40% Whole Sprouted 7 Grain Sourdough Bread

After our discussion last week about robots, sure enough we were over whelmed by them this week.  They were everywhere.  Blackrock, one of the largest money managers in the world announced they were firing all of their human analysis's from now on and all analyzing will be done by robots from now on. I want to know if the robots are named Fred or Doris,  I want to know what robot is doing my analyzing on important stuff like investments.

Then, I found out my daughter iwas training this week on surgical Da Vinci robots with a doctor who has been using them since 2008 and has done a gazillion surgeries with it.  She finished up today and said it was an amazing experience and she cant wait to get back to her PA School, UTMB, for formal training in May for 3 days with her doctor that she assists in surgery.

Then Wednesday, I tried to hook up, through a stock brokerage robot, bank accounts so that I could transfer money from them into accounts at the brokerage.  Well, no matter what I did or what bank account I tried, it just wouldn’t let me do It   But I could hook up my wife’s to her account there using the same robot - no problem – lucky her.  I felt victimized but mainly stupid like usual, so I called customer service to have them do it for me.  Customer service was mainly a robot too and it took me a while to figure out how to get a real person on the line with me.

I told he I would be linking the same bank account that I have been funding my IRA account with every year, by paper check, to make sure there would be no problems.  But, even the customer service person who was obviously an expert at this by the way, could not make it happen with any and all of my bank accounts.  She said there must be a computer glitch in the robot and I agreed.  It was working fine a few minutes ago when I had hooked up my wife’s account - no problem and easy as pie.

I asked what the name of this robot was so that I could talk to it Mano – Machineo.  She said that it does have a name but it wouldn’t make any difference since robots don't have feelings.    Well  doggies, that made me a bit anxious since we both had been talking to it for at least an hour through a keyboard

 I said no problem,figure it out and just hook up one of my bank accounts to the TD account so I could transfer money to it and give me a call on Friday, today, letting me know all was well in the world and that this robot didn’t have it out for me even If I didn’t know its name……… and I did felt guilty about not knowing it too.  She didn't call me back with the good news today so I called her.

She said that the robot was still being obstinate with me and my accounts, and I said no….. it was broke.  She said not really.   t linked hundreds of accounts for other people so it was just being obstinate when it came to me.  Well..... there it is.  This robot really is more human than machine because a machine is right or wrong, working or broken.... but not obstinate like a human.

She said I would have to send in a check like I always do and all would be well.  I told her that is what I had hoped I would never have to do again.  I could write the check, take a picture of it with my phone and send it to her by email attachment from my phone – just like I make deposits into this very same account at my bank.  She could print it out, if she wanted, and treat it just like a paper check that I used to mail to her.

Now I ran into something worse than an un-named, obstinate robot.  I ran into a brokerage policy glitch.  A policy made by, dare I say it, artificial humans that think they are smarter and more intelligent than robots.  She just couldn’t do what I asked.  Even though my bank could do a deposit with their digital, picture robot, she couldn’t use my printed out digital, picture check - even though it looked exactly like the one I wrote out and could have mailed.  But she said I could mail that very check to her and it would be deposited toot Suite - within 24 hours - no worries.

 I was starting to think this person was really 'the un-named' obstinate robot and didn't want to take a chance at further upsetting it by asking she was the robot.  She might be offended if she was and to go postal on me, hunt me down for extermination like a terminator – or worse steal all my money like a human identity thief.

 I was stuck deep.and nearly dead, in a robotic catch 22 that had to be my fault. I was worried so much, I bought some additional, terminator, umbrella insurance that this robot just happened to be selling on the side.  Lucy said to hang up the phone before it exploded since this probable terminator robot knew exactly where my phone was, right next to my ear,  though GPS.

So, I did, since I always do what Lucy says,  but I haven’t felt right about it since then either.  I am glad I’m covered with enough terminator, robot insurance to keep the wife out of the poor house should they track me down and do away with me or use me for their scientific, oddity experiments…… which really sounds like more fun than being dead.

Never forget that robots with Artificial Intelligence are still better and more useful than artificial humans who think they are intelligent – I’m sure of it now using myself as the perfect example.  Off to this week’s bake where the 7 sprouted grains were, oat , barley, Kamut, spelt, rye, Red and White wheat

This was another 5 hour from mix to into the CC  into and out of the oven SD bread with an overnight 14 hour bran and HE levain.  We did our usual autolyse, slap and folds, stretch and folds - 6 total on 20 minute intervals and then put it in a rice floured basket for a 2 1/2 hours of proofing in a new trash can liner.  It baked for 30 minutes total our usual way 450 F/ 425 F convection, half with the lid on and came out at 208.5 F.

The crunb came out very soft and moist,  It went nicely sour the next morning for a bread that wasn't retarded.  The kitchen was warm yesterday for the final proof and heat is better than cold when it comnes to sour  This bread tastes just like we hoped it would with 40% sproiuted grain - just delicioius but still a white bread.

Here is the formula

Levain- 12% pre-fermented 7 Sprouted grain bran and High Extraction sprouted flour, 100% hydration 2 stage 14 hour, overnight levain.

Dough

38% High extraction 7 sprouted grain flour

60% Albertson’s bread flour

2% Pink Himalayan sea salt

Enough water to make an 82% hydration overall dough

It sprang and bloomed OK.  Lucy says it was a bit over-proofed but she isn’t a robot so what does she know?