It appears that the latest negative food report is saying that ultra processed food increases the risk of cancers and one of the products that was mentioned was mass produced bread.

I know that white bread, rice and pasta aren't good for you but the problem is that they taste nice.

I would find it difficult to give up bread as I have a couple of slices of toast for breakfast and a sandwich for lunch. I do have the multigrain bread but it's probably still highly processed so I am wondering whether to try my hand at baking my own so that I could leave out the chemicals and additives.

I wouldn't do it the old fashioned way but would probably buy a breadmaker.

Does anyone else bake their own bread?

Thanks Alan. I work from home so have plenty of time to stuff a few ingredients into a breadmaker - especially if the result tastes nicer

We buy a fresh white bloomer everyday and love it.
Will it kill us? Possibly, but what doesn't these days.
Mum used to make lovely crusty rolls and despite doing all the cooking in our house, making my own bread just seems like an absolute waste of time tbh.

Long live the shop-bought bloomer

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When I retired bought a Panasonic SD 2511 breadmaker. It is brilliant and so easy to use even I can do it! Comes with great recipe book. Would never buy bread from shop again. Highly recommend

Even fresh baked bread from the supermarket isn't great. This is because the dough is pre made and delivered frozen or chilled, they just stick it in the oven. I am told that to make good bread you need to allow the the dough to rise twice where as the supermarket stuff is only once.

My neighbour is a GP she tells me that carbohydrates are the real enemy so try and avoid bread altogether. Ready meals are packed with salt, sugar and preservatives no wonder they say there is a link to cancer. My neighbour showed me an article in the BMJ that sugar is a killer far worse that we thought and that "big sugar" has been covering this up since the 1950's similar to the tobacco scandal. It is concerning to see how many products have this c**p in them.

Avoid the carbs but if you must I guess home baking would be better as you can control the ingredients.

One more point

To reinforce, breadmakers are easy and take zero effort once loaded with the ingredients.

Personally I like the French bread mode as it doesn't use as many ingredients and is a lighter texture. Takes longer though.

Make sure you buy fresh yeast, it's amazing how quickly it loses its vigour.

You just need yeast and bread flour, every supermarket has them. The machines come with instruction leaflets that will also give you other types of dough such a pizza and ciabatta.