Daily bread

[Anonymous No.16998572]

Why do people buy bread at the supermarket? Don't they know they don't have to live like that?

[Anonymous No.16998594]

I don't even really want bread, I make it to have a reason to play with dough

[Anonymous No.16998597]

>>16998594

[Anonymous No.16998611]

>>16998572
People are lazy and buy what their household has always bought.

>>16998594
Bead is good for day laboring and fiber.

[Anonymous No.16999144]

>>16998572
Guys, electricity is very expensive. If you calculate the expenses, 2 pounds of supermarket bread cost about 2.30$
While 2 pounds of flour cost about 0.65$

However, to baje bread you either need a bread cooker or an oven. The first has less watts than the second, but it costs around 60-70$.
An oven is usually around 2500 watts. Running an oven is very expensive. I would LOVE to make my own bread, but the ONLY reason I don't is the cost. If you could change my mind on this, I'd really appreciate it!

[Anonymous No.16999152]

>>16998572
why would you waste time making bread when you could go to a bakery?

[Anonymous No.16999153]

looks good anon but you woulda really knocked it out of the park with an egg wash

[Anonymous No.16999267]

>>16999144
You know that you don't have to cook the bread right? That's how Flatbread stays flat.

[Anonymous No.16999332]

>>16999267
What?
If I don't cook dough, I'm more likely to get poisoned or digest it incorrectly. We cook dough. What do you mean raw bread?

[Anonymous No.16999421]

>>16999267
Pull yourself together.

[Anonymous No.16999424]

>>16999267
Uncooked bread. Are you even listening to yourself? Since when did people eat uncooked bread? All these years of humankind, never! Never have we decided that raw dough is goid for us.

[Anonymous No.16999450]

>>16998572
You have too much time on your hands. I don't like baking. Better to buy good quality bread than use HOURS on mediocre self made bread. Bread is not expensive.

[Anonymous No.16999456]

I just use a breadmaker. I only eat bread once a month or so. I don't like baking anymore.

[Anonymous No.16999465]

>>16999450
This. I just buy bread from bakeries.

[Anonymous No.16999475]

>>16998572
People who never bake bread seem to have this idea that it's a lot of work and makes a big mess.

[Anonymous No.16999485]

>>16999475
People who bake bread always try and make it seem like it's as simple as making instant noodles.

[Anonymous No.16999495]

>>16999450
>bread is not expensive
1.10$ a pound bitch

[Anonymous No.16999496]

>>16998572
american bread is like cake and i dont know why

[Anonymous No.16999499]

>>16999495
Yeah because I eat 5 pounds of bread a day...
Bread is light you retard. I want to kill you.

[Anonymous No.16999500]

>>16999267
Who told you to eat uncooked bread? It's basically dough, which contains allots of bacterium if not cocked!
Unbelievable!

[Anonymous No.16999505]

>>16999499
You should buy food based on it's weight. Bread is flour, which costs 30 cents a pound. 30 cents is a big difference from 1.10$. 80 cents difference!
You eat to pive, don't waste money on "light bread". Eat the fruit. Drink the tomato passsta.

[Anonymous No.16999524]

I get it from bakers delight

[Anonymous No.16999531]

>>16999505
I barely eat bread once a month faggot.

[Anonymous No.16999532]

For me? I like to go with some classic grade A Texas toast. Cannot steer you wrong.

[Anonymous No.16999660]

>>16998572
Why eat bread when you can just eat your own sister's beautiful little pink vulva?

[Anonymous No.16999697]

>>16999450
It's like a dollar a loaf

[Anonymous No.16999705]

>>16998572
Man i wish i could have bread. I would make some sourdough but bread constipates me.

[Anonymous No.17000285]

>>16999144
>Running an oven is very expensive
Do Europeans really?

[Anonymous No.17000289]

>>16999152
>could go to a bakery?
Do you have a time machine or something?

[Anonymous No.17000294]

>>16999660
I don't have a sister

[Anonymous No.17000295]

>>16999465
What kind of crappy neighborhood do you live in that a bakery can afford rent?

[Anonymous No.17000303]

>>16999450
>t. never made a loaf in his life
My hardtack tastes better than store-bought bread.

[Anonymous No.17000314]

>>16999450
I put the ingredients in a bread maker pushed a button and in two hours I had dough. Then I put it on a pan to rise and popped it in the oven. It's not time consuming. I was shitposting between steps.

[Anonymous No.17000368]

>>16998572
Yeast filters me. Im ashamed to admit it. I always fuck it up

[Anonymous No.17000371]

Inb4
>some of us have jobs and a life
No you dont.

[Anonymous No.17000377]

>>17000285
Yes. Electricity is very expensive Thomas Edison.

[Anonymous No.17000382]

>>17000303
Yes, anon. You are the greatest baker in the world. Everything my local bakery makes is shit compared to what you make.

[Anonymous No.17000406]

>>16998572
bcos im European and bread is so cheap and consistently high quality that i cant be arsed to make my own every time i want bread. i make my own occasionally tho, and its always better than the ones in my local shqiptar bakery

[Anonymous No.17000455]

>>17000289
even walmart has a bakery at their deli. I'm not sure what you're on about. in the us we even have a fast casual chain of bakeries called panera.

[Anonymous No.17000477]

>>16998594
Based

[Anonymous No.17001269]

>>17000382
I'm glad you understand

[Anonymous No.17001283]

>>16999450
You've never eaten good quality bread if you're relying on modern bakeries, most of whom use mixes and emulsifiers and whatnot. Actually good bread you'll find in very few bakeries these days.

[Anonymous No.17001291]

>>16998572
I don't buy bread because I don't eat bread.

[Anonymous No.17001307]

I bleeping love bread, bros. I'd make it even if I were celiac.

[Anonymous No.17001342]

>>17000295
Germany. Almost every village has a bakery and in cities there's a bakery in your 500m radius.

[Anonymous No.17001366]

>>17001283
Sorry, but I very probably don't live in the same place as you. How would you know I can't buy good quality bread? Are you a wizard? Every place isn't the same friend. They don't use emulsifiers but basic ingredients. Stop making stuff up.

[Anonymous No.17001375]

>>17001366
They'll tell you about it someday

[Anonymous No.17001712]

If you were gonna eat fresh yeast-leavened bread every day the way like a cheap college student eats rice cooker rice every day, what's the cheapest appliance setup with the least manual labor that would work? Not including pan fried flatbread on a hotplate kinda shit. I always figured a breadmaker (combination of a shitty mixer and shitty electric cooker) would break down in a month if someone used it every day.

[Anonymous No.17001735]

Why would I spend my time buying the ingredients and making bread when I can pick up a loaf of Italian bread for $1.69 at the grocery store that someone there made? The cost/benefit ratio is not there to justify it.

[Anonymous No.17001783]

I try to only spend 30 minutes per day in the kitchen, including cooking and cleaning. I can make a loaf of bread in about ten minutes with a stand mixer (not including the idle time) but fuck that shit nigga. What am I gonna eat? Bread? With what? No time nigga, no time!

[Anonymous No.17001814]

>>16999144
what are you saying, it costs you 60 bucks to run your oven for an hour? do you live in the north pole or something?

[Anonymous No.17001887]

I don't wanna make a mess making dough and kneading it then waiting for it to rise and all that gay shit. not worth it

[Anonymous No.17001974]

whats a nice idiot proof recipe for a loaf of bread I can make weekly

[Anonymous No.17001987]

>>17001712
Probably "no knead" bread, a baking tin, and a toaster oven. Mix a shaggy dough directly in the tin in the evening, fold it a bit an hour or so later and use it to clean down the sides, bake it in the morning.

[Anonymous No.17001991]

>>17000294
>He doesn't live next to a school
Ngmi

[Anonymous No.17002045]

>>16999144
$7.88 for the entire year if I were to bake 1 loaf of bread a day running my oven for 40 minutes assuming 2.3kWh at 10.806 ¢.

You're a fucking retard nigger.

[Anonymous No.17002060]

every time i've tried to make bread before it comes out as dense and very yeasty tasting. I wish i could make bread as tasty as the supermarket makes it.

[Anonymous No.17002562]

>>17001974
2 cups flour (280 grams)
¾ cup water
2 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1¾ teaspoon yeas
Mix and let it rise twice before baking for 40 minutes at 375° F.

[Anonymous No.17002588]

>>16999144
>39 cents an hour assuming it's using the full 2500 watts the entire time it's on no matter the heat setting, which is absolutely not the case

[Anonymous No.17002637]

>>17001712
Use a rice cooker

[Anonymous No.17002686]

>>16999144
>what the fuck is a natural gas oven?

[Anonymous No.17002699]

>>16998572
runescape lookin ass bread

[Anonymous No.17002736]

>>16999144
the bakers at the supermarket fuck the bread
.t supermarket baker

[Anonymous No.17003055]

>>17000285
They are all literally about to have to burn coal to keep their houses warm this winter, what do you think?

[Anonymous No.17003199]

>bread thread
>one poster made bread
Make that two, chuds

[Anonymous No.17003219]

>>17000368
How do you fuck up yeast? It's super easy.

Just pour the packet of yeast into a bowl with a little warm water and a pinch of sugar to feed the little guys, and they'll revive in a couple minutes 90% of the time.

[Anonymous No.17003391]

>>17003199
Fucking nerd I bet you grow your own yeast too.

[Anonymous No.17003440]

I'd love to make my own burger buns but they are never soft enough. Bowl of water in the oven and putting the result into plastic bags after it has cooled enough it's not going to melt them help but it's still not soft enough.

[Anonymous No.17003441]

>>17003391
Yeah i harvested it out of you're moms snatch

[Anonymous No.17004363]

bread

[Anonymous No.17004368]

>>17001814
I used to live near the northpole and electricity was basically free or just included in the rent and I had my tv and netflix machine on 24/7.

[Anonymous No.17004593]

>>17003440
Use a tangzhong, brush them with butter after they come out of the oven.

[Anonymous No.17004599]

>>16998572
Because I only eat bread maybe twice a month and I'm not a broke student anymore, saving $2 isn't that useful to me. A professional baker with access to hundreds of kinds of flour and a professional oven is going to do a better job no matter what, don't kid yourself, that loaf looks mediocre

[Anonymous No.17004608]

>>17000314
>all I had to do was multiple steps and several hours of babysitting, because my time has no value
Some of us work for a living, you know.

[Anonymous No.17004622]

>>17003055
lmao fucking yuropoors

[Anonymous No.17004625]

>>17004368
Shit then I guess my electricity is free too in California. It was included in my rent.

[Anonymous No.17004635]

>>17001342
I would love to see the business figures for these village bakeries considering how little bread the average modern person eats and how cheap bread is.

[Anonymous No.17004886]

>>17004635
In Germany bread is still very popular. The bakeries are often local chains though that got delivered the dough, breads or bread rolls and just bake them fresh there. They also often have a build in cafe where pensioners meat similar to bars. So they make lots of money with cheap ass to produce coffee and expensive cakes or tortes. We also have bakery trucks that sell bread and sometimes also sausages from local butchers in villages with no bakeries anymore, because they were unprofitable.
Bread is still cheap enough that nobody wastes his time (not even pensioners) on making it themselfs. Especially not complicated ones like schwarzbrot.

[Anonymous No.17004916]

during last year's lockdown yeast disappeared from supermarkets here in Italy, so I started learning about sourdough bread and made myself a starter.
By now, my routine is basically 2 feedings a week and I bake once a week on my day off: it's not perfect because of how I treat my starter, but it's extremely low effort and way, way better than anything from local bakeries or supermarkets.

Industrial bread is awful and no one should eat it.

[Anonymous No.17004939]

I'll occasionally do a no-knead, Dutch oven bread. But honestly, I don't go through that much bread and end up chucking it out or, if I'm not feeling lazy, making French toast with the stale ass bread I don't eat. Any of the more involved bread-making processes are a no-go because I have no kitchen counter space for kneading or rolling.

[Anonymous No.17004952]

Post bread

>>17004916
Looks good, man.
I want to start practicing with sourdough again. I have starter in the fridge, but I haven't touched it since January, I can't imagine it not being pure death now lol

[Anonymous No.17004959]

>>17004952
>Post bread
I will.

[Anonymous No.17004967]

>>17004959

[Anonymous No.17005051]

>>17004916
Yeast was missing for at least 6 months in Canada. I only buy a large package once a year so can't say about it's availability since I managed to get some.

[Anonymous No.17005085]

>>16998572
>Why do people buy bread at the supermarket?
Because they can't be bothered baking it at home, duh.
Same reason why people eat so much takeout.
Also you just need to realize that in many countries dedicated bakers still exist and their product is just straight out better than what I ever managed. It's not like I have to resign myself to disastrous supermarket bread made last month and stored ever since.

[Anonymous No.17005217]

>>16999485
Bread can get very complex, like week-long starter recipes. But a basic loaf is very simple.
Mix
>2 tsp yeast
>1 tsp sugar
>3 cups flour
> 1 cup water
>1 tsp salt

You may have to adjust slightly to get the consistency right (more flour or water). Once mixed, cover and let it rise for 2 or 3 hours. Then shape it however you want (use a mold if you're real lazy). Coat in an egg wash, add poppy/sesame seeds, and bake 450 F for 25 ish mins

[Anonymous No.17005234]

>>17005217
That seems like very little sugar. Can the yeast feed off of the flour too?

[Anonymous No.17005242]

>>16999485
Bread making is actually very simple and not as precise as people think. People get scared of it because retards make videos talking about precise water temperatures and whatnot, when in reality is quite a simple process.

[Anonymous No.17005246]

>>17005234
You don't need any sugar at all.

[Anonymous No.17005248]

>>17005234
Not him, but sugar is not necessary at all for breads. It's an addition that imparts flavor as well as a more golden crust and some tenderness in the crumb as well as acting as a preservative, but not necessary. The yeast feeds of starches in the flour.

[Anonymous No.17005260]

>>17005234
Like others have said, you really don't need sugar, but it's ok to add a little. I've done it without and it comes out fine all the same.

[Anonymous No.17005280]

>>17005217
>a basic loaf
>sugar
What the fuck. Maybe in enriched breads, certainly not in your basic everyday loaf.

[Anonymous No.17005295]

>>17005280
again, the sugar is optional but helps feed the yeast

[Anonymous No.17005330]

>>17005295
>helps feed the yeast
The yeast is surrounded by flour anon. It's literally dissolved in (complex but nonetheless edible) sugars it can feed on.