/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>8513952
>no profit in baking bread unless
>charging stupid hipsters outrageous prices
This is it exactly. My wife is an artisan baker, and we've been running the numbers on possible businesses around it for years. None of them look all that good. Bread baking is not a terribly profitable business to begin with, and the man hours involved in making bread better than mediocre at best industrially produced stuff pretty much assures the selling price has to be in the luxury food range. And she bristles at the idea that good things should only be for the rich. But the fact is that in an industrialized world good food made by hand from simple ingredients is a fucking luxury. If you want to eat bread on the level of what's in this pic >>8513904 you have two options: shell out the $$$ or learn to make it yourself. Because there's no way to set up a business baking that kind of bread and selling it for reasonable prices unless you're part of a Mennonite community or hippie commune where labor is practically free. In any other scenario good bread is a luxury product, and has to be priced accordingly.

Pic related. It's the 16" boule from Balthazar. It is excellent, and costs a dollar an inch.