> Only if you don't value your time... ...which would otherwise be spent watching canned entertainment or going to the shop to get fresh bread... > ...and ign

> Only if you don't value your time... ...which would otherwise be spent watching canned entertainment or going to the shop to get fresh bread... > ...and ignore the energy costs of running an oven ...which are negligible > normally for most professionals it's much cheaper to earn the money... It would be if those "professionals" had to take time off work to bake bread but in practice this is not what they tend to do. I'm one of them, having baked my own bread from when I went to high school. The whole process takes several hours but the actual working time is around 10-15 minutes, tops - that is when you bake no-knead bread or use a machine to do the kneading. I start the dough after dinner when the rest of the family starts to watch some form of canned entertainment. I put the bread - two loaves - in the oven, well, in a few minutes from now - around midnight. Bake for ~32 minutes at 250°C, ready. In the intervening hours I do other things, from commenting here to hacking on things. No money spent, no billable hours lost. Also... > and buy bread that's produced in bulk ...much nicer bread which was not produced in bulk, with ingredients I know and nothing more than that. No sugar, not too much salt like so many store-bought breads, no strange 'bread improvers'. I can cut the bread as thin or thick as I like. Those 2 loaves last us (2 adults, 2 children) for about a week.