Gravy's Cooking Thread

Dr.Retarded · Sunday at 4:37 PM

mkopec said:
Well im born in Europe so old school american is not my old school, lol. Soft bread without crumb is like the worst thing you could do to it, unless you have no teeth or some shit, then I understand.

To me, really good bread is crusty on the outside but chewy on the inside. Just a nice, airy but chewy texture.

I think I'm just so used to having grown up in New Orleans and having good french baguettes. I don't remember what grocery store it was, but remember I'm going shopping with my mom when we were younger, and the one store had such a great in-house bakery. She would always buy two loaves, one for dinner and then normally we'd end up eating the other loaf on the way home because they would stick the fresh bread out on a warming rack, and there's nothing that smells or taste like that freshly baked stuff.

It's hard to beat good french bread and butter.

Fogel · Sunday at 4:48 PM

It's what put Amoroso on the map. If I'm eating a hoagie, it should take effort to take a bite out of.

Khane · Sunday at 4:53 PM

This conversation is ridiculous.

There are a number of great breads that are wildly different.

Crusty? Sure plenty. Tons of great bread, too many to name.

Chewy, with no crust at all? Yep, hi Focaccia.

Soft and airy with almost no crust or crumbs like some of you were lamenting? Oh hey there Brioche. Fucking delicious.

How about laminated breads like croissants?

Stop being idiots

Koushirou · Sunday at 4:54 PM

IDK, I can't stand biting into those harder loaves and there's just an absolute explosion of crust going fucking everywhere and making a huge mess.

The crust on mine is solid enough without crumbling and it's nice and soft inside. Can't complain.

Khane · Sunday at 5:03 PM

Koushirou said:
IDK, I can't stand biting into those harder loaves and there's just an absolute explosion of crust going fucking everywhere and making a huge mess.

That's not really what any of us are talking about. What you are describing is stale, chain restaurant crap. Basically a fucking crouton.

Dr.Retarded · Sunday at 5:11 PM

Khane said:
This conversation is ridiculous.

There are a number of great breads that are wildly different.

Crusty? Sure plenty. Tons of great bread, too many to name.

Chewy, with no crust at all? Yep, hi Focaccia.

Soft and airy with almost no crust or crumbs like some of you were lamenting? Oh hey there Brioche. Fucking delicious.

How about laminated breads like croissants?

Stop being idiots

Nobody said shit about those other types not being good. I think this as more of just memories and personal preference for probably most of us of regarding just really great bread.

I mean what kind of communist doesn't like a good, buttery croissant.

Speaking of which, I have a wonderful recipe for them you should maybe check it out if you're going to come in here talking about food. I pulled it out of one of my New Orleans cookbooks, you might enjoy it.

Khane · Sunday at 5:16 PM

Dr.Retarded said:
Nobody said shit about those other types not being good. I think this as more of just memories and personal preference for probably most of us of regarding just really great bread.

I mean what kind of communist doesn't like a good, buttery croissant.

Speaking of which, I have a wonderful recipe for them you should maybe check it out if you're going to come in here talking about food. I pulled it out of one of my New Orleans cookbooks, you might enjoy it.

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The conversation literally started because of some dumb fuck making fun of low crust, low crumb bread.

Stop living up to your forum handle so hard

Dr.Retarded · Sunday at 5:21 PM

Khane said:
The conversation literally started because of some dumb fuck making fun of low crust, low crumb bread.

Stop living up to your forum handle so hard

This is the version of "knees too sharp" for bread of all things. Whatever blows your skirt up I guess.

Khane · Sunday at 5:23 PM

Dr.Retarded said:
This is the version of "knees too sharp" for bread of all things. Whatever blows your skirt up I guess.

My post was the literal opposite of that, Doctor Retarded, sir.

Fogel · Sunday at 5:28 PM

Only bread I'm really against is any generic white bread you get at the grocery store, especially when it comes to a sub. Everything else has its place.

Dr.Retarded · Sunday at 5:29 PM

Khane said:
My post was the literal opposite of that, Doctor Retarded, sir.

You are right, my apologies, I missed the Brutul post. His post was more crust too sharp.

So we're in agreement there's all kinds of great bread out there.

Control · Sunday at 5:41 PM

mkopec said:
Well im born in Europe so old school american is not my old school, lol. Soft bread without crumb is like the worst thing you could do to it, unless you have no teeth or some shit, then I understand.

Yeah, I really like the Euro "here's a huge crusty loaf and a giantass bread knife" thing. I don't think I knew that there were like actual dedicated bread knives until then. And then I thought the open-faced sandwiches were weird for about 1 bite, and then it was like, yeah, you don't need two slices of this.

BrutulTM · Sunday at 10:01 PM

I never said anything negative about any kind of bread. I just related what my mom learned in her home ec classes and 4H education as a kid. Somebody must have pissed in Khane's Cheerios.

Lanx · Monday at 10:58 PM

BrutulTM said:
I never said anything negative about any kind of bread. I just related what my mom learned in her home ec classes and 4H education as a kid. Somebody must have pissed in Khane's Cheerios.

Yea lets get back to asian fluffy milk bread

Deathwing · 2025-07-29T05:47:11-0400

But that's not asian fluffy milk bread.

moonarchia · 2025-07-29T09:08:05-0400

Deathwing said:
But that's not asian fluffy milk bread.

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Lanx · 2025-07-29T15:11:20-0400

Deathwing said:
But that's not asian fluffy milk bread.

Stay in your lane talkin about crumbs and crust white boy

Deathwing · 2025-07-29T15:34:26-0400

Looks like challah to me.

mkopec · 2025-07-29T19:57:20-0400

Dr.Retarded said:
To me, really good bread is crusty on the outside but chewy on the inside. Just a nice, airy but chewy texture.

I think I'm just so used to having grown up in New Orleans and having good french baguettes. I don't remember what grocery store it was, but remember I'm going shopping with my mom when we were younger, and the one store had such a great in-house bakery. She would always buy two loaves, one for dinner and then normally we'd end up eating the other loaf on the way home because they would stick the fresh bread out on a warming rack, and there's nothing that smells or taste like that freshly baked stuff.

It's hard to beat good french bread and butter.

I make those too. They are dangerous. I make 3 loaves and they dont last all but a few hours around here.

Dr.Retarded · 2025-07-29T20:42:47-0400

mkopec said:
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I make those too. They are dangerous. I make 3 loaves and they dont last all but a few hours around here.

I remember somebody had posted that they made a lot of homemade crusty bread, was probably you. Stuff is hard to beat. That baguette looks awesome.

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