After telling Cheeky and Speedy about my wheat-y experience, I received an email from Cheeky that almost made me pee my pants. Here it is:
"Erin, please don't buy a giant wheat grinder and a billion of bags of wheat. We both know that you are too ADD to keep up with actually using it. And when disaster strikes you either (a) will have forgotten you have it or (b) will notice it collecting dust in the corner but will have forgotten how it works. Then just to get rid of everything, you and I will have to go down to all those local parks I found on the internet and scatter your seventeen-year old wheat around for whatever birds survived the disaster. Being mistaken for a homeless person isn't really my idea of a good time. So instead, just get yourself a bread machine, pour in a package of fixins labeled "wholewheat," and turn it on. That's it! All Done!
Yooouuu're weeelcoooome for the brilliant advice!"
What Cheeky doesn't know is that she is going to feel differently when she tastes my delicious whole wheat bread NOT made in a bread maker (and what is the difference between buying a $70 bread maker or a $80 wheat grinder? Answer: NOTHING).
4 comments:
What is the difference? The end product of a bread maker is an actual edible loaf of bread. The end product of a wheat grinder is just a bunch of ground-up wheat that (given the fact that your attention span has already been exhausted by the grinding process) is very unlikely to ever turn into actual edible bread. Cheeky wants wheat BREAD! Not a grinder. Big difference. (Yooooouuu're weeelcooome for the explanation too.)
I must agree with T here, Erin. You toss a few things into a bread machine and you get beautiful (give or take), fresh, delicious bread. You toss wheat into a wheat grinder, and you get flour. Which you can then mix with things in a bread machine, or learn how to bake. Do you already enjoy the process of kneading and baking bread?
By the way, glad to see you're still kicking around out there, T.
I'm so happy that both of you have such confidence in my baking abilities. I will have you know that Momma Judy taught me how to make bread when I was ten years old. Granted, I haven't made it since I went to Japan for the first time, but I still have skills. True, that my freshly ground wheat flour might not ever make it into the bread but if it did, it would be GOOD.
And Eric, the thing about owning a Kitchen Aide mixer (which I do) is that all of the kneading can be done right there in the machine. Baking is also not that hard. It is the waiting for it to rise that I really can't stand...that is the real ADD problem.
I don't really know the whole story here, but I do want to chime in with, "I think bread machines are really cool and convini, so if Grasshopper wants one, let her get one." They do all the needing of the dough anyway!.
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