.

    I first want to introduce the players in this bread ballet. Yoshi (that's me but you knew that), and Rusty are friends that share a love of bread. My knowledge is limited on this subject but the passion is there.  Rusty took a leap of faith to pair up with me and start this business together. We are a great team and get better every day. We are committed to making affordable, healthy fresh bread. We have our tireless helpers the Captain (mixer), Gwen (refrigerator), Mr. Jiggles (slicer) and the ovens. (we are sure the ovens have names but are unable to communicate with them beyond grunts and banging but we will get there). 

    It is also important to speak directly to the millions of little bread helpers that raise that crust daily. Yuri is our Poolish friend that works tirelessly in 3 different recipes. we refresh him daily. Then we have DAY. separately miniscule but together they are mighty. DAY can be picky and lazy to wake up but we just feed them some sugar and that usually perks them right up. And now to Carl Jr our Sourdough starter. His is a sad tale. He knows he was adopted by two strange men but cant remember anything about Carl Sr. other than that he died. He is always hungry and growing to gain the strength to find out what happened to Carl Sr.  Unbeknownst to him Carl Sr. killer is actually me (Yoshi). It was an accident of course but I don't sleep more than a few hours a night always worrying if Jr will avenge his fathers death. To be fair Carl was a great starter but i forgot him in the back of the fridge , completely my fault. He did make great bread See below for proud poppa pictures.






Oh look at that ear!!!! pretty proud of that actually. 


Well that was our introduction. I probably missed a bunch so here is a picture of my cat as a consolation prize. I mean you made it to the end of my rambling so you deserve it. Your welcome.


See you tomorrow same Bread Time same Bread Channel!!!



Yohi's Log Supplemental

I was so tired i realized i did take notes. It was 26.2'C inside with 59% humidity and 18.8'C 93% hum. outside. the ovens stay hot for hours pouring heat into the space but we are getting used to it. We realized the raisin bread needs more DAY and everything else looks great. The rise during ferment is spectacular. Thank you and be good.



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