I do bread occasionally, but I used to make it a lot more- at least once a week. I noticed something. The flour today seems.. different. Not as good, in fact I was doing a loaf of "no knead" about a month ago and it actually had MOLD on it the next day! Making bread can be tiresome & is very messy. I got sick of dealing with it and end up buying good bread. The bread in stores has better gluten content than any I have made, too- homemade bread just isn't "springy" enough for me. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.