Right. I'm annoyed. I saw someone wearing crocs buying a bread maker cos "It's cheaper and better for the enviroment" as she told the man in the shop.
So, I'm going to disprove her.
I'm using this recipe; http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/955/basic-white-loaf.aspx
An average price for bread: £1.19
Average Bread maker: £50.
So, arguably, 50 loaves of bread means you break even.
However, including ingredients?
Flour: 90p per bag. And you can roughly make 3 loaves from a bag of flour.
Salt: 50p. You can get roughly 30 teaspoons from 1kg
Butter: 85p. 1 knob. 8 knobs per sainbury's basic butter
Yeast: 79p for 6x 7g sachet's of yeast. So equates to 6 loaves.
Caster sugar: £1.36 for 500g. Roughly 20 tablespoons
Dried Milk powder: £1.89 for 250g. Roughly 10 table spoons. 5 loaves.
(All cheapeast things on Sainsbury's online shopping)
So... For 1 loaf of bread...
Flour for 1: 30p
Salt for 1: 2p
Butter for 1: 11p
Yeast for 1: 13p
Caster Sugar: 7p
Dried milk powder: 19p
Total: 81p
So if a loaf of bread is £1. Then to equal the cost of the machine, you'd have to make 50. But then, to make those 50 loaves would cost £40 (81p x 50 = £40.50).
£90 in total. So, to break even, you have to spend £90 on 50 loaves of bread.
I think that's right... I hope it is.
I havent even taken into consideration the cost of keeping it on to make the bread, driving there, the amount of extra petrol you'd need to get to carry the items (bread being lighter than the mixture of all), the time taken to make it, and the embaressment of it tasting crap.
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