Send Me To Sleep | Baking (Voice Only)
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What personal baking memories does Andrew share?
Hello, it's your host Andrew here. If you're enjoying Send Me To Sleep so far and you'd like to help support the show, the best way to do that is Send Me To Sleep Premium. Over there you'll get ad-free episodes as well as access to all of our bonus episodes. You can find a link to a seven-day free trial in the description notes. Thanks so much for listening and here's just a few ads before the show begins. I don't think there's anything quite like the smell of freshly baked bread. In the morning, I remember when I was quite young, and my dad brought home a bread-making machine, which was quite fancy, and... It was short-lived in our household. We didn't use it for more than, I would probably say, a few months in the house, but those days when we did, and waking up to a fresh loaf of bread and smelling that in the morning, getting really excited to eat,
tear into that soft loaf was a beautiful memory, is a beautiful memory, and I think formed part of my interest in baking in later life. Funnily enough, to this day, and then even still, I'm not entirely sure how it is that a bread maker can works exactly how it makes bread in such a light and fluffy manner you know it's not stodgy in any way but of course if you've made bread before as you almost certainly have perhaps at least once in your life then you'll know that there's this sort of process to it. You know, you need to let the dough rise for an amount of time and then you'll, as they say, punch it down, let it rise once again. on the counter, just under a cloth, maybe, or some cling film, and then you would undergo the process of baking, only once it has risen to a certain degree.
But with a bread machine, you simply put all of the ingredients in, and then some hours later it would just produce a perfectly lovely loaf of bread. And like I say, I'm really unsure how it is that it's capable of doing that without all of the extra steps. But I suppose we'll leave that to be a mystery of the bread machine. Hello, my name's Andrew. Thank you for joining me today.
How did Andrew's interest in baking develop over time?
Today I'm going to be talking about bread. well not just bread i'm going to be talking about baking and my experiences with baking in life which have been up and down let's say i appreciate you being here i hope that across this conversation i can evoke some memories of your own from baking in your life and You know, there's a few lovely things in this world that are nice to think about when falling asleep, and few are as calming and serene as the idea of... I think that has something to do with the slowness of the process. Of course, it doesn't always have to be slow. You could rush a bake, but I think it's always better to make sure you have plenty of time. I know that whenever I've attempted to bake in the past,
It's always when I've had ample time to do it. Otherwise, well, that sort of takes the fun away, really, doesn't it? I think myself, like many, many out there, got into baking most during lockdown. And I specifically was doggedly determined to be able to make a really good loaf of bread. Not like a special loaf of bread at all, just... Normal sandwich bread. Funnily enough, the kind of thing that you might be able to get from a bread machine itself. But it was my challenge, so to speak, during that time at which I had plenty of time to be baking. And I think during the span of time that I was at home, I may have baked, I would say, easily over 40 loaves of bread. And I will say, by the 40th, my bread was getting fairly good.
And there's something, I think, that I really liked about the process. And that's why I would repeat it so often. It gave me sort of a structure to my days. Because, like I say, you have to leave the bread for a little while, a number of hours perhaps, to rise before you return to it. And it could take you several hours across the day to produce your loaf of bread. And so it always gave me something to come back to across the day, which was really nice. And it felt slow, but...
What unique baking experiences did Andrew have during lockdown?
quick at the same time not sure how to explain that this process of making the dough initially letting the yeast in the milk the warm milk bubble up letting it sit for a little while before creating that first load of dough and kneading it together into a nice smooth round consistency
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Chapters
8 chapters
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What personal baking memories does Andrew share?
0:00–2:47
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How did Andrew's interest in baking develop over time?
2:47–6:01
3
What unique baking experiences did Andrew have during lockdown?
6:01–12:33
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What techniques did Andrew learn to improve his baking skills?
12:33–19:33
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How does Andrew describe the meditative aspects of baking?
19:33–26:37
6
What challenges does Andrew face when baking vegan recipes?
26:37–32:08
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How does Andrew's childhood influence his baking today?
32:08–39:33
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What humorous baking incident does Andrew recount from school?
39:33–48:26