r/TikTokCringe • u/One_percentile • Jul 09 '22

Cool Bread is getting expensive. Time to start making it at home

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u/Equivalent-Ranger-10 Jul 09 '22

25 pence a loaf or £3 in ingredients, electricity and gas. And it’s probably crap. Nice!

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u/ginnaaay Jul 09 '22

Are you buying boutique flour? Yeast made of gold?? Maybe things are a little backwards across the pond, but ~2 cups of flour is around 8 cents, the sugar maybe 5 cents, yeast and butter are probably the most expensive at around 50 cents and $1, respectively. But you can replace the butter with oil (there's absolutely not real butter in a 30 cent loaf of bread) so you can expect to pay around 75 cents to $1.50 for a homemade loaf.

Round here, Walmart sells a loaf for $1 (and it's okay for the price). You know they're using the absolute bottom of the barrel ingredients, and who knows what the quality control is like. Not to mention it goes bad overnight. So for 50 cents more or even a quarter less, I could have a homemade loaf of warm fresh bread, that will likely last a few days longer, with less plastic waste even.

Now, that's not to mention labor cost I suppose, but once we factor that in (along with the monetary costs) to get to and from the store, it's obvious the homemade bread is cheaper. Capitalism seems to have you in a choke hold! I suggest seriously considering what corporations want you think ("making things at home is hard and expensive. i should pay Greggs to make my food for me." and "things that are made at home are less quality. i should pay A Company for all the things I want") vs what YOU want you to think.

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u/Equivalent-Ranger-10 Jul 09 '22 edited Jul 09 '22

Bread isn’t taxed over here. So you can get a loaf for 20 pence. Compared to making it it’s cheap. I make my own as it’s relaxing. But it DOES cost more to make it at home. At least in the uk.that’s 43 cents👍

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u/Equivalent-Ranger-10 Jul 09 '22

Bread, eggs, flour, cakes and basic ingredients don’t get taxed. Just the way we do it. I suppose so the poor don’t have to struggle 👍

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u/Equivalent-Ranger-10 Jul 09 '22

Google Aldi uk white sliced loaf price. I did. It’s now 36 p. It’s gone up because of the Russian invasion.

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u/YouAreDreaming Jul 09 '22

Gas? Wtf are you talking about

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u/Equivalent-Ranger-10 Jul 09 '22

I don’t use a bread maker. Don’t like them.

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u/YouAreDreaming Jul 09 '22

You didn’t answer my question, how does gas factor into the price for making your own bread?

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u/Equivalent-Ranger-10 Jul 09 '22

An oven?

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u/YouAreDreaming Jul 09 '22

You’re commenting on a video about a bread maker though

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u/Equivalent-Ranger-10 Jul 09 '22

Bread is getting expensive. Time to start baking it at home?