[BlindHandyMan] temperature controlled box
I want to build a temperature controlled box for controlling the temperature at which my bread dough rises. I'm thinking a box with a heat lamp and some sort of thermostat. Any ideas for the heat and more importantly the thermostat to control it? David [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [BlindHandyMan] temperature controlled box
One of the things you can do is use a stiafoam cooler, like they ship meat with. Add a heating pad and a towel over the pad, place the bread in the cooler and put the lid on it. This has worked well for me, both for making homemade yoga, and bread. RJ - Original Message - From: David Sexton To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 5:38 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] temperature controlled box I want to build a temperature controlled box for controlling the temperature at which my bread dough rises. I'm thinking a box with a heat lamp and some sort of thermostat. Any ideas for the heat and more importantly the thermostat to control it? David [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
RE: [BlindHandyMan] temperature controlled box
How about getting an incubater Or if you know any farmer types that might have one you could ask to see how they are designed. -Original Message- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of RJ Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 4:49 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] temperature controlled box One of the things you can do is use a stiafoam cooler, like they ship meat with. Add a heating pad and a towel over the pad, place the bread in the cooler and put the lid on it. This has worked well for me, both for making homemade yoga, and bread. RJ - Original Message - From: David Sexton To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 5:38 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] temperature controlled box I want to build a temperature controlled box for controlling the temperature at which my bread dough rises. I'm thinking a box with a heat lamp and some sort of thermostat. Any ideas for the heat and more importantly the thermostat to control it? David [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [BlindHandyMan] temperature controlled box
David, It won't take very much heat if you insulate the box at all well. I'd bet a couple 15 or 25 watt light bulbs around the bottom corners with a false bottom of maybe peg board above that to help distribute the heat would do just fine. You might tear apart an old small electric heater and scrounge the thermostat so it could go just in series with the light bulbs. Since you want a temp of between 85 and 90 degrees that should be in the probable range of such a simple thermostat. I just raise my dough in the gas oven with pilot light and the oven's light on, works fine, but if you have an electric oven it's a pain. BTW, the official name for such a box I think would be a proofing box should you want to google that and see if anything usefull comes up. Remember you want the lights not directly shining on the dough or bowls, and there should be room around everything to get some air movement so as to try to keep as even a temp as you can manage. Also, I just tried some King Arthur white-wheat flour this weekend, its a different wheat and ground quite fine, so the bread comes out with a texture half way between 100% whole wheat and white. Firm and moist but not so heavy. very good flavor and never gets gooie like white. Hope that helps, maybe others have more comments. Have fun and good breading tom Fowle
Re: [BlindHandyMan] temperature controlled box
I suppose it depends on how much you want to spend and how capable you want it to be. Proofing bread requires dark, warmth and humidity. Any sort of cardboard box then can do, a foam insulated cooler will be more energy efficient and you might construct one using something like extruded Styrofoam board and even lined with stainless steel to be extreme. One of those VIP talking thermostats designed to operate electric heaters could be used inside the box to allow you to set and monitor the environment but a much cheaper method would be the sort of dial thermostat for electric heat with a pointer marked so you can tell where to set it. There are low power heat pads used under planting trays for seed germination or you could plug in a kettle the heat and steam from which would give heat and humidity controlled by the thermostat. When I was a kid and teenager living on the island in Temagami my mom used to wrap her pans of dough in blankets and set them on the couch next to the oil fired space heater in the living room. Seemed to work for her. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. - Original Message - From: robert moore To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 6:16 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] temperature controlled box How about getting an incubater Or if you know any farmer types that might have one you could ask to see how they are designed. -Original Message- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of RJ Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 4:49 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] temperature controlled box One of the things you can do is use a stiafoam cooler, like they ship meat with. Add a heating pad and a towel over the pad, place the bread in the cooler and put the lid on it. This has worked well for me, both for making homemade yoga, and bread. RJ - Original Message - From: David Sexton To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 5:38 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] temperature controlled box I want to build a temperature controlled box for controlling the temperature at which my bread dough rises. I'm thinking a box with a heat lamp and some sort of thermostat. Any ideas for the heat and more importantly the thermostat to control it? David [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [BlindHandyMan] temperature controlled box
I had a friend who used to live up in the siera where power cost her for gas or propane and she had lots of wood. She had a cupboard built above the kitchen range just for proofing. As the range almost never was allowed to cool off, the cupboard was always just right. And bread baked in a wood overn is really better. Then another friend had a cupboard that was next to heating ducts in idaho falls, in the winter the heat was almost never off so that was perfect too. What I'd like to do is build both a solar proofing box and a solar oven. Maybe when I retire and have time and energy. Tom
