Haha. I feel your pain and like anything in life the best things sometimes come at a price my friend. And as I can tel in your tone this is one hell of a battle. I too have this barrier in my heart and although long in the tooth and well versed in most baking skills dough remains an elusive muse like the ones calling sailors to their demise. But it’s a journey and these tops will ease that a bit. By gettting rid of some of the problem inputs that create variation, you are able to focus on the ones you can’t control as easily. Like technique and knowing what the heck it’s suppose to look and feel like if you don’t know how to get past a giant mess of sticky dough and no hands left to touch anything remotely helpful you x rot maybe your auto 911 dialer as you fall trying to reach the fire hose. Dealing with dough has so many elusive “magic” feely inputs and eliminating a few of them by getting these 4 items dialed in at least, then it starts to clear the horizon a little bit. But I still have not crossed that desert to the emerald city of pie crust. I still make a mess and will not get close to th e ease that tv hosts show with their premeasured items all at hand at the perfect temp and just in time. And the clean aprons d counter always make me laugh. I guess when you have commercials and a staff…well.
But inch by inch and tweak the variation as you go. 😋

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