Driving an automatic

I’ve come to realise there are two types of amateur bread makers – serious aficionados who want to perfect the process into an artform with their bare hands, and peeps like me who want to produce hassle-free bread on a daily basis . . . sometimes twice a day. 

Sure . . . I love the look of a perfect, hand-made, oven-baked loaf as much as the next bread lover, but I can’t help thinking it all looks pretty much the same half way through the mastication process. 

And don’t forget (and I’ll keep stressing this as we go along) I can be as lazy as sin if I think there’s a shortcut to be had anywhere. Including bread making-n-baking.

 Think back to the first days of motoring . . . I think I would have stuck with a horse, bicycle or public transport. All that mixing of fuels, doing my own mechanics, changing my own wheels and hand starting. Now, that was for REAL enthusiasts. 

Would you swap your modern automatic transmission, electronic ignition, air conditioning, safety features, fuel efficiency and possible hybrid technology for the gut-busting, hand-cranked, open-air, horsehair-hard discomfort of yesteryear if you REALLY had a choice.

I think not! So I rest my case. 

For day-to-day loafing, bread machines rule!