David Mitchell
wrote:

Like I've said before, most people can't be bothered to make things as
trivial as bread and biscuits.

Well, lots of people *do* make bread and biscuits; and a series about baking was
one of the most popular UK programs for some time.

There was a fad for affordable automatic breadmakers in the nineties.
I'm happy enough with cheap factory bread, but I offered that my wife
might want one. She didn't.

I haven't heard much about them lately. Perhaps shrunken kitchens
don't have the counter space for single-use devices.
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