Breaking Bread
Posted by Patrick on Sunday, December 21, 2003We Americans live in the Age of Small Appliances (A.S.A. for short). Today, Kate was making some bread, using downstairs Rocklander Chris' bread making machine. This machine is truely a marvel of technology, taking the most common and elemental of foods and bringing it easily and freshly to the masses.
Here's a simulated pic, as I'm too lazy to take a photo right now:
Moving on, the breadmaker kneeds (sp?) the dough in some twisting, shaking fashion, and does this for what seems like hours. Obviously this is preferable to kneeding it yourself. Today, while it was doing it's bread-making-thing, the whole device shook itself clean off the counter, and landed upside-down on the floor.
This marvel of carbish technology lay cracked in in several places, and is now a very large paperweight. We now know what we're getting our neighbors for Christmas this year.
In the small appliances' last moment, it selflessly thought of it's still-kneeding contents, and saved the bread inside of it. We were able to recover it, and Kate is now cooking it in the oven.
I hope to be so nobel in my last moments.
