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The first step with bread is grinding the corn. This a basic way to make it edible for the tribe. Have you ever tried to bite on a corn of wheat or rye?

Mix it with water and cook it to make it softer, and you get a kind of porrige. Leave it warm over night, and you have a sourdough. Rekindle the fire on the next day, and you’ll have a proto bread.

From there to the white bread made with a dozen chemical stabilizers, acid regulators and raising agents as they are sold in the supermarket is just the result of refining the process.

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AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

From there to the white bread made with a dozen chemical stabilizers, acid regulators and raising agents as they are sold in the supermarket is just the result of refining the process

Or there’s just, you know normal bread, flour, water, yeast and salt. You don’t need all that extra crap.

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- Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Of course nobody needs it. But >99% only know it that way.
  
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  - SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Nah, a lot of us around the world just use The Four Ingredients, and prefer bread that is simpler yet tastier. Your numbers might be very regional.
    
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  - scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    99%? I highly doubt that. Being from a European country, a bakery around the corner with fresh bread is the most normal thing. Supermarket bread is highly frowned upon here. As it is in most of the world except the USA I presume
    
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    Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    If you believe that your local bakery can survive without those chemicals, think again. There are a handful of specialized bakeries that actually work on “clean” recipies, but they are rare and much more expensive.
    
    Yes, even in Germany, the country of bread, rising agents and acidity regulators are common. Whenever you see a “bakery” put prepared rolls into the oven, you can be sure that chemistry is the bakers best friend.
    
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  - AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You think the rest of the planet is like the US. It actually isn’t.
    
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