A Good Imagination and a Pile of Junk

This started as a comment on I Think Therefore I Blog, but I got a little windy so I cut it short over there.

As an almost “long time” baker (does 7 years count?) I finally succumbed to the pressure to buy a bread machine. It’s always seemed like cheating to me.

But I’ve got to say the results are absolutely stellar. I use it for a couple things:

• Bread to be ready when I get up in the morning (I try to keep this to a minimum.) Perhaps it’s a sign of getting old but I’d sure rather be woken up by the smell of bread than… well, nevermind.

• Testing ingredient combinations. This is awesome. If I have a “I wonder what would happen if I threw THAT in to a loaf” thought (which only happens a few times a day while sitting at my desk trading) I just set it up and let it go. If I like the result out of the machine THEN I do the real bread crafting work.

Got a loaf going now.  It’s just too rimey out not to have fresh bread.

Tags: Baking

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