And much like everyone I’ve ever loved it’s toxically bad for me

In the famous words of Scott Pilgrim: “BREAD MAKES YOU FAT?!”

Gluten is my mortal enemy. The things eating it for decades did to me were most certainly evil.

I’m no Luddite, but the idea of a “bread machine” has always seemed wrong to me. A machine half the size of R2D2, that’s half mixer, half oven. And they “recommend” bespoke flours and mixes that demand obscene markups. All to produce mediocre loves.

Anyone can do better with basic equipment and cheap supplies. But not everyone will do better and that’s fine. It’s just that you could get bakery fresh delivered for like a year before you’d approach the upfront cost of those monstrosities.