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The bizarre culture (pun intended) around sourdough is maddening. The obsession over the "ear," bannetons, lames, daily feeding: all bro club bullshit. This is the bread humans have been making for millennia; the only tools you need are one hot rock and one not-hot rock.
Lul reminds me of the coffee bros. With their 3.4 sec at 666 degrees vs 8.9 sec at 69 degrees pour or whatever they call it.
It's the exact same phenomenon. Surely astroturf bullshit started by whomever is selling the useless tools.
That and I think there's a fair bit of elitism as well. Everyone is always trying to one up each other and since you can only go so expensive with the beans and equipment the next step is to be pretentious with the prep.
elitism* pretentious* 🙃
Thanks bud, I be struggling here.
The struggle is real, mang
There is a point of diminishing returns with coffee brewing, and you can quickly spend obscene amounts of money for infinitesimally small increases in quality of the brew.
However, a few hundred dollars worth of investment in a grinder and basic equipment, and you'll never again be able to choke down the sour, burnt tar they attempt to pass off as coffee in stores and restaurants.
Do you even sour, bro?
There are some serious differences between a badly made loaf and a well done one though. You never stop learning. But yeah, it's easy to get something passable.
None of the differences have anything to do with the Bro Method.
Uh, I must admit I don't know about that bro method.