Mark Bittman
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Podcast Appearances
And he made my bread, quote unquote, my bread, twice as good as I was making it.
So then I was like, okay, well, I'm out.
I'm like, that's not what I do anymore.
Why do you think he was able to do that?
I mean, some of this is...
He can read where the dough is at.
He's like, a little more salt, a little more water, whatever.
He can see those things.
We can all measure to the precise gram, but you still need, like, one day this flour is going to absorb more water than another.
One day it's going to behave differently.
One day my starter is going to be livelier.
He's not doing it by rote.
He can see this stuff.
And even though he's producing hundreds, thousands maybe of loaves of bread at a time, he can see the batch.
He can see what's going on there.
And when he did it on a small scale for With Me,
I was like, man, this guy's on a whole other level.
Of course he is.
I mean, he's a professional.