Post #2827226

2026-02-26 06:00 UTC

@TheGentleKlingon@mastodon.art hopefully less dire, yeah. :blobcat_amused: Still requires a lot of expertise, most of the how-to guides believe that you're familiar with how to make bread already, and there's equipment etc that no one tells you to buy until you're already deep in the hobby. You can absolutely pay someone else to do it for you, but you'll be paying out the ass if you do, and in the meantime, if you just wanna go with whatever mass-produced bread is out there, it's full of god-knows-what kind of preservatives and fillers.

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@titania@retro.pizza 2026-02-26 06:02

@TheGentleKlingon@mastodon.art oh yeah and because the world is not a kind place, there's always the weird fringe people who do make their own bread every week and will loudly and smugly talk about how much better they are than you for doing it and how *gosh* you must not care about [insert topic here] if you buy store-bought bread. they're the minority, but they do exist, they are loud, and if you can't figure out how to make a loaf that actually rises (oven spring!), they are among the first to tell you scornfully that it's easy and a child could do it, you must have done something horribly wrong.

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@TheGentleKlingon@mastodon.art 2026-02-26 06:03

@titania@retro.pizza this is giving me anxiety now lol (half-serious, half-joking) but yeah, that's absolutely on point, it's such an odd assumption to think anyone can "just do" something that one has spent years learning the ins and outs of.

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