Lesson 1 of the Flour Deep Dive is live in the classroom.

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This is where everything starts. Before you can fix your bread, you have to understand your flour. And understanding flour starts with the wheat kernel.

In this lesson we break down the three parts of every kernel: the endosperm, the bran, and the germ. You'll learn what each one does to your dough, why hard wheat and soft wheat behave completely differently, and how to read a flour label so you actually know what you're buying.

There's also the squeeze test, a 10-second trick you can do right in the grocery store aisle to tell if a flour is high or low protein before you even open the bag.

The demo bake is simple but powerful: pick one recipe and bake it twice with two different flours. Same recipe, same process. Compare the dough feel, the rise, the crumb, and the taste. Post your results right here in this thread.

This is the foundation for everything else in the course. Once you understand what's inside the kernel, every lesson after this one clicks faster.

Drop a comment: what flour is in your pantry right now? Brand and type. Let's see what everyone is working with.

And when you finish the lesson, hit the check mark in the upper right corner. It helps the Academy and lets me know you're tracking with the course.

BAKE-ALONG RECAP POST:

Still catching my breath from yesterday. You guys were amazing.

I'm putting together the full recap of the Cinnamon Roll Bake-Along right now, but I had to jump in here first and say this: some of you are STILL at it, still posting photos, still asking questions, still rolling and glazing and filling your kitchens with that smell. That's exactly how this is supposed to work.

Whether you knocked it out yesterday morning or you're pulling your pan out of the oven right now, drop your photos in the bake-along thread. I want to see every single one. The perfect ones, the messy ones, the ones where the filling leaked everywhere. All of it.

Full recap coming soon. In the meantime, keep baking and keep posting. This community shows up every single week and it never gets old.

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