The Keepers - The Crumb Institute

[NOTICE: THE BENCH WAS CHECKED FOR LEVEL AT 08:00 AND WAS LEVEL] — FLOUR STORE HELD AT 14.2 °C AND 51 % RELATIVE HUMIDITY — VESSEL PLACED AND TARED TO ZERO — 350.0 g OF WATER ADMITTED AT 21.4 °C IN A SINGLE CONTINUOUS POUR — SALT WEIGHED SEPARATELY AS SPECIFIED, 9.0 g — THE STIRRING WAS JUDGED TOO FAST AND WAS SLOWED — THE OVEN TIMER IS SET TO 38 MINUTES AND NOT TO 79 MINUTES — [NOTICE: THE BENCH WAS CHECKED FOR LEVEL AT 08:00 AND WAS LEVEL] — FLOUR STORE HELD AT 14.2 °C AND 51 % RELATIVE HUMIDITY — VESSEL PLACED AND TARED TO ZERO — 350.0 g OF WATER ADMITTED AT 21.4 °C IN A SINGLE CONTINUOUS POUR — SALT WEIGHED SEPARATELY AS SPECIFIED, 9.0 g — THE STIRRING WAS JUDGED TOO FAST AND WAS SLOWED — THE OVEN TIMER IS SET TO 38 MINUTES AND NOT TO 79 MINUTES —

The keepers

Six people, one bench

ANA RODRIGUES · DIRECTORFounded the Institute in 2019 after a proofing failure she describes as formative and everyone else describes as an oven left on. Weighs the flour.
MILO FRANK · CRUMBCounted 1,240 holes by hand for CBI-2026-041. Maintains that the disagreement with the second keeper is a difference of definition rather than of measurement.
DR. INES VAHL · HYDRATIONWrote the hydration section, including the sentence about it not being a percentage of the total, which she has now had to write four times. Has not eaten bread since 2023 and will not say why.
PETER OKAFOR · INSTRUMENTATIONMaintains the thermocouple logger, the balance and the book. Owns the only key to Oven 3, which he has not used.
JUNE BAPTISTE · KEEPER OF THE CULTUREHas fed the 1974 starter every day for nine years, including two days of bereavement and one of civil unrest.
THE SECOND AUTHOR · ATTRIBUTION PENDINGAppears on four publications. Does not appear on the staff list, in any photograph, or at the bench.

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