Roy Basan wrote:
>
> "Steve B" > wrote in message news:<PjZpb.79176$275.223106@attbi_s53>...
> > Dick,
> >
> > Did you perhaps mean pH < ~4.5? A pH > ~4.5 can bring you into the neutral
> > and alkaline ranges.
> >
> > - Steve Brandt
> >
> > "Dick Adams" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >
> > ... That is done by being very careful to keep the pH low (> ~ 4.5) in the
> > several
> > preferments and in the dough.
>
> A pH or minus 4.5 or -4.5?


Dick and Steve used the tilde character (meaning 'approximately'), not the minus. Perhaps the font on your news reader does not show the difference well. I'd recommend using one of the courier fonts for reading newsgroups.
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