Hello from Toronto!

Not to be cliche with the subject and greeting, but hi all - long time lurker, first time poster! I've always come to The Fresh Loaf as my first port of call when looking for bread ideas, bread troubleshooting, or just bread photos when I'm hungry lol.

Thought I'd finally make an account and start posting for... well, no particular reason, really. But I just had a breakthrough in this one bread that was causing me problems (after ~2 weeks of failures that went straight into the compost) so y'know. Wanted to brag to people who would understand. My one bread-making friend is off on his honeymoon, and my own husband is supportive but he's not a bread baker (yet) so he doesn't quite get it.

Fun fact, I'm actually predominantly a cakes/cookies/sweets baker, especially since those are usually easier to pawn off onto coworkers. During the pandemic lockdown years, my baking output dropped down to nearly nothing since, as an office worker now working from home, I didn't have anyone to give the excess to anymore! So while the rest of the world was really getting into home baking, I was doing the least amount of baking in my life since maybe high school.