[Elaine Cooks (and sometimes has other projects)] TaT #1: Baking Bread

[dancingyel]

I'm still looking for suggestions for the 2nd half of my list! I've gotten a few, but I'm not quite at 30 yet, so there's room for more. Thanks to all my friends who came up with interesting things for me to try, btw

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[plymouth]

A few thoughts on things to do

[dancingyel]

Hee, thanks for all the ideas! I will have to contemplate more. A few are almost definitely both my thing and doable, some are my thing but probably not doable due to constraints (travel to a new foreign country is expensive!), and some are really not my thing (I will never fly an airplane, or go up with someone in a tiny plane unless I'm skydiving and have a parachute already on, and even then it's a hard sell). Definitely some list-worthy candidates on there!

Also, I'm amused that another of my friends also gave me some ideas and then was like, "wait, maybe I should do some of these myself!"

How does a breadmaker work? Do you just put ingredients in there and it does its thing without further input from you?

[auros]

How does a breadmaker work? Do you just put ingredients in there and it does its thing without further input from you?

More or less. There are some breads where you're supposed to come back when it beeps and add an additional ingredient -- typically that will be the case if you want to fold in dried fruit or chocolate chips or something, and I think there are some "swirled" type breads with similar requirements. But for a basic loaf, yeah, you dump everything in, and in a few hours you get bread.

I bought Xta a high-end model for Pick Your Favorite Winter Holiday; it's significantly better than the one we used to have (which got damaged a few years ago, and they no longer made parts for it).