Recycle Crazy is a blog about food, recycling, and baking by Dave, an amateur baker and cook. I work in IT by day, and really enjoy baking and cooking in my spare time. Like many I don’t always have as much time as I’d like for cooking and baking, so I have to invent ways that are efficient without losing the home made taste.
This site is split into sections:
- Recipes I’ve made many times, as long as you more or less follow the instructions these should just work, at the moment they cover mainly baked items, but in future I’ll probably add some soups and other recipes there too.
- The blog is much more like a notebook of things in progress, and what I’m trying to get right.
- Lastly, the books section goes through both books and cooking shows that have really helped me improve.
Useful tools for bread making
You could make bread without most of the tools below, but these items are what I reach for every time.
- Bread-maker - I really like bread makers, not only can they produce a good loaf without much effort, the more important function for me is that they can do the mixing, kneading and proving for you. This can be their most valuable function.
- Dough scraper - pictured above in title photo can be used for measuring out dough into portions for buns, pizza etc. Not 100% needed as you could use a knife instead, but the scraper is very useful and inexpensive.
- Water spray-mist bottle - pictured above in the title photo, get a water spray bottle, using one of these just before baking to put water mist on the dough surface and into the oven makes the crust crispy.
- A good quality non-stick baking tray and for pizza, a couple of pizza trays are very useful indeed.
Please do take a look around, and try some of the recipes. I hope that the information provided here is helpful for you.
