I recently got myself a bread maker. While I used to make the bread myself, the bread maker makes it even easier given I can just throw the ingredients in and forget about it. Since I got it, that poor thing has been running at least once a day (yes, I eat a lot of bread).

My go-to recipe is generally:

  1. Add 236mL of water in the pot
  2. Add 1.5 teaspoons of salt
  3. Add 2 tablespoons of sugar
  4. Add 2 tablespoons of oil
  5. Add 405g of flour
  6. Add 2 teaspoons of yeast
  7. Set the program on “sandwich bread” (should be a 3h one)
  8. There ya go

Pretty easy, right? The machine will knead, let it raise, then bake the bread all by itself, just don’t forget to let it cool for around an hour after it’s finished.

Right now, I got a Point POBM400GS bread machine, but I wonder if I could modify it to add a small webcam and some simple thing that would just return how much time is left before the bread is ready.

Hell, bread machines seem so simple that we could probably even make an Open-Source one.

Watch out for the bread Grafana dashboard.