On 3/27/2021 11:06 PM, cshenk wrote:
> Boron Elgar wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 03:19:19 -0700 (PDT), bruce bowser
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 4:47:24 AM UTC-4, S Viemeister wrote:
>>>> On 25/03/2021 03:17, Michael Trew wrote:
>>>>> On 3/24/2021 5:28 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>>> And as for your $1 loaf of bread in your previous post: that's
>> shitty >> >> bread. I'd rather pay $7 and get a good loaf of bread.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd rather have the expensive bread too, but income is a factor
>> in these >> > things as well.
>>>>
>>>> Bake your own. Good bread at 'cheap bread' prices.
>>>
>>> Including energy & labor costs of cleaning dishes.
>>
>> Energy is expended to get to/from the store, either human or
>> mechanical if you are going to buy store bread or ingredients to use
>> at home.
>>
>> Baked yourself at home there is one bowl to mix the dough, which also
>> serves as the proof container. Shaped loaf bakes on reusable
>> parchment/mat on a stone. No clean up to that except to blow off the
>> crumbs.
>>
>> I get the feeling you haven't the foggiest idea of how bread is made.
>> I have news for you...it does not come out of the oven sliced and in a
>> bag.
>
> A lot of people don't understand it. It is however very simple to do.
> Most are made with 10 minutes of your time (or less!).
>
>
>
You use a bread machine. Personally I don't eat enough bread to warrant
making it from scratch, machine or not. Oh, in years past (before
anyone invented a home-use bread machine) I made all sorts of bread. I
turned out a magnificent couple of loaves of braided egg bread (challah)
and took them to work for an office pot luck back in the 1980's.
Everyone ooh'd and ahh'd, you MADE this? Yes I did!

I had my breadmaking phase and got over it. If I ate enough bread to
care I'd make it from scratch. As it is, a loaf of nice whole wheat
and/or sourdough round from the grocery store bakery resides in the
freezer. I'd say it takes me about 3 months to consume a loaf of bread.
I do occasionally bake cornbread and other quick batter-type breads.

Jill