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question: "What's the thrill of baking?"

Can you help answer the question "What's the thrill of baking?"

I've made about 2 cakes, a handful of pizzas and the occasional batch of biscuits in my life. I bought my mum a bread making machine last Christmas which she was over the moon about. But have I ever been thrilled the act of baking itself?

Maybe I was thrilled when I baked a chocolate cake from the River Café cookbook. It turned out perfectly which made me very pleased with myself, but the thrill was possibly in presenting it to an eager, and very demanding audience, at my girlfriend's birthday dinner party I was throwing. Was it the baking, the exhibitionism, art of creating. I don't know, maybe all those things.

I am a research fellow at the Royal College of Art, England. As part of my current work I'm trying to find out what thrills people, how and why. I'm aiming to create a stimulating resource of material to inspire new design work.

As part of the process, I'm taking time to travel across the Google User Groups and read past articles about the thrill of that particular interest. Some interesting past articles have popped up in R.F.B . I'd like to know more about your experiences of thrill related in some way to baking.

I invite anyone at R.F.B take a short interview. The result will be published on the website

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along with a growing collection of other interviews from all walks of life. You can see the interview at
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along with instructions on how to complete it. (it can be done off-line).

We can talk further in this user-group (please be patient at it takes me a couple of days to revisit each group) - but it's most constructive to have any comments put forward in the interview format. Even though this isn't scientific research, the interview is constructed to help me understand your experiences.

I hope you can help, I think it'll make a fantastic edition to the growing thrill collection.

Thanks

Brendan Walker

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For me, its several things.

One is tactile - with bread or yeast doughs, its the feel of the dough in my hands as I work it.

Another is the smell - nothing like the smell of fresh bread baking or even a lovely cake. Makes one feel good - like coming home after being away for a long time.

There's also the visual side of it - watching things change in colour and texture as you mix or beat them; looking at something gooey and soft turn into something solid.

There's the taste, of course - the difference between the way bought foods or even bakery stuff tastes and what you make yourself is something special. One could say, its the taste of love. I don't know, but I do know that you can't buy that taste anywhere.

Finally, there's the feeling of accomplishment and pride when something works out and you have a perfect loaf of bread or a beautiful cake that everyone raves about. Gives you self esteem and confidence.

That's me.

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Davida Chazan - The Chocolate Lady

Well said, and I heartily agree.

Minteeleaf

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Minteeleaf

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