I love to bake bread!
The comment I hear most is, "Doesn't that take a lot of time?" As a graduate student pursuing my PhD in a field totally unrelated to food, I can tell you: no, it doesn't take a lot of time. I like to start a batch of bread on Friday evening (which takes about two minutes, including the time it takes me to get my bowl out of the cupboard), and then bake it on Saturday morning. If I don't have time Saturday morning, I bake it another time. It's purely a matter of convenience. Most of the "time" needed for baking bread is just waiting - waiting for the bread to rise, waiting for the bread to bake... The bread does all that on it's own. (Well, you DO have to put it in the oven.) I just go and do my homework.
It is incredibly rewarding to sink one's teeth into a steaming slice of fresh bread after several hours of writing papers!
Right now though, I'm home for summer vacation, and the family is having bratwursts to celebrate Memorial Day tomorrow. I think I'll go start a batch of homemade bratwurst buns!
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