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I've not blogged about anything much recently, so on the basis that any blogging is better than silence, I shall blog about bread machines, and why they are evil.
Bread machines are loved by a certain type of people. They like the homey smell of it, and ignore the fact that it's massively inefficient of time, space, and electricity to bake your own bread in a dedicated bread machine. These are the same people who make their own soap and construct their own shoes because they’ve seen hundreds of years of industrial revolution and mass production lead to huge increases in the quality of life for everyone and decided to chuck it all down the toilet.
They also buy organic food, because inefficient farms make them feel better, and haven't heard that the green revolution is the only reason we didn't all starve to death in 1985.
That is all.
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Comments
Stephen
Most likely to be found blocking the path of a JCB.
Mikey
@Laurie: Spoken like a true anti-foody! Although they are indeed an inefficient use of space and electricty (none of which matters if you have plenty of both. and truth be told, unless you do you are a bit silly spending all that money on a bread-making machine) they are *not* an inefficient use of time. It's incredibly easy to make bread even without a bread-making machine, let alone with one. If you are hosting a dinner party the right choice of bread can be just as important as appropriately chosen wine. Unfortunately different types of bread aren't as easily available as different types of wine.
Ben
Re organic food, while the organic movement (like Greenpeace of late) has a rather nasty anti-Progress streak (such as their global ban on GMOs), it is undeniable that current industrial farming techniques with massive over-use of fertilizers and {herb,pest}icides have caused serious environmental problems. Countries that can afford to feed themselves without these things really should do so, and research should be directed towards making it possible for poorer countries to as well...
michael, StE
Sadly, he didn't.
ed
And I really don't understand what's wrong with making your own bread. Maybe the bread maker prefers the taste. Please do not condemn us all to eating nothing but M&S microwavable junk food and pre-packaged salads till the end of time due to the "effiency".
Laurie
@Ben: my main beef with organic farming (and the people who buy it) in the UK is that it is touted as the best way forward, coupled with fierce, unfounded opposition to GM foods.
If everybody switched back to organic farming, there would be massive food shortages. So instead the UK (and Europe in general) pay a premium price for organic food and starve GM food research of money and space to do research, thus prolonging the harmful effects of pesticides and fertilizers in the rest of the world by denying the poor of the world with any meaningful alternative.
@Ed: there is nothing wrong with organic food per se, just the knock-on economic effects it comes with, namely a lack of investment in GM foods.
Tom Williams
Also, re: squandering electricity - do you switch your computer off at night? How often do you switch your heating on? Do you use a tumbledryer for your clothes?
Tom Williams
On a similar note, my parents use a bread machine. They live 4 miles from the nearest shop selling bread. It's a lot more environmentally friendly than driving an eight-mile round trip.
marc
That was purely for comedic effect. I've never had organic peas.
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