Author: Tony Dalmyn
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Bread Machines
Introduction Purpose Bread machines came on the market about 1986, and became popular outside Japan by the late 1990s. My first bread machine was a Black & Decker B1561. I replaced it with a Panasonic SD-YD250 in 2016, and a Zojirushi Virtuoso (the 2016 model, the BB-PAC20) in 2020 [Updated]. A bread machine is a…
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Nutrition Labels
Labels Sodium The idea of a low sodium diet is to consume less sodium. Context In the view of corporate executives in the capitalist economy, product labels are part of the narrative of a product – it is space paid for by the manufacturer . Industry likes to control the narrative. Miller Lite, in commercials “tastes…
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B%, Flour, Water, Yeast, Salt – Bread & Bread machines
Flour Flour, whether refined and milled fine or coarse, is the ground product of grains. It contains plant proteins and starch. Starch is the carbohydrate in bread, and the ingredient thing that makes it food. Starch consisted of complex molecules of glucose and more complex sugars. The molecules react when exposed to water. Starch begins…
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Dry Yeast
Introduction Dry yeast for baking bread in ovens (at home) is normally dry baker’s yeast. In 1999, Beth Hensperger, in her Bread Bible said that the yeast on the market for the home baker included cakes of fresh yeast and dry yeasts: The use of fresh yeast (yeast cakes or compressed yeast) in home baking…
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Cookbooks and Salt
Dietary and culinary theories abounded – and still persist, that salt is adds flavour and should be used in cooking nutritious and tasty food. Salt has been added to food as necessary preservative e.g. ham, sausage, olives, cheese, soy and other sauces. It has become a normal practice to put some salt into any dish,…
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Salt
Open-ended This post is dated 2018. It has been written to be updated. Salt Salt Salt (sodium chloride) is a chemical agent used to cook or process food. Saltiness is regarded as one of 5 main tastes. (Scientists have not, as of 2018, identified a distinctive taste receptor for salt.) Sodium is an essential nutrient,…
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Email 2018
I used Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013 as my desktop email client because they were nearly free. Employees of my employer got the Office Suites for a nominal charge. (my employer rolled back to Word 2010, and Outlook 2010 connected to its MS Exchange server for a time). The programs did what I needed. I…
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2017 Rides
Almost all my rides in 2017 were on my Trek FX 4, in Victoria, logged with a Cateye device. I logged 1,802.4 Km. I have several rides with Mike who had moved to Victoria. I had one ride in Portage la Prairie Manitoba on a trip east in September. I went to the Island festival…
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American Nations
Some writers – e.g. in a post in the Marginal Revolutions blog in 2017, the economist Tyler Cowen – mention American nations : a history of the eleven rival regional cultures of North America as a partial explanation for support for the candidacy of Donald Trump among American working class and middle class voters in…
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2016 Rides
My rides in 2016 were on my Trek FX, logged with the Cateye computer. I set the road bike aside for some maintenance. My logged distance, all rides, was 1,355.1 Km. I took a weekend trips by car to Duncan for the Island festival in July, and to Salmon Arm for the roots and blues…