Comments on: Vegan Macarons

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 17:41:45 +0000

Wow, 60% is a lot! Baking macarons takes a lot patience in California! Thanks for sharing the exact percentage 🙂
Well, I like the humidity here whenever it's not winter… In our new appartment the humidity plummets to under 20% (and that is really irritating for eyes and skin, we just had to buy humidifier to stop the irratation!), so yeah, it is perfect for macaron baking, but not living in general.
But even though the air is drier here, to make good macarons we have to get all the other stuff right, like the measuring and the macaronnage and they're not so easy – I've failed often before getting them right 🙂
Thanks for this blog, it's excellent!

By: erinwyso

erinwyso — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 16:08:31 +0000

We live in Southern California -- the humidity right now is at about 60%, which was probably a bit higher when I was experimenting in June/July. Some of the batches took even longer than two hours to dry, but I am not sure I can blame the humidity completely on that. (some of the batters were just more "wet" to begin with) All the more reason to measure correctly each time!

Your low humidity sounds wonderful!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 14:03:01 +0000

Hi! I would really like to hear what is the exact humidity in your kitchen or house, do you happen to have any idea? I am interested in this because I live in Finland, and here the houses have been built so that in the spring, summer and fall we have 30-40% relative humidity and during winter even lower. When I make maracons in the spring, summer or fall, about 30min of drying them is enough and in the winter they dry faster. So when I read your post I was like "whaaat, the drying cannot take several hours?!", but then I remembered that not all houses are built like this 🙂

By: erinwyso

erinwyso — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 17:38:18 +0000

In reply to Anonymous. I think I may have made over 12 batches! Worth it, though, to see progress. I hope you try it again with success!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 17:32:10 +0000

Thanks for sharing your experience. I tried macarons once so far after Charis first posted her video tutorial. It was a failure, and I've been very scared to try again. I think it was the macronnage stage that I either overdid or underdid (truly not sure which)–you giving the tip of the batter's behavior might help me more than trying to figure out what the *correct* number of strokes is. Still not sure I'll try again soon, but maybe 🙂