Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My oven stays on all the time with one oven the perfect temperature for baking bread. The AGA doesn't use that much propane. Tina On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Matthew B. Filippini < filippiniaia at hotmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com