Well, I agree with everything in the post!! I learned those little nuggets of wisdom through reading the KAF blog for years now and through my own baking disasters -- er -- adventures! My first suggestion is a variation on Mary's comment about buying the best equipment you can afford. I say also buy the best ingredients you can afford. The quality of what you put into your baked goods shows in the quality, texture, flavor, etc. of the finished product. Also, I would suggest ... read. My mom always said that reading is power, reading is everything. If you can read, you can bake, you can cook. If you can read, you can do anything. So read blogs, read cookbooks, read magazines. I have learned SO MUCH from reading the KAF blog as well as many other sources of inspiration and knowledge. And I am the better baker because of it.

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