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A customer at the Saturday market told me my sourdough was too perfect
He said, 'This looks like it came from a machine, not a person.' It happened right at my stall in Eugene, and it made me rethink my scoring patterns. Do you ever get comments that make you change a small part of your process?
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casey3936mo ago
My barista friend in Portland got told her latte art was too exact, like a printer made it. She started making the hearts a little lopsided on purpose. It's weird how we're trained to see mistakes as proof something is real. I see it with handmade pottery too, where a perfect mug gets less love than one with a visible thumbprint. We want to buy the story of a person, not just a thing.
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linda_wood5mo ago
My pottery teacher in community college told us to leave one small flaw in every piece on purpose. She called it the humility mark. I sold a set of bowls last year where I smoothed out all the ridges, and they sat on the shelf for months. The slightly wobbly ones next to them sold out in a week. That customer's comment about your bread is the same weird logic.
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gavin_reed6mo ago
My old boss in Detroit once said my reports were too clean, like a robot wrote them. I started leaving in a few typos on purpose, just to seem more human. People actually trusted the info more after that.
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