As someone who is enjoy eating a lot of bread (part of my Balkan culture), I'm baffled to see so much hesitation toward bread when I go abroad. I'd frequently g

As someone who is enjoy eating a lot of bread (part of my Balkan culture), I'm baffled to see so much hesitation toward bread when I go abroad. I'd frequently get plenty of food in restaurants, but not so much bread with it. Even if I get it, either it is something old or "too much white" for my taste (this means there is nothing in it useful for the body). Although we have plenty of bakeries with fresh bread 24/7, I recently started to make my own with bread maker I got as present few years ago (some Moulinex). It was sitting in a box and I decided to try it before sell it or give someone. I can say, this ended up pretty well. I always liked chemistry (mixing and weighting stuff, calculating compounds) and this happens to be essential part of bread making. After few failed attempts, my bread finally started to get desired shape and taste; my family started to like it as well. The best part is that I know what I'm putting in (I'm not so much fond of general food industry) and as a geek, I introduced some geekish stuff as well. Although bread maker automates lot of things, I'm using Emacs and ledger-cli [1] to track compounds I'm adding, including comments about finished bread. This way I can always pull what worked the best, what not and total amount of compounds I spent in a week or month. TBH, this article [2] was inspiration for tracking with Emacs. Still tons of stuff to learn, but "the project" ended up funny and very enjoyful. [1] https://www.ledger-cli.org/ https://www.ledger-cli.org/ [2] https://bofh.org.uk/2019/02/25/baking-with-emacs/ https://bofh.org.uk/2019/02/25/baking-with-emacs/