Boron Elgar wrote:
> Tell me what you make of these, then, Samartha. You will be better
> able to delve into the regular pages far better than I. They sound
> fascinating, though I have a feeling it would not be easy to get them
> to send a couple over here.
> http://web282.km1002.keymachine.de/b...single&lang=en
>
> Boron
The prices are definitely better and that Company seems to be set up for
international ship- and payments. If you need help with this, email via
backchannel.
The peculiarity with the Germans is that the credit card payments are
not so common. What seems common is to ship and the receiver will pay
when s/he got the merchandise, usually by transfer from one
(German/European) bank account to the other - that's like writing a
check, only that it's an order to your (the buyer's) bank to transfer
the money to the account. Or - you give your bank information and the
vendor debits your bank account. But that works only within Europe.
I just got a few items from there - the plastic forms and the stainless
steel pans with cover:
http://www.hobbybaecker.de/hobbyshop/de/dept_70.html
For me it was easy because I talked to the lady in Bavarian. The Company
is about 50 miles from where I grew up.
The shipping was 62.87 Eur, the stuff was about 11 lb (without
packaging) and I got it within two weeks or so.
The plastic works better for me because it can swim whereas the wooden
baskets need to be put in a plastic bowl. The fourth picture on this
page:
http://samartha.net/SD/procedures/DM3/
shows the dough in a bowl. So far, I put the basket into the bowl and
the dough into the basket. The temperature transfer from the water to
the dough went through:
- plastic bowl
- air between inner wall of plastic bowl and basket
- wood of basket to dough
With the plastic bakets it's direct - water - plastic - dough, I did it
the first time today and got a better rise. The temperature tranfer and
control is just excellent.
Well, that's my plastic basket story. I think the trick with the baskets
- plastic or "cane" is to shake the dough loose every once and a while
so it does not stick - and flour the dough. I haven't found a good
solution for wetter rye doughs. So far, I put them with plastic foil in
a basket.
Samartha
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