2704: Five Things I Learned from Sourdough Bread by Anthony Ongaro

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🗓️ 25 March 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Anthony Ongaro of Break the Twitch shares five things he learned from sourdough bread. Episode 2704: Five Things I Learned from Sourdough Bread by Anthony Ongaro After years of impulse spending on Amazon and elsewhere, Anthony Ongaro realized that his one-click purchase habits were more of a physical Twitch than an intentional action. It turned out, this Twitch wasn’t just limited to online spending. It applied to social media, impulsive smartphone usage, and more. Break the Twitch is all about minimizing distractions and doing more of what matters. Check out Anthony's new book, Break the Twitch: http://breakthetwitch.com/book The original post is located here: https://www.breakthetwitch.com/sourdough/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 2704.
0:04.0	Five Things I Learned From Sourdough Bread by Anthony and Garrow of BreakTheTwitch.com.
0:10.0	Animator Justin Mollick, the guy that reads blogs or articles to you every single day of the
0:14.6	year, including weekends and holidays.
0:16.8	I appreciate you listening every day, really means a lot.
0:19.8	We're going to get right to our next post as we optimize your life.
0:28.0	Five Things I Learned From Sourdough Bread by Anthony and Garrow of BreakTheTwitch.com.
0:34.0	Over the last few weeks, Amy and I have become particularly interested in making sourdough
0:39.2	bread.
0:40.2	We love the idea of making bread the same way that humans have for many thousands of years.
0:45.1	Besides the delicious nature of the bread, there are some great reasons for doing it this
0:48.4	way too.
0:50.0	Making sourdough bread in the traditional method is not without difficulties for how simple
0:54.2	it is.
0:55.2	It is an incredibly slow, meticulous process.
0:58.1	It's not something that can be done in an hour or two, not even in an afternoon.
1:02.2	It takes about a week if you start from complete scratch.
1:06.0	It consists of creating a sourdough starter made from flour and water mixed in equal parts
1:11.4	and leaving it exposed to the air.
1:13.8	For next several days, equal parts of water and flour are added until the wild yeast begins
1:18.4	to ferment.
1:19.8	It takes about five or six days of this for the starter to become strong enough to begin
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