Making bread is something many of us here have wanted to do, so this is a cool article to work off of. I used to buy pre-made ciabatta bread from the store to eat. Making it would be a worthwhile experience, and then I wouldn’t forget.

Bread is healthy too.

Someone I used to work with also took the Greenway. Every day. I asked him why, because I couldn’t fathom why anyone would pay that much.

“Well, what is your time worth?” he says.

Indeed. I’m making $54/hr. The Greenway cuts about half an hour off my commute each way, for $4.75 each way. So during rush hour, I look at it as a magic wand that gives me a half-hour commute for $4.75.

So I’m spending about $2,000+/yr in tolls, but I’m gaining 260 hours of free time (which I never have enough of to begin with).

You might consider going with a drier dough, using a bit more yeast, and giving it a slightly longer rest. At minimum, I’d use more yeast. The first batch I ever made flattened out into a big pool on the cookie sheet. It tasted okay but it wasn’t anything to sing about. A few more tries and I had it down perfectly. Also, a bit of Vitamin C powder or gluten added will make the yeast perk up nicely. Let me know how Bread One turns out! =)

@Mike – Hanmeng has the right idea.

@Rob – Bread flour is a high-gluten flour that typically has a leavening agent like Vitamin C added to help the yeast work. Bread flour would be perfect for this recipe!

I do not deny that there people’s lives are often determined by some predispositions, but those are controlled by their genes, i.e. not “Destiny”. If we look at the etymology of the word “destiny” – from Latin destinatus, pp. of destinare “make firm, establish” – we see that this could refer either to the predetermined conditions (or objective causes) or to the established by ourselves paths and “destinations”.

All that to say that there could be two points of view. In the first, the person is attributing the power to control his life to some higher power (the Destiny) that does not exist; which leads to the decision just not to make purposeful decisions and to be passive. In the second case, the person decides that nothing but him can control the decisions in his life. Therefore he sets his goals, chooses his destinations, and makes active choices in order to attain these goals and to fulfill his purpose. There is no “Destiny” in both cases; it is just the way we choose to deal with the given circumstances and to shape our future. Of course believing or not in the chosen path can make a big difference as to whether or not we will be able to walk all the way. So in a way believing in our own selves and in our own capabilities shapes our “Destiny”. That is why sometimes even believing in something imaginary like “Destiny” or “God” could have positive influence on our abilities to attain our goals, provided that this belief leads to active and not to passive lifestyle.

The result is a big, flat mass of fairly heavy bread-like substance. It’s not exactly ‘bad’ as such, but neither is it really ‘good’. That said, I seem to keep on eating it. I will dub this “Bread/Zero” because the result is indeterminate.