Do you buy your bread at a bread store?

I bake our bread.

Tom

 

I learned to bake bread at a young age, and when I got lazier after a few decades, used a bread maker. It wasn't quite the same, but it's definitely more convenient. Due to a major change in diet about 10 years ago, I rarely eat the stuff any more. Whatever kind it is the rest of the family eats, it looks healthful, with lots of nuts and seeds. The pasty white stuff isn't good enough for the birds, let alone humans.

 

If you like using a breadmaker but don't like the paddles baked into the bottom of the loaf, simply take the bread out of the machine when it's ready to start its final rise and bake cycle. Knead the dough out on the floured counter and remove the paddle (or paddles, if you have a horizontal breadmaker). This accomplishes two things, no paddles baked into the bread and a much smoother uniform, ie professional looking loaf. You can also use oats, sunflower seeds, etc instead of just flour and make slits to fancy up your homemade loaf.

 

Yes to the question.

Wonder if a poll can be added to this thread?

 

We bake our own. I once read the ingredients on a loaf of bread.

We do a no-knead, wet dough in cast iron loaf pans. See: Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

 

I hear what you're saying, but most of the convenience of a breadmaker is tossing in the ingredients and setting the timer for the morning.

 

Oh, you don't want to do that. Once you've developed that habit, you might have to stop eating 'food' that comes in boxes and cans, and eat only things that don't need a list of ingredients.

 

we buy at the supermarket, the local market, the bread store (panera), the farmers market and my daughter has a bread machine. whatever suits our fancy i guess or is convenient at the time.

 

I thought the world
Was sugar cake
For so our master said.
But, now I'll teach
My hands to bake
Our loaf of daily bread.

 

^ Marie ?

In cooler weather most of the bread is homemade by hand. Pita, specifically.
I bought a zujirushi bread maker but I like European type bread and have not been satisfied with the results. This year I'll try part breadmaker, part manual.

 

I obtain my bread from an one eyed old hermit lady that lives in the darkest part of the woods. Her bread isn't particularly good, and I'm pretty sure it contains hair and what appears to be pieces of teeth or bone...but I'm assured it's organic, and if I stop buying from her? I will be cursed in unimaginable ways...

 

That is the hope, yes. I am getting there. Simple method is to just avoid the central sections of the grocery, and just walk around the outside edge.

 

I make my own, although like some I sometimes let the bread maker do all the hard stuff. We don't go through enough bread to justify buying the pasty white stuff at the store....which really isn't bread at all.
One of the advantages on living down here is that we can get a lot of vegetables, eggs and such from friends and neighbors.
"Organic" is just a fancy word for how most of my neighbors have been doing things all along.

 

A vegetarian diet based on food staples (not the metal kind ) is sensible, tasty, frugal, environmental, and healthy. We very rarely buy cans, and more important to me, severely cut down plastics use.

 

We don't eat of a lot of bread. It's not good for you.

 

I don't eat bread that much, but when I do, I buy it from Whole Foods ($2.29).

 

OK grocery store usually. But I have a gasoline-powered bread machine we use when gas is <$2/gal.
OK I lied its Hitachi electric used in winter. I also make Betty Crocker orig cookbook Nutbread.