Well, I was away from home yesterday and much of today, at the home/restaurant of some friends, introducing them to some bread baking since they had recently acquired a used, gas pizza oven and also wanted to use it for bread.
Since he had already been using the oven for pizza, I let him handle that while I showed his helper (a woman who cleans but also helps with some of the cooking tasks) what to do for the recipe my friend wanted to try as something to use for hamburger rolls.
The recipe called for the rolls to be baked at 375F for 15-20 minutes, but the rolls turned into charcoal in less than five minutes!
It turned out that my friend hadn't really paid attention to the oven temperature gauge when making pizza, and when he finally preheated the oven to 375, he was actually beyond the far end of the gauge (350), since the gauge was marked in CENTIGRADE! Thus, these rolls that were supposed to be baked at 375F had been incinerated at more than 660F!
So, we certainly had a good laugh about that and, when we tried a second batch, today, we made sure to have the oven only preheat to 190C on the gauge and the rolls turned out fine.
As far as the actual rolls were concerned, even though the cooked well and tasted good, we each agreed that the recipe he had chosen was not really right for hamburger rolls - great as dinner rolls, but not hamburger rolls. After further discussion, we agreed that something more like kaiser rolls would be better (especially since neither he nor I like those puffs of cotton usually sold as hamburger rolls).
Since he had already been using the oven for pizza, I let him handle that while I showed his helper (a woman who cleans but also helps with some of the cooking tasks) what to do for the recipe my friend wanted to try as something to use for hamburger rolls.
The recipe called for the rolls to be baked at 375F for 15-20 minutes, but the rolls turned into charcoal in less than five minutes!
It turned out that my friend hadn't really paid attention to the oven temperature gauge when making pizza, and when he finally preheated the oven to 375, he was actually beyond the far end of the gauge (350), since the gauge was marked in CENTIGRADE! Thus, these rolls that were supposed to be baked at 375F had been incinerated at more than 660F!
So, we certainly had a good laugh about that and, when we tried a second batch, today, we made sure to have the oven only preheat to 190C on the gauge and the rolls turned out fine.
As far as the actual rolls were concerned, even though the cooked well and tasted good, we each agreed that the recipe he had chosen was not really right for hamburger rolls - great as dinner rolls, but not hamburger rolls. After further discussion, we agreed that something more like kaiser rolls would be better (especially since neither he nor I like those puffs of cotton usually sold as hamburger rolls).
If blueberry muffins have blueberries in them, what do vegan muffins have?