[Leica] Would you trade your M9 to go back to an M8?/Bread

[filippiniaia at hotmail.com (Matthew B. Filippini)]

Well, the salt and yeast are just a few cents, so I gave myself ~35 cents 
for gas in the dollar-a-loaf cost.  (But $1 is not "well under a dollar," is 
it?)
 
Baking bread weekly, and cooking breakfast and dinner close to daily, works 
out to about a 72 cents a day in natural gas for me, but that is mostly 
"delivery charges," service charges, taxes, etc.  So, yes, I guess the 
mariginal gas cost is very very low.  I never really thought about that part 
of it before.
 
Matt
 
>On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
 >wrote:
>What does running the oven for 45 minutes cost? Anything significant? I
>guess gas would be negligible but electric might really cost something. Not
>as much as a Starbucks...
>
-> - from my iRabs.
>Mark Rabiner
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:25 PM, "Matthew B. Filippini" <filippiniaia at 
> hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> I love baking bread. I haven't bought bread since November 2003, when I
> started making my own every week.
>  
> Yesterday for my family's Easter dinner, I brought a loaf of white, a loaf 
> of
> light rye, and a loaf of sourdough 7-grain bread (homemade sourdough 
> starter).
>  
> For a good bread flour, it costs about $3.50 for 5 pounds in here Chicago,
> which will make about 6 loaves, so we are at ~58 cents a loaf for flour 
> (there
> are much cheaper flours available as well). Add a little yeast, salt, & 
> water
> to make a basic bread, 45 minutes of running the oven, and you get a 
> beautiful
> loaf of bread for well under a dollar.
>  
> Matt
>  
>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>> 
>> I bake all of my own bread and the rye is wonderful (if I do say 
>> so>myself).
>> It might be cheaper to buy Wonderbread but you will pay for it
>> later with health problems.
>> 
>> Tina
>> 
>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
>> wrote:
>> I met a guy the other day who bakes his own rye bread.
>> I'm going to do the same. I don't care if my oven melts my refrigerator.
>> 
>> - - from my iRabs.> Mark Rabiner>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/
>> 
>> 
>> -- Tina Manley, ASMPwww.tinamanley.com          
> 
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