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Week 28 Saturday Bake-Along: Pocket Pita
This week we're not turning the oven on. It's July. It's hot. Nobody wants to bake a loaf in a 475 degree box when it's already 90 in the kitchen. So we're taking the whole thing to the stovetop, and we're chasing one of the most satisfying moments in all of baking: the pocket. You roll out a flat little disc. You lay it on a screaming hot skillet. And in about 90 seconds it balloons up into a full pocket right in front of your face. Here's the thing nobody tells you. That puff isn't magic. It's oven spring in miniature. The water in the dough flashes to steam, the steam wants out, and if you rolled it even and got your pan hot enough, the top and bottom lift away from each other in one clean sheet. Same science as a good crumb. You just get to watch it happen in real time. We're running two paths this week: 🔥 Yeasted, same day, start to pocket in about 2.5 hours: https://recipepantry.app/recipes/pocket-pita 🌾 Sourdough, fed by your starter, deeper flavor, longer rise: https://recipepantry.app/recipes/foolproof-pita-bread Both use the same shaping, the same rolling, the same puff drama. Pick your lane. The pocket rule, memorize it: 🥖 Roll it even, edge to edge 🔥 Get the surface truly hot before the dough touches it ✋ Go light on the bench flour, too much seals the layers open and the steam escapes And if one doesn't puff? It's still good flatbread. Fold it around whatever you're eating and roll the next one hotter. That's not a failure. That's the lesson. Recipe's in the Pantry. Ingredients are cheap and you probably have all of them right now. Prep your dough Friday night or Saturday morning, and let's fill some pockets. Drop a photo of your best puff in the comments. I want to see them balloon. Perfection is not required. Progress is. Henry ⭐🔥 https://youtu.be/n4ff1lKf-Vw
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Recipe Pantry Pro now has its own home, and its own page.🌾
For those of you already in the course, you have Pro. This is for the baker standing next to you who is not in yet but keeps asking how you price your loaves. Send them here. Recipe Pantry Pro is available on its own now for a one time $97. Scaling, cost and profit math, and production timelines built into every recipe. And there is a free working recipe on the page, my Foolproof Sourdough Loaf, so anyone can see what the tool does before they buy. Share it with someone who needs it: https://recipe-pantry-pro.vercel.app https://youtu.be/BQOh0NjfWrw
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Saturday Bake: Focaccia, Two Ways Working thread
Morning, everybody. Today we’re baking focaccia, and we’re doing it two ways so nobody sits this one out. If you keep a starter alive, there’s a path for you. If you don’t, there’s a path for you too. Same bread, two roads, and neither one is the lesser version. Here’s how the day works. The yeasted path (bake today). This is your same-day bake. Mix this morning, let it rise while you go about your Saturday, dimple it, oil it, bake this afternoon. Warm focaccia on the table by dinner. If you’ve never made focaccia before, start here. It’s the most forgiving loaf you’ll ever pull out of an oven. The sourdough path (start today, bake tomorrow). Focaccia with a levain is an overnight bread. Mix it today, let it bulk slow, cold-proof it in the pan overnight, and bake tomorrow morning. If you fed your starter last night and it’s ready to go, you can run it on a longer same-day schedule, but don’t rush it. The tang and the open crumb come from the wait. Two things that decide whether your focaccia is good or just fine, no matter which path you take: More oil than feels reasonable. In the pan and on top. Focaccia fries a little on its bottom. That’s the point. Bake it darker than feels comfortable. Pale focaccia is underbaked focaccia. Push the color. Now the part that makes it a bake-along. Post in this thread as you go. Show me your dough after the first rise. Show me the dimples before it bakes. Show me the crumb when you tear into it. If something looks off, post it and ask. Somebody here has hit the same wall and climbed over it, and that’s the whole reason we bake together on Saturdays. Recipe’s here so you’re not guessing: Free Recipe Pantry, focaccia recipe: https://recipepantry.app/recipes/summer-garden-focaccia https://recipepantry.app/recipes/sourdough-summer-garden-focaccia Hunter Members, the market version with the scale slider and cost math lives in Recipe Pantry Pro: https://from-oven-to-market.lovable.app/pro
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The Pocket Rule
Everybody wants to know the secret to getting pita to puff into a full pocket. Here it is, and it’s shorter than you’d think. Three things. That’s the whole list. Roll it even. Same thickness edge to edge. Not thin in the middle and thick at the rim. When the dough’s even, the steam lifts the top and bottom apart in one clean sheet, and you get a pocket. Uneven dough gives you a partial puff or a flat one. Get the surface hot. Truly hot, not medium. A drop of water should dance and vanish off the pan before the dough ever touches it. The puff is steam happening fast, and steam needs heat. A lukewarm pan just dries the dough out. Go light on the flour. Too much bench flour is the quiet pocket killer. It sits between the top and bottom layers and keeps them from sealing, so the steam leaks out instead of building. Roll on a light dusting and brush the excess off before it hits the pan. That’s it. Even dough, hot pan, light flour. Nail those three and the pocket takes care of itself. And if one still comes out flat? It’s good flatbread. Fold it around your lunch and roll the next one hotter. Recipe’s in the Pantry if you want to run it before Saturday: https://recipepantry.app/recipes/pocket-pita Perfection is not required. Progress is. ~Henry ⭐🔥
The Pocket Rule
Big update in the Recipe Pantry Pro, and Kim and Renee, this one's for you.
You both asked for it, so we built it. You can now change what shows up on your cottage food label without touching the recipe underneath. 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁. Swap, remove, or add any ingredient on the label. Selling the dairy free version? Swap whole milk for oat milk right on the label. Baking with gluten free flour? Swap it in. Adding a topping the base recipe doesn't list? Add it. Every change is yours, saved per recipe, and it never changes the original formula. https://skoo.ly/get-pantry-pro 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗹 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂. This is the part I'm proud of. When you swap an ingredient, the "Contains" line rewrites itself. Take the butter out and put in a plant based fat, and Milk drops off the allergen line on its own. Add walnuts, and Tree Nuts shows up. You're not left wondering whether you remembered to update the warning. The label keeps up with you. 𝗔 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗲𝗿, 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗶𝗻. Next to each ingredient there's a little swap button. Tap it and you get common substitutions with a quick baker's note on each one: thickeners, flours, milks, fats, eggs, sweeteners, nuts. Pick one and it drops onto the label, allergens and all. 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝘇𝗲. The label sizes itself now, so your text won't overlap or run off the edge no matter how long your bakery name or ingredient list runs. Net weights got corrected too, so a focaccia square reads as a square, a cinnamon roll reads as a roll, and a loaf reads as a loaf. And if you cut your own portions, there's a spot to type in the exact weight off your scale, because that number has to be the real one. How to use it: open any Pro recipe, tap Print Labels, and you'll see your ingredient list on the right with the swap controls. Make your changes, watch the Contains line update, then print. Kim, Renee, go build the versions you've been wanting to sell. If anything looks off, drop it right here and https://skoo.ly/get-pantry-pro
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