[Plutarch]

A bread machine converts very cheap flour, yeast, sugar, salt, oil and egg into a homemade delight. We have bread about every night. It is real nice to come home to the smell of it baking.

Flour is around 80 cents per pound. A pound is 453 grams. Four calories per gram of carbohydrate/protein = 1812 calories/lb. Moderately active adult male of average size requires 2300 calories, which represents 1.27 pounds of flour, or roughly a dollar. So too does canola oil represent about $1 for 2300 calories. So, to the extent you are having fresh homemade bread, you are subsisting for a dollar per day.

[thecodont]

I don’t have a bread machine, but I love baking bread. There is something deeply satisfying about punching down the first proof of the dough: it’s more fun than popping a balloon.

[Holding Our Breath]

I have one - used once because I lost the directions and don’t know how to use it. I hate relying on machinery!