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I bake fancy sourdough, grow vegetables, do landscaping (but not mowing) make great cocktails for people, ferment foods and drinks. Occasionally draw things for decorations.
On the other hand, we pay someone to mow, and also to clean the house every other week.
I tried my hand at sourdough breads, but failed miserably. How long did it take you to become decent at it?
The second time I made a starter it "took". Just regular unbleached all purpose flour and water. From there it was smooth sailing, it's a lot easier than yeasted bread for me. Main things that help:
Always refresh the starter at least twice before making bread with it (so if you want to bake Saturday, refresh Friday morning then make the big starter on Friday night with some of that refreshed starter.)
Refrigerate the dough after it's shaped. Untill it's cold or even overnight. This does two things. Makes it possible to do the scoring, and cold dough into a hot closed cast iron pot will create steam that helps it rise.
Which leads to - bake it in a closed hot heavy pot. Commercial ovens can do things home ovens can't. I do all sorts of baking with the starter but for "the sourdough" as the kids call it, the one that comes out like a $12 Artisan Loaf, baking it enclosed by the hot pan is the trick. I tip the cold dough out onto parchment, score it then use the parchment to carefully move it into the hot pot.
There is a sourdough community on Lemmy, they are a nice group and I'm sure would have more tips but those are mine.
I play golf, some days I wouldn't even call it a hobby more like penance and a walk in the trees and sticks
I try playing the guitar and taking photos.
My current favorite outside of gaming is selfhosting or homelabbing. Maybe not to a high degree but I manage four local servers and one offsite, with four websites. Itβs pretty fun but makes me super stress when it fails. One of those websites is a work related database but itβs also very fun to manage.
Another small hobby I have is managing my own small library. Using LOC codes I learned from the library. I inherited a massive collection from retiring profs.
Photography. I got back into it last year and have really enjoyed the process. Iβve learned a lot in a really short time.
I'm trying to get into creating electronic circuits. I'm terrible at it, though.
If youre doing soldering flux will change your lifeq
Kind of the opposite, but I void warranties for a living. Pays pretty well too.
I make and publish music but not popular enough to live off of it.
cycling and drumming (in a band), not easy to find the time with all the other stuff (chores etc.) that has to be done
- Car audio
- Auto repair
Welding! Just personal projects
I fix my own cars and do my own house maintenance.