Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What does running the oven for 45 minutes cost? Anything significant? I guess gas would be negligible but electric might really cost something. Not as much as a Starbucks... - - from my iRabs. Mark Rabiner http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ > From: "Matthew B. Filippini" <filippiniaia at hotmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 15:25:39 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] Would you trade your M9 to go back to an M8?/Bread > > > I love baking bread. I haven't bought bread since November 2003, when I > started making my own every week. > > Yesterday for my family's Easter dinner, I brought a loaf of white, a loaf > of > light rye, and a loaf of sourdough 7-grain bread (homemade sourdough > starter). > > For a good bread flour, it costs about $3.50 for 5 pounds in here Chicago, > which will make about 6 loaves, so we are at ~58 cents a loaf for flour > (there > are much cheaper flours available as well). Add a little yeast, salt, & > water > to make a basic bread, 45 minutes of running the oven, and you get a > beautiful > loaf of bread for well under a dollar. > > Matt > >> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Tina Manley wrote: >> >> I bake all of my own bread and the rye is wonderful (if I do say >> so>myself). >> It might be cheaper to buy Wonderbread but you will pay for it >> later with health problems. >> >> Tina >> >> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> >> wrote: >> I met a guy the other day who bakes his own rye bread. >> I'm going to do the same. I don't care if my oven melts my refrigerator. >> >> - - from my iRabs.> Mark Rabiner> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ >> >> >> -- Tina Manley, ASMPwww.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information