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I used freeloader as a nicer word for "vagrant". You can't buy four loaves of bread if you don't own a fridge to store it in.
by GigabyteCoin 13y ago
I used freeloader as a nicer word for "vagrant". You can't buy four loaves of bread if you don't own a fridge to store it in.
- patmcc 13y agoSmall tip: don't store bread in the fridge, it goes stale fast (and then it's cold, who wants that?).
- ams6110 13y agoHowever if there's a sale on bread you like, you can freeze it.
- elohesra 13y agoThis sounds ridiculously frugal, but if you're hard up for cash but have a freezer and a toaster, then freezing bread and toasting it up again can make some pretty awesome sandwiches. You can also stick really cheap bulk-buy cheese on it and make a mini cheese toastie. That said, if I were still poor, I wouldn't want to keep my stuff in the freezer at one of these pay-per-minute cafes, because it'd be gone by the next time you got to it. I also assume that they lock up at night, so I'm not really sure how this'd help vagrants all that much. However, if you happened to be lucky with the other people in the cafe (i.e. no-one being obnoxious or noisy), then it makes a ridiculously cheap coworking space.
- veemjeem 13y agoIf you were really poor, a bread machine is probably the easiest & cheapest way to make bread. It comes out to be around 25 cents a loaf, and you can control how much you want to make per batch. You only really need yeast and flour. However, the $25 bread machine is a small investment required.
- themodelplumber 13y agoA toaster oven with small bread pans also works great and is more versatile for about $10 more. Among other things I made sweetbread this way for several months when I was in college using instant pancake mix mixed with cracked wheat.
- dhughes 13y agoWouldn't making it by hand and throwing it in an oven be cheaper? Although it depends on your oven if gas or electric, your time and effort, how much power a bread machine uses. The oven makes bread far better than a bread machine but a bread machine is better than mass produced, sliced, preservative laden white bread. But you could time it so the bread is baked when the oven is used for cooking supper. FYI /r/breadit
- eru 13y agoMaking your bread by hand is cheaper. And I'd drop the yeast. Just do your own wild-caught sourdough. (You do need salt, however. Bread without salt doesn't really work. And water.)
- mseebach 13y agoIf you're only optimising for cost, sure. If you're also optimising for effort, yeast is a no-brainer. The machine is useful if you're not good at/willing to/able to plan a bit. You have to do a number of steps on a schedule when baking by hand, there's only one to worry about with a machine.
- eru 13y agoOh, (wild) sourdough is actually optimizing for flavour. Yeast is not a great cost in any case.
- User8712 13y agoYour every day grocery store bread tastes about the same after being frozen, and eaten later on. I know at my parent's place, my mom usually has 5 or 6 in the freezer, because she lives outside of town, so it makes more sense to stock up. I live in the city, by myself, so sometimes I'll buy a loaf, make some sandwiches, and toss the rest in the fridge. I don't mind it a little cold, and it doesn't go moldy before I'm able to eat the rest. If I buy fresh bread from the bakery or market, I just eat the entire thing within a day or two because it's delicious, and freezing would be a sin.
- jules 13y agoYou can also make your own. Not only is it cheap, easy and costs little time, it also tastes great.
- marincounty 13y agoYea--I grew up in the "if you want something to eat learn how to cook Dude". Plus, my girlfriends we so terrible(I think they were rebelling, or though it was cute?) at cooking. One of the first things I learned how to make was bread, but it always came out terrible, except pizza dough. I have perfected rice with a steamer though. Rice is cheap if you are strapped.
- jules 13y agoI can recommend this recipe: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/dining/081mrex.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/dining/081mrex.html?_r=0 (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Ah9ES2yTU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Ah9ES2yTU). It is very little total work (15 minutes max) and makes great bread, but it does require some planning ahead because of the long rise time.
- dhughes 13y agoI do that anyway even for a single loaf of bread since I hate dry, stale bread. The freezer keeps it fresh and to make toast just throw the frozen slices into a toaster, no need to thaw first.
- ericcumbee 13y agoI do that with the Day Old bread store.
- 72deluxe 13y agoVery true. We don't eat enough bread to keep the loaf fresh for its lifetime, and we are then left with chucking bread out. Instead, we split the loaf and use slices as necessary.
- Crito 13y agoMicrowaving bread briefly can make it de-stale long enough to eat.
- jamesbritt 13y agoWrap it in a damp paper towel when you do this to infuse some moisture.
- jacalata 13y agoDepends on the humidity where you live, if it's humid enough to promote mold then the fridge will make it last longer.
- blueskin_ 13y agoFreeze it, then after a bit of experimentation, you can find the perfect toaster setting to defrost it (and even have it warm) without toasting it. I do it all the time. What really annoys me is that it's possible to make bread that lasts for >30 days, but they don't due to people's stupid phobias of food treatments. Before I started freezing it all the time, I used to waste so much from it going mouldy, so I'd bet many people still do.
- michaelt 13y agoNo, but if you have £9 a day you can buy a single loaf of bread and still have £8 left over. I guess if you were homeless it might be worth £9 a day to have somewhere warm and indoors to stay, but the free entry museums, art galleries and libraries don't seem to get full of homeless people. I have heard reports of 'pay what you like' restaurants getting filled up with homeless people, so I can see where you're coming from.
- yetanotherphd 13y ago>I have heard reports of 'pay what you like' restaurants getting filled up with homeless people, so I can see where you're coming from. That's really funny. Who would have thought there were more people who like eating for cheap than people who like paying for other people to eat for cheap?
- rmc 13y agobut the free entry museums, art galleries and libraries don't seem to get full of homeless people. Security Guards.
- jakobsen 13y agoSo in the UK you are not allowed to enter museums if you are homeless???
- GigabyteCoin 13y agoHomeless people don't always have the energy to walk around 24/7 in the museum, and they probably have "no loitering" laws. As in you can't just sleep on a bench in the basement all day and scare the children. Also, dress codes are most likely in effect.
- kokey 13y agoI think the fact that you can buy 4 liters of White Lightning for that money instead negates the necessity to find somewhere warm and indoors.
- TheSpiceIsLife 13y agoDid this comment thread actually happen? Where am I.
- Samuel_Michon 13y agoFood hacker news.