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Bready is a community for anything related to making homemade bread!

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4-strand plait finally clicked. It's two twists, offset. (i.imgur.com)

submitted 2 months ago by pageflight@lemmy.world to c/bready@lemmy.world

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I'd been following instructions to take stand 2 and put it between 3 and 4 etc, and I could execute the steps but not understand what was happening.

But this finally clicked for me, hope it helps others. (1) Twist the two center stands. (2) Twist the two outer stands, but (3) lay them down overlapping the center two, so the new center stands are one from the first twist and one from the second twist.

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[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh cool. I've been trying to generalize the n-strand braiding algorithm, so appreciate the geeking out.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

My favorite thing about 4 strand plaiting is that if have 2 of the same colour on one side you end up with checkers and if have 2 on either side you get a spiral. Make a marble rye!