Samartha Deva wrote:
> TG wrote:
>
> > I'd not be baking if it were.
>
> You are and it is - bacterial growth - exponential. One can calculate
> that if so inclined.

But I'm baking for my tea not the Royal Society. :-)

>
> > lol. But Jeez talk about
> > making things complicated.
>
> Not my intention - he was thinking and insisting it's quadratic, so I
> played with it.
>

I know.

> > You don't really need any algebra,
>
> To proof in words that it's not quadratic would be cumbersome, that was
> the objective. So, for this purpose, it was the adequate tool.

Well OK, but the proof is that quadratics is about two powers of X
bread baking isn't. : -) My partrner took mathematics at Kings college,
I asked him. lol. I couldn't remember. Quadratics aren't the kind of
thing I use everyday. :-)

> > though I
> > can see it will help you arrive at the solution if you have no
> > experience of the formula.
>
> > I don't know about you but I think this is much easier.
>
> I use my SdCalcs on my web site because the repetitive calculations
> started to suck. Fill in the blanks, hit the calc button, print it out,
> add notes as needed, put in folder, have record for later in case it
> turns out good. No need to do all the penciling you wrote down.
>
> http://samartha.net/SD/SDcalc04.html
> http://samartha.net/cgi-bin/SD-Dtm-3-03.cgi
>
> S

Hi, Samartha

I was afraid you might think that I was talking to you. I almost hit
the back button to start again. I asked my partner to check it over to
see if it looked to him that I was refuting you. I even moved the
"Samartha wrote:" to emphasise the point. He said it didn't so I went
ahead and posted. Thanks for the link to your site though. I have my
own excel file that I wrote to do the calcs for me when I want to
convert and play with the proportions. The calcs are so simple it isn't
worth switching on the computer and they're even easy enough to do in
my head if I keep the hydration rounded nicely I can guess the
difference between 60 & 70 if I need to. You also don't need any
division if you keep a track of the flour and keep it rounded to a
hundred grams.

I'm making bread it's not rocket science. :-) When I joked about the
pie chart it wasn't completely a joke. It is that simple and it is
linear, as you say. It only looks complicated to newbies because they
can't get past the % sign. Once you put that aside it all falls into
place as simple proportions, as you say, on a straight line graph. You
don't need to start mentioning exponential growths of lactobacilli to
defend your self, chucky egg. The attack is only in your mind.

TG