Read the story and then you can click over and get the master all-purpose caramel recipe and follow along with a caramel step-by-step played out in 30 pictures.
If you don’t know Dan’s work, you’re in for a treat: he’s both a really good baker and a really good writer. You shouldn’t ever miss his weekly column for the Guardian’s Word of Mouth Blog. Although, if you have, you needn’t fret — click on Dan’s Guardian profile and you can catch up with what he’s written recently.
And if, like me, you want more Dan, you can go to his site, a treasured resource for bread bakers.
Both photographs are by Graham Turner for The Guardian.