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Kaido said:
ima try it

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Turkish Pide

A comment: Wow turkish pide my favorite food. Definitely tastier than pizza. KUSKAS PIDE

Meeshie says in comment:

Oops, for anyone wondering about the sauce I dipped the pide in, I got a cup of yoghurt and shredded half of a cucumber in it and then added salt, and a small sprinkling of the same spice mix as I used for the meat. It was yummy!
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thank you for watching

Here's another Pide video that's 3:42, much more detailed and explains the ingredients, has cooking instructions too:
 
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FYI all ye who aspire to make Turkish pide:

Authentic Turkish pide (kiymali pide) meat fillings are seasoned with a combination of cumin, paprika, black pepper, and sumac or dried thyme, usually paired with red pepper flakes for heat. The mixture often includes fresh parsley, garlic, onions, and tomato/red pepper paste for a savory, moist, and aromatic flavor profile.
 
DigDog said:
try to find the wrinkly (salt-cured) black olives, not the shiny ones
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they do need to be hand-pitted, and probably cut in half as they are otherwise too strong, but they really do work great on pizza - they have a similar profile to capers, anchovies.
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How about capers on pizzas, @DigDog ? I have never bought capers but have been eyeing the jarred capers they sell at Costco and wondering about picking up a jar. Been seeing capers in some recipes. Anchovies I can do without, they always strike me as too salty... or something.

My local indy supermarket for years featured an open olive table where you could get all kinds of what I figure were gourmet olives, but they eliminated it. Now they just have prefilled containers. I bought one. Not terrible, but no doubt inferior and I did have to pit them all. ATM all I have is the shiny pitted canned black olives that come in a case at Costco. I like them but yeah there's better. I slice 4 of them for pizza, each in 3 or 4 pieces.

That guy in the pizza dough stretching video above, @Kaido, is a master. Really good teacher too. I've never really tried spinning or knuckling pizza dough. I think I should try to develop techniques to work my dough without a rolling pin. I'm making 12" pizzas. I think I could make larger ones in my oven, have to measure, but a 16" might fit alright.
 
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Muse said:
That guy in the pizza dough stretching video above, @Kaido, is a master. Really good teacher too. I've never really tried spinning or knuckling pizza dough. I think I should try to develop techniques to work my dough without a rolling pin. I'm making 12" pizzas. I think I could make larger ones in my oven, have to measure, but a 16" might fit alright.
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I'm unable to communicate with @Kaido as I've run out of @Kaido-tokens, can I borrow some?
 
JM Aggie08 said:
I haven't yet, but my interest is piqued.
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Essentially:

1. Mix 60 seconds before bed with your fingers (shaggy dough)
2. Let sit covered 10 to 18 hours (long 1st rise)
3. Fold into a bowl to proof for a couple hours (short 2nd rise)

Then preheat the oven:

4. Bake covered for 30 minutes
5. Bake uncovered for 15 minutes

Voila!

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Kaido said:
Essentially:

1. Mix 60 seconds before bed with your fingers (shaggy dough)
2. Let sit covered 10 to 18 hours (long 1st rise)
3. Fold into a bowl to proof for a couple hours (short 2nd rise)

Then preheat the oven:

4. Bake covered for 30 minutes
5. Bake uncovered for 15 minutes

Voila!

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I may try this with my sourdough starter. So far (after close to 3 years?) I've used it exclusively for waffles.
 
Muse said:
I may try this with my sourdough starter. So far (after close to 3 years?) I've used it exclusively for waffles.
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No-discard method:


How to pause your sourdough at peak & hold it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kaidomac/comments/1qtrzgm/how_to_pause_sourdough_starter_at_peak

Sourdough Wonderbread: (the greatest sourdough breakthrough of 2025!)

https://www.reddit.com/r/kaidomac/comments/1lglm3t/sourdough_wonderbread_copycat_recipe_active/

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I actually use Sourdough Discard a lot:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Sourdough/...=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

ENDLESS uses!!

simplicityandastarter.com

Homemade Sourdough Corn Dogs Recipe (Discard)

Sourdough Corn Dogs are hand-dipped in a honey batter, made with sourdough discard, and fried until crispy and golden brown!
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Sourdough Apple Crisp Recipe

This sourdough apple crisp is a great way to use up some extra apples and extra sourdough discard! Easy to make and definitely a crowd-pleaser
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Sourdough Oyster Crackers are made using Sourdough Discard, herbs, and cut in the shape of a circle. These are great on a charcuterie board.
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These are amaaaaaaaaazing:

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Sourdough Brownies

Sourdough brownies are super rich and fudgy with thick, gooey centers and shiny crackly tops. A chocolate lovers dream come true!
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Sourdough Butter Crackers

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DigDog said:
my avatar is a random icon i stole from who knows where that showed up when i searched "quake" on google.
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Mine is purely ATOT meme.

Alternator from Bulk Beef Online.
Fedora from BrokenVisage bitching about Fedora and ATOTer started putting fedora on their avatar to mock him.
 
Kaido said:
No-discard method:


How to pause your sourdough at peak & hold it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kaidomac/comments/1qtrzgm/how_to_pause_sourdough_starter_at_peak

Sourdough Wonderbread: (the greatest sourdough breakthrough of 2025!)

https://www.reddit.com/r/kaidomac/comments/1lglm3t/sourdough_wonderbread_copycat_recipe_active/

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I actually use Sourdough Discard a lot:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Sourdough/...=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

ENDLESS uses!!

simplicityandastarter.com

Homemade Sourdough Corn Dogs Recipe (Discard)

Sourdough Corn Dogs are hand-dipped in a honey batter, made with sourdough discard, and fried until crispy and golden brown!
simplicityandastarter.com simplicityandastarter.com

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mostlysourdough.com

Sourdough Goldfish Crackers - Mostly Sourdough

Gosh, Goldfish just take me right on back to my childhood home full of four crazy kids running around. My mom used to get the BIG boxes of Goldfish to satiate us all, and I can distinctly remember shoving my freckly little kid arm deep into the carton to grab handfuls of them at a... Read More »
mostlysourdough.com mostlysourdough.com

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theeverydayfarmhouse.com

Sourdough Apple Crisp Recipe

This sourdough apple crisp is a great way to use up some extra apples and extra sourdough discard! Easy to make and definitely a crowd-pleaser
theeverydayfarmhouse.com theeverydayfarmhouse.com

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sourdough-and-more.com

Sourdough Oyster Crackers

Sourdough Oyster Crackers are made using Sourdough Discard, herbs, and cut in the shape of a circle. These are great on a charcuterie board.
sourdough-and-more.com sourdough-and-more.com

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thymeforthetable.com

New York Style Sourdough Starter Discard Bagels - Thyme For The Table

Chewy New York Style Bagels are better when made with a sourdough starter. Sourdough discard adds depth of flavor and keeps the bagels fresh!
thymeforthetable.com thymeforthetable.com

View attachment 142310

These are amaaaaaaaaazing:

littlespoonfarm.com

Sourdough Brownies

Sourdough brownies are super rich and fudgy with thick, gooey centers and shiny crackly tops. A chocolate lovers dream come true!
littlespoonfarm.com littlespoonfarm.com

View attachment 142311

littlespoonfarm.com

Sourdough Butter Crackers

Sourdough butter crackers are crispy, flaky and oh so buttery! A quick and easy sourdough recipe to use with discarded starter.
littlespoonfarm.com littlespoonfarm.com

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@Kaido, you're the best! Beautiful, wondrous photos.

I don't discard the liquid that forms on my starter, which I keep in the fridge. I was making virtually a waffle a day a few months ago but have slowed down. I just stir in the liquid when I make a waffle. Haven't eaten sourdough bread for years. I will look over these ideas, they all look great!
 
RossMAN said:
You have a direct line to @Kaido HQ?

/jealous

P.S. how many instant pots did you have to purchase?
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Just one 6Qt. Instant Pot and I love it. A coupla vexing issues (sometimes it thinks the lid isn't properly attached and often the female cord end has continuity issues where it plugs into the pot).

I do a buncha things with it. I asked my nephew's wife what she does with hers and she said all she does is make hardboiled eggs with it!
 
Question: A guy PMed me some years ago here (his Anandtech Forums handle is/was myocardia) and we had a long conversation. I had no idea at all who he was. I think he was in TX. We talked about a lot of stuff, I guess he'd gotten curious about me. Anyway, I mentioned that I bake stuff and he said that people who bake are lousy cooks. My reply was "you're bent." His response was to delete every single post he'd made in the PM conversation! I was WHAT????? I don't know if I responded (probably didn't), but I was upset that the conversation (his side) suddenly disappeared and thought he was a really bad sport doing what he did.

Anyway, so here's the question: Are people who bake really bad cooks? Seems stupid to me. Why can't you be good at both? And why would a good cook avoid baking. Now @Kaido can obviously do both. I can't say I'm terrific at either but I've been cooking and baking for myself for decades and have made a lot of really good food. I don't have the patience and time to cook like I used to. I don't like to spend an hour cooking a meal. I used to, but don't like getting really elaborate. When I first started cooking I did it like a chemistry experiment (undergrad, and some earlier) - exact! I rarely do that now, I prefer to do things my way than follow a recipe to the T. That's often pretty complicated, takes a lot of time and you very often need a lot of ingredients. I don't like to spend a large proportion of my life feeding myself.
 
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Muse said:
Are people who bake really bad cooks?
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.. i, for once, do not have what i believe to be a factual answer. And those who know me know how rare that is.
From my personal experience, it's one or the other not due to Sk1lz issue, but rather that there is so much to learn with either, that people tend to specialize in what they like best. Also, cooking / not baking tends to focus more on tasting on the fly to make adjustments, while baking / not cooking instead tends more to predict the outcome "blind", so one will gravitate to either style depending on their personality.
 
DigDog said:
.. i, for once, do not have what i believe to be a factual answer. And those who know me know how rare that is.
From my personal experience, it's one or the other not due to Sk1lz issue, but rather that there is so much to learn with either, that people tend to specialize in what they like best. Also, cooking / not baking tends to focus more on tasting on the fly to make adjustments, while baking / not cooking instead tends more to predict the outcome "blind", so one will gravitate to either style depending on their personality.
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I think baking is way easier, actually. Cooking is far more complex. Everybody eats. There are lots of really intelligent people, talented people who can't cook on iota. Bobby Fisher used to just eat out all the time. A really talented musician who lived in my house used to just walk up to a diner ~1/4 mile away when he was hungry.
 
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