This is causing people to make their own bread. Not because they had lots and lots of time on their hands while locked down in 2020, but, because of the availability of goods
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, life seems forever-altered by rising food costs and shortages. Household staples like eggs and lettuce have taken a hit, with prices skyrocketing as these once-common products become more scarce. Now, bread may be the next kitchen must-have to fly off grocery store shelves and increase in price.
The Consumer Price Index reports that, in the last year alone, bread prices have already risen by nearly 15%. Now, people are turning to an old friend — the tried-and-true bread maker — to bake fresh loaves at home and avoid rising costs and the lack of bread on store shelves.
Alex C., who lives in western Idaho and prefers to keep her last name anonymous for privacy reasons, says she hasn’t bought bread from a store in months. She took to TikTok, where she posts as @its.me.alexc, to share her bread-making journey, and was surprised to find a whole community of people doing the same as her.
I have to interrupt. “Bread making journey”? Stop that. It’s sill, very silly. This whole silly stuff of everything being a journey these days bugs the ever-loving crap out of me. You’re just making bread. It’s not a journey. Rant off
In addition to the simplicity and savings a bread maker offers, it provides peace of mind. “You don’t have to worry about the store running out of your favorite bread when you can just make it at home,” says Alex C., who recently shared her go-to homemade bread recipe on TikTok. “I also think a lot of people are starting to open up to the realization of what is in products we buy from the store, such as bread, and it’s not good things. We’ve forgotten about a loaf of bread from the store in our cupboard for several weeks and it doesn’t even have any mold on it — that’s scary. I love knowing every single ingredient I’m feeding my family.”
Also, like with most TikTok stuff, it’s all stuff that other people came up with. It’s not new. Stop portraying it as if you came up with it. Regardless, there is actually a bread shortage. There were also shortages in 2020-2022, due to productions that had nothing to do with Russia invading Ukraine (and wouldn’t have really made a difference in U.S. bread productions.) Many products have been ended or seriously scaled back, especially in the no-name/lower price products. I barely ever see Walmart brand bagels and English muffins anymore, going back to 2020. Just a month ago you could get 2 fresh baked donuts there for $1.49. Now they’re $1.99.
How bad could it get? Good question. What’s Biden doing? Nothing. Well, maybe trying to create WWIII.
In the early 1980s, Mrs Pico and I had an apartment which overlooked the alley behind the old Alfalfa’s restaurant on South Limestone Street in Lexington. Alfalfa’s baked their own bread, early in the morning, and on cooler mornings would put a rack of freshly baked bread out in that alley to let it cool. The aroma of that bread would waft up to our bedroom window, and it was absolutely wonderful.
It took a great deal of resistance to not sneak out and steal a loaf of the bread.
Choke on your non-journey bread, you silly nitpicker.
I have had one of those breadmakers for years…. and haven’t used it in slightly fewer years. You don’t really save any money with it.. Flour, yeast and sugar will set you back more than just buying a loaf at Aldi’s. Besides, if the price of bread rises (so to speak) the ingredients are bound to follow.
Seriously, making your own bread is way better than buying the chemical laden junk they call bread at some grocery store.
Making your own bread is fine.
Watching ticktok makes you a bloody stupid fool, but, you do you….
Mr Teach:
President Biden is so evil that he caused bread shortages during Trump’s reign! That’s power!!
Making bread is actually relatively simple, not a “journey”. People have been making bread, and beer, for thousands of years, out of essentially the same ingredients, most without a ‘bread making machine’.
If one were to observe, the current economy is in an inflationary period and everything is costing more. Rising fuel prices will, of course, cause rising material, production, and distribution costs for goods such as bread. Throw in rising costs for labor, utilities, etc. and this is what you get.
Elections have consequences and we are in a consequence.
Les Miserables — Victor Hugo 1862
Jean Valjean received five years for stealing the loaf.