Home oven. A pretty decent neff one though that claims to hit 275 C

Pizza stone preheat for ~40 minutes. Switch to the grill on max for ~10 minutes while assembling the pizza the back to normal while it’s on. The grill helps get the stone nice and fucked up.

Unfortunately the stone is glazed (wtf?) so the base isn’t as hard as it could be if it was pulling moisture from the bottom. But hey, hand me downs are hand me downs.

I really just read this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13414492-flour-water-salt-yeast and he has a section on pizza. If you’re into yeast related activities I’d recommend that book. Very readable and he has a nice unpretentious attitude towards just enjoying baking.

I’m in australia so I don’t get a lot of vegan products that are present in europe or the dark empire. I sort of hate the coconut fat based cheeses we get though, fermenting my own is a bit high effort with a high failure rate alas. I’ve been meaning to play around with like my usual cashew/nooch/msg/salt/vinegar blend but adding some stuff like tapioca starch or carogena or whatever to make more of a goop.

Usually when I make pizza I skip cheese though, a winner is sweet potato, pomegranite molasses, and dandelion greens. Or hummus, mediterranean summer veg, and zaatar.

The advantage of working with a slack ~70% hydration dough is you can sort of press the ingredients into it to make them stay put.

When making naan what do you sub for yoghurt? we get sad pathetic coconut fat ‘yoghurts’ here. I’ve fermented my own from soy milk but it tends to taste a bit tofu-y. Been meaning to try some other blends.

lmk how it goes? I’m not very experienced at japanese style cooking but the simple flavours can be very comforting so I’m keen to see what other vegans do for the flavours.

Hmm interesting. I’ve always noticed a couple of things when I’ve tried.

1. lacking the sharp acidic taste (easy enough to do something about)
2. My naan is never as flexible and chewy as it should be. Which I assume is lack of dairy.

I mostly have tried follow veganricha’s recipes. Maybe I should flounder around elsewhere. Or maybe it’s the cook time/heat, I’m restricted to my oven. I was actually looking at those oni things yesterday, but given I mostly bake loaves I think I’d be better set putting the funds towards building a bread oven.

Thank fuck! I am so fucking tired of reading posts written by people marginally to the left of thatcher complaining about all the ‘commies’ (read people who think we should improve society somewhat, for reference I am a breed of commie and we are massively outnumbered here).

Not to mention the horrid driveby antivegan downvote storm with 0 useful contributions because it challenges their fragile conception of masculinity.

Have multiple accounts! It’s the freedom of federation. Corporate media taught you to have one, because that was the easiest way they could monetise you. Take back control, maintain separate identities for separate activities!

Tvp and starch paste from washing seitan and then some flavour additives (basically msg but more expensive, leftovers from wifey’s experiments with superstimulus meat flavoured stock). Was copying a brand available locally here.

I did :p

Hi there,

Thanks for your contributions on this server, you seem like a reasonable sort. Unfortunately there’s a couple of issues with this comment but rather than just remove I thought I’d explain and let you make some corrections so you hopefully stick around.

Cats need to eat meat as there is taurine in it without which they go blind.

Cats need taurine yes! which is only found in meat naturally. However synthetic taurine is a thing (e.g. in popular energy drinks) and is frequently added to cat food. This sort of equivocation between meat and nutrients, in the same vein as referring to meat as the only source of protein, is problematic. Cats also have a few other issues with unprocessed veg stuff, it’s not like if you sprinked taurine over a dhal they’d be able to eat it, but that is a whole other thing.

Whilst we are vegan personally we don’t think cats or any animals that live with us should be forced to forgo their natural diets for our ideals. If they could consent to it then yeah, but forgoing their natural diets because we have a problem with it is in our opinion bad.

It probably doesn’t feel like it but this is speciesism. Privileging the pleasure of certain ‘pet’ species over the many animals they consume is problematic if we have other choices (the degree to which that is true is still being determined but tentative evidence suggests cats can avoid meat, or at least vastly reduce their intake). While the ethics of pet keeping is an entirely separate conversation everyone caring for non humans, whether in the context of pets or at a sanctuary, makes many decisions on their behalf. Consider for example that ‘wild’ domestic cats don’t each much fish and yet it’s very common for cat foods to be based on fish. Arguments to nature aren’t very useful for determining what is or is not right.

This is a very emotive issue, but it’s important we assess it in a non-speciesist and vegan framework.

Cheers,

I had them for the first time as an adult and loved them. Although I can never get them proper crispy like the chef managed to.

I will unlock the secret when I have proved myself worthy.