4. Do you ever make bread?

Hi. I was asked, do I like bread? And unfortunately for me the answer to that is, yes, I do, and quite a lot. Perhaps a bit too much, because all those carbohydrates, uh, yeah, you could put on quite a bit of weight if you're not careful. Anyway, my normal kind of bread would be white bread. There's a typical white cut slice loaf that I would get from the supermarket. I also have something which is … tempts me to have more bread, and that's a bread machine. I've got it, got it here. So I'm just going to load it up. I've just loaded up all the flour and the yeast, a bit of butter, a bit of milk, salt, sugar. So I'm going to stick that in the machine … and I'll come back in a, yeah, a few hours and I'll show you the result of my bread machine.

Well, three hours have gone, and my machine has just been bleeping at me. Let's see what we've got. Looks nice. Just get the oven gloves. There. There we go, a nice fresh loaf. 

I've just taken it out and we have a nice golden-brown loaf of bread. And I wish they'd invented smellivision, because it smells lovely. There's a nice warm smell of freshly baked bread. OK, let me just cut it open so you can see.

This is a white loaf. And I do actually like white bread better, as I said at the beginning, even though – see all the steam coming out of that? Oh, lovely – I know that white bread isn't as good for you as brown bread, but personally, I prefer the taste. Not to say that brown bread is not available, and we do have it in our house sometimes. Now, that's lovely. You can see it's just steaming away. Still a bit too hot to eat really. But I'll put that with some garlic butter, maybe, and I'll get through that loaf pretty quickly. That's the danger of freshly baked bread.