"Jeff Miller" > wrote in message
news:mailman.1.1155512027.25523.rec.food.sourdough @mail.otherwhen.com...
>I picked up a banneton when I first started baking, but soon
>abandoned it for a bowl with a well
> oiled and floured old cloth napkin inside. I like the shape
> better, and you can't beat the price ....
Yep. Same here. Got several of those ~$30 bannetons, cuz folks
made it sound like they were absolutely indispensable for making
bread. I soon found out different and haven't used 'em for years.
I make everything free-form and don't even use a bowl & cloth. And,
wonder-of-all-wonders, it continues to look and taste like SD
bread...(:-{})!

Finally, sold 'em last month to some lucky baker for about a buck at
our garage sale when we sold the house (just wait'll he finds out
that he wuz "ripped off" for a buck...(:-o)!). Sold him the
*absolutely vital* 10-speed, 3-beater, 500-watt dough mixer, *most
necessary* digital scales, *indispensable* digital thermometers and
all of that other techno-rot as well...(:-o)!).


L8r all,
Dusty
Who continues to hand make great SD bread by hand, out of a plastic
bowl, by volume, baking into a cold oven sans minerals of any
kind...(:-o)!
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