/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.12056153]

Anyone here ever work at a bakery?
Is it possible to get tired of the smell of bread?
It's almost impossible for me to imagine, but then I haven't really been around a lot of bread that often.

[Anonymous No.12056173]

i worked at an industiral bakery one a conveyor with a bunch of niggers that didn't speak english and it wouldve been alright without the niggers and so much bread goes to waste. but if youre working in some twinky gay bakery that does cookies and shit id say go for it

[Anonymous No.12056193]

Once you learn the evils of grains you will never be able to bake for yourself or other people again. Unless you are into poisoning people, of course.

[Anonymous No.12056207]

>>12056193
Tell me the secrets of the dark seeds

[Anonymous No.12056221]

I worked in a twinky gay bakery at uni. All we sold was bread, pizza and cinnamon rolls since pizza and cinnamon rolls are basically bread with other shit on them.
Besides the owner, there were four of us working there. We kneaded a huge amount of dough at a time in a vat the size of a bathtub using fucking oars because muh artisanal baked goods and using an orbital mixer would've been cheating or something, idk.
Got jacked AF lugging around huge sacks of flour and kneading blobs of dough weighing more than I do.

But enough of my life story: you don't exactly get tired of the smell, you just get used to it. You stop noticing the odour of the bakery on you altogether, but everyone around you will tell you constantly about how good you smell when you get off work.

>>12056173
Was this in the US and, if so, did your job offer insurance coverage for white lung?

[Anonymous No.12056234]

>>12056221
>but everyone around you will tell you constantly about how good you smell when you get off work.
nice

>twinky gay bakery
is this some meme I'm not in on?

[Anonymous No.12057009]

>>12056153
I worked at a bakery for about six months. I never got tired of the smell of bread: when I came in it was always lovely, though by the time I left my nose had tuned it out.

[Anonymous No.12057024]

I worked at a Bagelry in Washington state from about 19-21yo. And actually what I remember most was the smell of the donut shop down the street as I was walking to and from work. I should have wandered down there with a bag of bagels for a trade but I never did.

When I lived in Germany, the smell of bread downtown was intoxicating. I had a friend who lived above a bakery. Every time I visited her I dropped a few Euros and pigged out.

I've been meaning to bake more but my yeast is dead. Must buy more yeast and try out some Dutch oven loaves.

[Anonymous No.12057037]

>>12056193
>when you see a random video on the internet and cease eating something people have been enjoying for millenia because the man on the video said so

[Anonymous No.12057052]

>>12056153
>bread touching that rusty, grimy floor in the van
No thanks.

[Anonymous No.12057134]

>>12056153
You don't get tired of it, you just stop noticing it.

[Anonymous No.12057190]

>>12056221
There was a BBC show called ‘Victorian Bakers’ that had bakers reenact the baking techniques from victorian times and just before.
One section had the bakers mixing dough in the manner that it would have been mixed in during Victorian sweat shop bakery conditions. The dough was mixed in a giant tub, and one of the vakers got fed up trying to knead the dough, so he took off his shoes and socks snd started walking on the dough to knead it.

[Anonymous No.12057223]

>>12056153
I was a pastry guy for a few years. The hours suck ass but your forearms will get huge

[Anonymous No.12057269]

>>12057052
>eating bread without washing it first

[Anonymous No.12057409]

I am working in a bakery in switzerland for three years now. I really dont like my job so i guess i got tired of it.
Nontheless i love baking at home and thats where i can still enjoy the smell of bread.

[Anonymous No.12057446]

>>12056153
I don't know about tired of it. I got kind of immune to it, though. I mean, a batch near done or fresh out of the oven always smells decent, but you get used to it. The other smells, like the all-pervasive subtle smell of flour gets tiresome. Fermentation can get tiresome, particularly when it's that lingering just yeasty tang sort of smell, but I found that a break from it for a few days made me miss it, or if I did not miss it at the time, it hit me positively when I got back to it. Sometimes, even if I was tired of it, a different batch fermenting would hit the sweet spot and wake up my senses without concentrating on it. Butter always smells good, but that's probably because I was not constantly making butter.