Is making bread a sensual thing?

[corarose]

I am just curious If anyone else thinks making bread is sensual.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Absolutely!

So is eating it, if shared with a loved one.

Bread making recalls, I think, a long, long bit of human consciousness that comes up when making it. Sounds weird, but I think it's true, and making bread is absolutely sensual. Unless it's sensuous. I can never remember, even though I've heard Dean Wormer's wife spell out the difference many times.

[corarose]

2. I might be an Oddball but its erotic in a way

You have to feel the dough and shape it and somehow it's erotic.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. It's very visceral and tactile, and at least for me,

that's always sensual.

I think that's why I love cooking so much. And painting. And why I prefer to write with a pen and not on a computer.

[corarose]

4. I use to work with Slip

I had my own kiln and molds. I loved the way that the ceramic and porcelian felt when you were creating something.

It might be the Artists in us.

[Ilsa]

5. Not the way I do it.

Bread machine. Pretty much slam, bam, thank you Oster.

[corarose]

6. We are the bread machines at Culinary College

I use to have a bread machine but it's all made by hand now.

[KittyWampus]

7. Yes, And Deeply Spiritual As Well

The alchemists use the making of Bread as an Allegory.

[Syncronaut Seven]

8. Of course it is silly

But wash well & scrub those fingernails before you get to carried away! Those yeasties are nasty!

On edit: Oh... you said Sensual. :P

[corarose]

9. Hey, I don't do things like that

Sensual is different then American Pie.

[ProudGerman]

10. Depends on how you go about it

For instance:

Hey Corarose, wanna make some bread?

compared to:

Hey there hotstuff, wanna *wink* make some bread? *sly grin*

[corarose]

11. Gotcha

I just think that making it is a sensual thing.

[phaseolus]

12. Not nearly as sensual as...

...portrait drawing. Like, in a basic drawing class where they team everyone up & you draw each other.

Couple decades ago that one exercise cured my shyness.

[corarose]

14. My Art class has nude models

I was young and shy and I laughed at the guy when he took a break in the nude when he ate his lunch.

[supernova]

13. of course it is,

you have to know what a good ball of dough looks and feels like. To know when to stop kneeding or when you've added enough flour. Too much and it won't come out right.

Being from the south, I can't tell you how many recipes I've learned via the "do it til it looks right" method of cooking.

[corarose]

15. LOL

It all by the touch isn't it.

[supernova]

16. Sure

Good dough just feels..... good! ;-)

[Philostopher]

17. I'm not southern,

But one of my grannies was a Hoosier and I learned most of my cooking the same way!

Oddly enough, though, for all she cooked everything else from scratch, she always bought her bread at the store. Biscuits, she made from scratch; bread, she bought at the store. Probably the osteoarthritis -- kneading bread likely made her hands hurt. I find it's therapeutic in that way, so I do it for the same reason she didn't.

It is absolutely sensual -- when it hits the 'sweet spot' in the knead, and is ready to go in the bowl, bread dough feels a lot like skin. That's the way it's supposed to feel.

[janx]

18. Of course it is! Real cooking or baking of any kind is.

The best bread I've ever eaten, though, came from a basement in Iowa City at the end of the 70's. I'm convinced those freaks lost money because their breads were so fine! We used to take it home, still warm, wrapped in foil. So many different kinds: onion, nuts, fruits, sourdough, rye, wheat, and all kinds of combinations. They were so good!

It would put the current health-food chain bakeries to shame.

[corarose]

19. Chefs like to feed you at my College

Fellow students like to feed you with a spoon and I found that weird at first but most of them do it.

[bleedingheart]

20. Yes

I love making bread, it is just like when I garden.. its getting back to the basics of life. Making food from scratch is very very rewarding.

[ParanoidPat]

21. My wife and I sure thinks so!

She not only makes her own bread and rolls, she even paints people kneading dough! :)


Castle Kitchen, Martha Rose Applegate

Looks pretty sensual to me! :evilgrin: (I've always thought she should call this 'Woman Kneading Something' but I guess that's just the MCP in me. :spank:

[corarose]

23. OMG I love that painting

I love Castles and bread making. When I get out of Culinary College and go to work can you tell me how much she charges for one of her paintings?

[oustemnow]

22. Well, duh yeah

At least, it's been my experience that, the more bread I make, the more women are turned on by me.

I'm probably hanging out with the wring women.