Cathy has been experimenting with gluten free bread recipes. She has all manner of different flours and ingredients now: rice, potato, tapioca, corn, amaranth, sorghum, xanthan gum, etc.
Yesterday the power went off here in Wayland, probably because a tree branch fell on the lines due to the heavy, wet snow. We got about 8 inches of the stuff, and I broke the drive belt on the snowblower again.
Anyway, the power goes off, and Cathy says “The bread has finished rising. We need to bake it now.” Well, the oven is not on one of the transfer switch circuits, so we can’t run it off the generator.
Not a problem! We recently got a new oven at the Boston Building Resource Center, and we saved the old one, because, well, you never know. I already took the front trim glass off the old one to replace the glass of the new one, which shattered one day. (The Gaggenau EB984 is an awesome oven, but they don’t make them any more, and parts are getting expensive.)
I wired the old oven onto the generator output and we baked the bread with the oven on the floor of the mudroom. Yes I know the generator should be more outside than shown below. I had to move the car first, which I did a few minutes after this photo.
Win says “That’s sort of crazy, you know.”
I will get an extra L14-30 plug so this will be easier next time.
