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Originally posted by Jimeats

Glad to hear I’m not alone in the male bread baking sector. I look at bread baking much like "Qing" and beer brewing it’s a guy thing. I give away a lot more than I eat though. Davydd I am buying my a/p flour at Costco 25lb. bag at a time and one pound bags of yeast there also. If flour prices continue to rise I may have to cut back on my sourdough starters. I wonder why Costco doesn’t sell powderd milk, seems to me it would move fairly well with the riseing fresh milk prices. You may be interested in this web site
http://www.thefreshloaf.com
Some very knoledgeable bakers posting there and some great toutorials of the craft. Chow Jim

I kind of fell into bread baking when I had a too inelastic pizza dough. I couldn’t get it to rest and flatten out so I just stuck it on the pizza stone as a ball and it came out not too bad as an artisan bread. So I started making bread that way with true bread recipes baked directly on the stone after realizing I was paying over $3 for those same kinds of fancy artisan breads at SuperTarget. I was always a sucker for them because they bake them at the store and if you are there when they are stocking fresh while still warm they can be irresistable. For pennies by comparison I can make my own now that I am retired and have a lot more hobby time. Pizza, fresh bread, and home brewing. What a life!

I had The Fresh Loaf website bookmarked. If nothing else it is the most gorgeous food site on the web.