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The Energy Environment Simulator

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Water and Power
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...ctured by Tenntronics, a defunct company that was in business from the late 1960s through the late 1980s. It came with a handsome storage cabinet that also serves as a pedestal. Photo: Niklas Vollmer I’m guessing that the Energy-Environment Simulator is a relic of the 1970s oil crisis and I respect its creator’s attempt to demonstrate the interlocking feedback loops of systems theory in the pre-personal computer era. Since we all didn’t learn the...

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Recipe for the World’s Best Whole Wheat Pancake

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Bread, Fermentation, Food
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...ea salt 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder The night before making these pancakes I take a tablespoon of mature starter and add it to 100 grams of freshly milled Sonora wheat flour and 110 grams of water. This mixture will be the 200 grams of starter you’ll use in the recipe. The next day mix all the ingredients together, fry them up in a pan and get ready to have your pancake paradigm shifted. New frontiers in baking Freshly milled...

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Stern Sprouted Wheat Vegan Cookie or Health Bar Type Things

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Food, How-to, Recipes, Wheat
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...ough out into an rough rectangle measuring about 7 x 9 inches. The dough itself will be about 3/8 of inch thick. If you don’t have parchment or a rolling pin, you can surely pat the dough flat on the pan with wet hands. I would recommend flattening the dough on the baking sheet, because it’s hard to move it. If you used the parchment paper, just transfer the rolled-out dough on its piece of parchment paper onto the cookie sheet. If you want, you c...

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2013 in Review Part I

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Thoughtstylings
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...it should rain. It didn’t. The year was the driest on record: 3.6 inches, making it a desert not the Mediterranean climate it should be. It seems to be a dry winter again this year and I’m worried. March A texting music video producer totaled our car and thus began a six month experiment in living without a car in Los Angeles. That experiment ended in September when we bought a car. Living in LA without a car was easier than I thought it would be...

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Does Sourdough Offer Hope for the Gluten Intolerant?

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Bread, Fermentation, Food
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...uickly. But even before Pasteur, bakers used the yeast remaining from beer making (also a strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae) to make doughs rise. Sourdough cultures are not as powerful and predictable, so it’s understandable that commercial bakers would want a more dependable alternative. What is in a sourdough culture? There are many strains of yeast in sourdough cultures, but the main one is Candida milleri. Candida milleri is tolerant of highl...

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