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My domestication is complete
- Thread starter Peter McFerrin
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I'm baking bread from scratch for the second time this week--because I want to.
I'm with ya brother. Sure I'm a long, long way from domesticated (really, a long way) but I do love baking bread. In fact, my dad and I used to do it just about every Saturday when I was a kid.
Got any tips? I've got an awesome zwiebach recipe (my mums) that I haven't had a chance to try yet. Hopefully in the next few days.
-Nate
These food related threads are great. It's been a long while since I made bread, last time I did the class was stopped as a dough fight started.
So when is the surgery ?
Are they doing the "full monty" the first time, or just halfsies now, finish the job later?
(And yeah, I got room to talk about being "domesticated", with a wife and 4 stepkids!
By the way, I love baking stuff, particularly fresh bread! 
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Man, I love baking bread!!!!
I used to be the head baker on the night shift at a local artisan bakery. I would make sweet, sourdough, wheat, rye, ciabatta, I loved it.
If you can get a stone for your oven do it, that way you arent relying on pans and can have some fun with the forms and shapes of the loaves.
I used to be the head baker on the night shift at a local artisan bakery. I would make sweet, sourdough, wheat, rye, ciabatta, I loved it.
If you can get a stone for your oven do it, that way you arent relying on pans and can have some fun with the forms and shapes of the loaves.
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Now I'm hungry for fresh, warm, out of the oven bread. Tear the bread into a few pieces and spread soft butter on it. Dip it in really good chili.
Where can you get real bread? They don't have bakeries anymore. What happened to bakeries? The supermarket is NOT a bakery. Some of us have NO idea how to bake break but we're still hungry. When England takes over again, I hope we have bakeries.
Where can you get real bread? They don't have bakeries anymore. What happened to bakeries? The supermarket is NOT a bakery. Some of us have NO idea how to bake break but we're still hungry. When England takes over again, I hope we have bakeries.
Do they have Panera in Boulder? They bake on site.
As for fresh bakeries, they don't exist anymore because Americans have gigantic refrigerators and pantries that can store huge amounts of food, making it more worthwhile to go to the supermarket once a week instead of going to local food providers--bakeries, fruit/veggie markets, butcher shops, etc.--every day. We have those gigantic refrigerators and pantries because 1) land is cheap here, 2) automobile travel is cheap and in many cases heavily subsidized (i.e., mandatory free parking requirements) and 3) our tax policies encourage people to put their money into residential real estate instead of saving it.
The only reason France still has all of its boulangeries is that the government subsidizes the bejeezus out of them for the sake of preserving a piece of cultural heritage.
As for fresh bakeries, they don't exist anymore because Americans have gigantic refrigerators and pantries that can store huge amounts of food, making it more worthwhile to go to the supermarket once a week instead of going to local food providers--bakeries, fruit/veggie markets, butcher shops, etc.--every day. We have those gigantic refrigerators and pantries because 1) land is cheap here, 2) automobile travel is cheap and in many cases heavily subsidized (i.e., mandatory free parking requirements) and 3) our tax policies encourage people to put their money into residential real estate instead of saving it.
The only reason France still has all of its boulangeries is that the government subsidizes the bejeezus out of them for the sake of preserving a piece of cultural heritage.
I'm baking bread from scratch for the second time this week--because I want to.
It's a problem for most of us LDS guys, Peter. We're just too civilized and refined for our own good. Sometimes ya just gotta go primal, i.e. grow a beard, buy a set of leathers, join a fight club, etc.
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Mmm.... Panera is awesome. They've got them all over Sacramento and Elk Grove - I usually stop by one when I visit my family up there.
I wonder if there's a Bay Area location?
It's a problem for most of us LDS guys, Peter. We're just too civilized and refined for our own good. Sometimes ya just gotta go primal, i.e. grow a beard, buy a set of leathers, join a fight club, etc.
I fart a lot and shave only every three or four days. I'm all good.
