Bread

[Anonymous No.19844696]

Realistically, is it cheaper/ better to make my own bread at home?

[Anonymous No.19844703]

Cheaper, yes, better, no
Until you level up
I worked as a baker for three years and I still have no idea how I did it

[Anonymous No.19844704]

>>19844696
nope. they want you to eat their slop. if you buy enough to make it worth it in bulk, you need to share with others and work it full-time.

[Anonymous No.19844733]

>>19844696
One kilogram is $1 here.
With this I can make 32 wheat tortillas.
Or 4 loaves of bread.

How many tortillas or loaves of bread can you buy for one dollar?

[Anonymous No.19844744]

>>19844733
The dumpster behind the bakery has free bread, idiot.

[Anonymous No.19845197]

>>19844696
The issue is it stales in 10 seconds.

[Anonymous No.19845210]

>>19844744
>dumpster: free bread
>park: free ducks

[Anonymous No.19845228]

>>19844696
>Realistically, is it cheaper/ better to make my own bread at home?
debatable, really. Are you buying packets of yeast in 3packs, in an industrial sized jar, or making a biga dough you feed and perpetually keep alive. home flour prices are also not necessarily economical in 5lb sizes

You should still have a home supply of yeast and flour, for the apocalypse, and make a weekly or biweekly loaf, but maybe you'd be just a happy with a bread machine.

As another said, indian style flatbreads are cheapest.

[Anonymous No.19845231]

Sure it's cheaper if your time is worthless.

[Anonymous No.19845235]

for me, it's making circular breads that are covered in seeds. for some reason, in USA anyway, people are very stingy with seeds as if they are very expensive. they only use sesame as decoration on burgers

[Anonymous No.19845254]

>>19844696
Making your own bread is great. Cheaper/better is up to you to decide but for me it's definitely worth it if you keep it simple. I used the recipe in this vid with great success. I'll usually make 4 loaves and freeze 3, it's a lot cheaper than bakery and even cheaper than grocery store.

https://youtu.be/Z-husjZkxHw?si=9LHoc9pJ4A5gHTNu

[Anonymous No.19845384]

>>19845228
Keeping a lot of flour around brings bugs over here. But it might just be the shitty store packaging.

[Anonymous No.19845410]

>>19844696
which episode is it when gordon makes that face?

[Anonymous No.19845444]

>>19844696
Are you in the US buying store bread? It won’t be cheaper to make your own. Especially if you factor in your labor. Are you buying bakery bread? It might be cheaper. “Better”? I don’t know what that means. You can get more variety for sure. Back when I worked the trades I’d toss some mix in the bread machine every few nights. Much “better” than regular sandwich bread from the store.

[Anonymous No.19845515]

>>19844696
>Cheaper
No, you are not going to beat industrial economies of scale unless you are making artisan loaves that they sell at Publix/Wegman's
>Better
Also no, baking is a science and the dirty secret is all those dough conditioners they add on the ingredient list like Sodium Stearoyl Lactylat and Diastatic Malt Powder are they in use for a good reason and you'll never get the same end result using humble cupboard ingredients.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad8vLe6K41c

[Anonymous No.19845729]

>>19845231
so it's cheaper for everyone on /ck/ then, good to know

[Anonymous No.19845737]

>>19845197
another benefit of making at home, you can make different sized loafs

[Anonymous No.19845820]

My attempts always come out flat and hard. Never fluffy. Never seems to rise well either. Feels bad man.

[Anonymous No.19845850]

>>19845820
Same, shit sucks

[Anonymous No.19846666]

>>19845210

[Anonymous No.19846686]

>>19845820
>>19845850
Just get pic related and your problems will be solved, you guys must be trying to wing it or use some bullshit y*utuber recipe

[Anonymous No.19846688]

>>19846686
wish i had a round faced asian gf to make me bread

[Anonymous No.19846691]

>>19846666
so who was in the right? and checked

[Anonymous No.19846695]

>>19846691
right?

[Anonymous No.19846699]

>>19844703
You're fucking retarded then. The first loaf of bread I ever made was sourdough that blew the fuck out of every single sourdough I've ever had except $8-10+ loaves. A few years later and I've never had a loaf of bread from any bakery or restaurant that tastes better than what I can make.

[Anonymous No.19846719]

>>19846699
Same. I'm surprised so many people are saying it's not better. I don't consider myself a great baker or anything but my janky home made baguettes are still way better than stuff from the bakery. Store bought bread is just completely ruined for me now. The trade off hinges on whether you're willing to take the time making it yourself.

[Anonymous No.19846738]

>>19846719
Depends a lot of the bakeries/bread you have around.

[Anonymous No.19846768]

>>19845850
nice color though

[Anonymous No.19846849]

>>19846691
me, chef of meat press

[Anonymous No.19846980]

>>19846738
Actual skill issue

[Anonymous No.19846987]

>>19846666
Based
I want to eat an entire jar of nitrate now

[Anonymous No.19847198]

>>19844696
I just took this one out of the oven. It's for sure cheaper but for me the most important thing is how fucking good fresh homemade bread is.

[Anonymous No.19847215]

>>19846849
Solid
I did once make a ham with too much using an old French recipe, it was insanely delicious but if you had more than half a pound or so it would make your mouth tingle

[Anonymous No.19848669]

>americans in charge of bread

[Anonymous No.19848680]

not worth it unless you eat a loaf every day or 2

[Anonymous No.19849462]

Sandwich loaves are like $4-5 around me. I can get 5 lbs of flour with that. Thats enough to make six loaves with extra flour for keeping a starter going so you don't need to buy extra yeast. Using a no knead recipe you can spend 30 mins all in across a weekend to make a loaf and freeze it for use during the week.

[Anonymous No.19849468]

>>19849462
>5# bag of flour
>Not 50#
my guy you really gotta buy bulk to make artisanal loaves for your own tastes. The small bags are best for low-percentage mix ins (10% or less) or where bulk isn't sold (masa harina, spelt, etc.). What kinda bread you making?

[Anonymous No.19850182]

>>19845231
You don't spend all your time working. If you did you wouldn't post here.

[Anonymous No.19850869]

>>19844696
this weeks bread, it's good.

[Anonymous No.19850875]

>>19844696
For the cost of a single loaf of the cheapest supermarket bread, I can make five loaves of good, fresh homemade bread with no kike poisons.

[Anonymous No.19850903]

>>19845515
> and you'll never get the same end result
thats right, because I get better results.

[Anonymous No.19850909]

>>19845515
The good reason is that the bread stores and ships better that way. It doesn't taste better or have better texture though.

[Anonymous No.19851052]

>>19845254
ty for the vid im gonna make these tomorrow

[Anonymous No.19851056]

>>19850869
Mmm, aged asphalt.

[Anonymous No.19851478]

The question is if it’s actually worth doing
https://tools.myfooddata.com/nutrition-facts/169761/200cals/10

[Anonymous No.19851509]

>>19844696
Shitty store sliced bread is probably killing us.
Or you can go for the bakery stuff but it's either moldy, or hard as a rock, within like a day.
Honestly if it were just me I'd just stop buying bread entirely, but that would never fly with my wife. And my kid will old enough for solid food before too long.

Been seriously thinking about getting one of those fancy Zojirushi bread machines and just making a loaf every other day.

[Anonymous No.19851656]

>>19851509
Been a long time since I tried a bread maker. They only did an OK job back then I wonder if they are better now. They're like the rice cooker of the bread world. Sure you can do it yourself (picrel I just lifted out of my oven) but when you can just throw everything in and press a button there are certainly some benefits.

[Anonymous No.19851661]

>>19846719
I bought a baguette from Lidl and noticed it almost completely lacked any taste, and the bit of taste was cheap and paper-like.
Bread from an actual bakery is better, but still factory bread in many cases.
I can only imagine baking your own bread makes a world of difference.
My mom used to bake bread but I was very young so don't remember it.

[Anonymous No.19851677]

>>19849462
Do you ever make a hoagie?

[Anonymous No.19853131]

>>19845210
Mr Law has an ongoing trial for selling sodium nitrite to people who ate too much and died.

[Anonymous No.19853147]

>>19846666
>sodium nitrate = sodium nitrite
Yeah, ok.