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As the only left handed member in my family, I'm now curious if I ever did that to my family. Though for tasks of that nature I may actually use either hand, or maybe I just started using the right hand because I was the weirdo (asking my mother she said she never noticed but assumed I probably just adapted and used my right hand).

As a bachelor I virtually make all my own bread so I don't really notice, but I think I do take time to figure out which way to twist before opening so maybe that is a thing.

This is just to say, the things you never think about, and I enjoyed the irony of your situation from the reverse side.

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> As a bachelor I virtually make all my own bread

I so wish that the status of bachelor automatically bestowed the gift of being a baker. Sadly, in my case, it has not done so. I've tried to make all kinds of breads, from flatbreads to sourdoughs to leavened and unleavened to soda breads - all sorts. I would wish consumption of my output on only my worst enemies.

Happily, though, I can buy packets of bread mix in the supermarket and put them in a bread-making machine.

You should check out The Tassajara Bread Book by Edward Espe Brown; it's a masterwork of clear technical writing. The first basic recipe is expanded over 20+ pages, explaining not only what to do but _why_.

OK, I will do that, thank you. I'm a fan of Cooking for Engineers, and particularly like the schematics. Scroll to the bottom of this recipe to see what I mean:

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/36/Meat-Lasagna

For an easy and delicious recipe, try Andy Jones' "quarantine bread" [1]. I was rarely baking bread before, but this recipe changed that completely. As he mentions, it is really really hard to mess up. I once put it in the oven without folding. Thought that this was irrecoverable. It wasn't. Turned out great.

[1] https://andyljones.com/posts/bread.html

I honestly only did it because I was cheap and I wanted to remake a sandwich I had consumed before. I started with a simple foccacia recipe and went from there. But I started baking with my mother years earlier so I had some experience.

I now for better or worse have the Toll House cookie recipe memorized, but I'm terrible at making baked goods look appealing.

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