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> As an aside, my personal view is that making your own butter doesn't provide anywhere near the same return on investment as making your own bread - home made
by sp0rk 3y ago
> As an aside, my personal view is that making your own butter doesn't provide anywhere near the same return on investment as making your own bread - home made butter takes ages, doesn't really taste that much better, and can cost more money, while home made bread doesn't take that long, and can taste a lot better.
There is a good book called "Make the Bread, Buy the Butter" which covers what foods give the best return on time, effort, and money invested.
- ghaff 3y agoIt probably depends if you have a good baker near you. (I really don't although some of the local "craft" breads carried by a couple local stores aren't bad.) But philosophically, it makes a lot of sense generally. You're not going to make everything from scratch or near-scratch so it makes sense to focus on the stuff you can't readily buy or which you genuinely enjoy the making process.
- akiselev 3y agoIt really depends on the kind of bread you like too. It's true for bog standard wheat sourdoughs and stuff but not for more complex breads like borodinsky [1] which has steps that take several days and include everything from boiling water to molasses. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borodinsky_bread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borodinsky_bread