B Robson wrote:
> tm wrote:
> > B Robson wrote:
> >>kuri wrote:

> >>>You can find everything in specialised stores. The quality is good if you
> >>>know what to buy. The prices....well, it costs more than buying the bread
> >>>unless you get ingredients in big quantities. You can get yeast in packs of
> >>>1kg, flour in bags of 20 kg, etc. One of my student does that and swears
> >>>that she saves money.
> > 
> >>I certainly wouldn't want a 20kg of flour in my house.
> >>I have a bread maker which I don't use at all. It takes about 4 hours to
> >>make a loaf. I used half white and half brown flour and liked the
> >>results. It does take awhile to get the recipe right. At my former job I
> >>had to work 6 days a week and so I was only home long enough on Sundays
> >>to use it and got out of the habit of using it.
> >>
> > The bread-making machines are useless. You need an oven to make bread.
> 
> I don't have an oven.

Neither do I. Sadly, we will never be able to make edible bread 
regardless of how many useless bread-making machines we do or do not 
purchase, how many kg of flour we store or how many non-sunday hours 
we worked at our former jobs.
You need an oven to bake bread.