Twenty Bakes · beta cohort

Why you stopped is more useful than the fact that you finished

Two minutes, and the unflattering answers are the valuable ones. If you dropped out at bake four because it was dull, that is a better result for this project than a polite completion.

This form is anonymous by design. It carries no name, no email and no participant link — the server stores your answers with no way to connect them to you or to your logs. Umesh will read the answers; he cannot tell which are yours.

Which bake did you last actually complete?

Zero is a real answer. So is twenty.

What actually stopped you?

Pick the closest one. These are listed roughly in order of how common they are, not how acceptable.

I lost interest It took more time than I expected A loaf failed and I didn't want to repeat it A stage was too difficult or too fiddly The ingredients were hard to get, or too expensive A stage felt pointless and I stopped trusting the programme Life got busy — nothing to do with the programme I got what I wanted and didn't need the rest I haven't stopped — I'm just slower than the schedule I finished all twenty Something else

Did you ever continue only because Umesh asked you to?

There is no wrong answer and he cannot tell it was you. This question exists because friends finish courses out of loyalty, and loyalty makes the results useless.

Yes — at least some of the time I was doing it for him, not for me A bit of both No — I was doing it because I wanted to

Did you use the schedule planner, or work from the fixed timetable? The planner, most bakes — I entered my kitchen temperature and used its times Some of each The fixed timetable in §18 — I barely touched the planner Neither — I worked it out myself or went by feel

Which card's prediction was most wrong?

Name the bake and what actually happened. This is the single most valuable thing on the form — the expected dough feel and crumb on every card are predictions from research, not observations, and finding one that's wrong is a genuine contribution.

Would you have paid for this? No Maybe, up to about £30 Yes, £30–£100 Yes, more than £100

In what shape? A book I could keep The app, as a subscription A live cohort with other bakers and a weekly call A self-paced online course None of these

Anything else

Blunt is useful. Especially about the parts that were tedious, confusing, or felt like homework.

Thank you — that's genuinely useful.

Nothing here identifies you. If you'd like your logs deleted as well, open the workbook and use the delete button in §33; it takes effect immediately.