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On Mar 7, 12:28 pm, Boron Elgar > wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 09:39:00 -0800 (PST), Will
>
> > wrote:
>
> >Mike Romain wrote:

>
> >> You know I had a couple women bakers reading over my shoulder the other
> >> day and they just about ****ed themselves laughing when they started
> >> reading about all these percents and micrograms of flour, etc... They
> >> mumbled something about 'only men' between laughs....

>
> >The baking instructor (master baker) at my son's culinary school is a
> >WOMAN. Care to guess what happens to students who wing it?

>
> >Hint... she does not laugh.

>
> I assume your son is not going to culinary school to hone his skills
> purely for baking in his home kitchen.
>
> Boron


Fair assumption. But he's learning that I am not the measuring Nazi.
Which is to say, I'm not doing the calculations to balance flour temp.
and water temp. to make dough at precisely 75 degrees. :-)

I just didn't want Mike R. to think that men measure and woman
ponder.