Baking your own bread

Publix makes some incredible bread in their bakery section. If not for that option, I'd make more at home. Homemade bread is incredible but it's really kind of a pain in the arse, imo.

I bake bread every week. Started out making seeded whole wheat for my breakfast toast now I just started making sourdoughs with pretty good results.

I run a microbakery (ie, very small output) out of my home kitchen, and I teach baking classes several times a year.

Focaccia is an awesome beginner's bread. You can stir it up in a bowl, let it rise in the fridge overnight, then stretch-spread it on an oiled sheet pan then next AM. Let it rise for a couple hours, dimple w/fingers, and add your desired toppings & drizzle w/more oil. Here's a link to a good basic recipe: LINK

If you want to geek out on bread, see www.thefreshloaf.com

I can rec some good baking books if you're interested.

I recently started and its been pretty fun. Nothing crazy or hard; white bread, sweet potato buns, different beer breads.


If I had more free time I would venture into sourdough. But for now I stick with the simple stuff

I love homemade bread, the only problem I have with it is that I'm liable to eat the entire loaf along with a stick of butter all in one sitting.

I like how the nicer grocery stores now have take n bake bread. Its the best of both worlds. I dont have to make it from scratch but i get to bake it fresh and its very cheap

I have really tried to cut bread out of my diet, but it's incredibly difficult because I love it so much. Once in a while I'll do a loaf in the Dutch oven and my wife and I will eat it all in a day or two. We're here for a good time, not a long time, right?

I got real big into baking boules this time last year - read Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish. He’s got some good techniques if you’re looking for sour dough type bread. It’s definitely a deep deep rabbit hole.

I never went as far as making and maintaining my own starter, but some over night fermentation gave it more complexity than his Saturday bread. I was satisfied with my results:

Paging Weskarl.







Oh nvm


I fell into said rabbit hole

Isn’t a starter required for sourdough? I’d really like to start making my own bread every now and again but seems tough. Also, what is the point of this bread maker I have sitting in my garage? Is that even necessary?