Status: Not failed yet. Failed. You could drive nails with that one.
Found a second source for cheap gluten-free bread mix. I'd ignored this one since it cost 50% more than the other, then I looked closer, and realised that it was 50% more for twice as much.
Doh.
It's a slightly different mix (soy flour in place of chick pea flour) and is a grain bread (linseeds, sunflower seeds, corn kibbles) but it's made by the same company. I used a little less water than specified, and this time it looks more like dough than cake batter so that's promising.
And I bought enough for six loaves, so I should be able to zero in on a good recipe before I run out.
Update: Hmm. This one also uses baking soda rather than yeast. It hasn't risen at all yet, so I hope it does so as it bakes.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, August 30 2015 03:40 PM (+rSRq)
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I've heard that in some cases, what appears to be a Gluten allergy is actually an allergy to the bleaching agent used in flour. Although finding unbleached flour can be tricky sometimes.
Posted by: Mauser at Sunday, August 30 2015 06:51 PM (TJ7ih)
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Allergies are tricky, but in my case it's celiac disease rather than an allergy. (Autoimmune reaction rather than a histamine reaction.)
Which is good in that it's a constant thing and won't suddenly flare up and kill me, but bad in that the only treatment is to completely avoid anything containing wheat, barley, or rye.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, August 30 2015 07:26 PM (PiXy!)
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I hope you're keeping notes, so that if you finally succeed you'll be able to replicate the success.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, August 31 2015 02:16 AM (+rSRq)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, August 31 2015 02:16 AM (+rSRq)
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300ml of cold water makes the bread rise enough but not too much. (The packet says 350ml.)
I think I need to bake it on a light setting then leave it in a warm oven for an hour or so. A darker setting makes the crust too thick, but on a light setting it's still a bit doughy in the middle.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, August 31 2015 10:48 AM (PiXy!)
Help may be coming (in 30 years or so). Glenn says that researchers in Spain have come up with a GM wheat which is 96% gluten reduced compared to regular wheat. And it makes a satisfactory bread.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tuesday, September 01 2015 11:29 AM (+rSRq)
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Tuesday, September 01 2015 11:38 AM (/lg1c)
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Yep, I saw that. Since it's only gluten-reduced, not gluten-free, and celiac disease has an non-linear dose/response relationship, I'll have to wait and see.
They say that a typical celiac patient should be able to eat three or four slices of this bread without a problem, so it's promising.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, September 02 2015 10:18 AM (PiXy!)
This show shouldn't work as well as it does. It's a stupid little one-joke gag manga. I'll have to see if I can find the manga itself (yep), because the anime does something rather clever with that: The joke isn't the joke, and they never actually tell the real joke, they just let you catch glimpses of it. And it never stops being funny.
The camera angles.
And all the while, they're busy trotting out tired old cliche comedy characters and turning them into real people so deftly you hardly notice at first.
I gave the first episode a 3 out of 5, when I expected it to be a 2 at best. By episode 5 it was a solid 4. This latest episode was a 4.5.
Recommended.
Update: I just read the two of the chapters that made up episode 8. All the material is there in the manga, but I like the anime a lot better. And there's enough material in the manga for a second season (they're currently on chapter 41 out of 119), so I'm hoping it does well enough for that to happen.
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And then Pixy said, measuring cup, measuring cup... Aha!
And then Pixy said, are you sure these proportions are right, bread mix packet? That looks more like cake batter than bread dough.
And then Pixy said, what the hell, the worst that can happen is I end up with no bread, which is where I've been since 2010.
Found some inexpensive packaged gluten-free bread mix* at the supermarket, so I dug out my old bread maker thingy and it's whirring away right now. I lost the instruction book long ago and I'm expecting this first run to be inedible, but it's worth a shot.
Update: Yep, inedible. Definitely too many waters. Will try again with fewer waters.
* In case you're wondering, tapioca starch, potato flour, chick pea flour, and rice flour. There's no real substitute for wheat, unfortunately.
With episode 7, Ushio and Tora has diverged from the 90s OVA and is covering new ground from the manga.
I was wrong that it was keeping the pace of the original, too. I just checked if this episode was something I'd forgotten from the original, and found that the sea monster from last episode took two episodes in the OVA. I was worried that with 39 episodes instead of 10 they might draw it out and spoil the pacing, but they have 33 volumes of manga to get through and it looks like they're not going to slow down for anything.
What they really must do, though, when they come to the end, is remake the songs from the original CD Theater bonus.
Unfortunately that's a VHS transfer (I have that tape) and it skips, but there's a DVD version available if you know where to look.
This reminds me of a screen saver I used to have, back when screen savers were a thing. "After Dark"? I think was the brand. Anyway, this one was a manufacturing line for creating Terminators.
One of the nicest things about your picture is that it wraps around. You can tile it and the edges mesh cleanly, with action crossing them.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, August 12 2015 02:07 AM (+rSRq)
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I searched at YouTube for "Guchuko" and found a lot of stuff. Weirdly, they were subtitled but had been swapped left-for-right. (Maybe that's why they never got noticed?)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, August 09 2015 05:19 PM (+rSRq)
