Men baking

You have to love a man that can bake!! One of my co-workers (male) brings in the most wonderful baked goods from time to time. Today it was an apple coffee cake, which was beautiful with thin wedges of apples baked ringing the top. Wonderful!!!

Dan, that’s his name, does this about 3 times a year, and it’s always something different. I’m not sure how often he actually bakes, but boy is he good. Every once in a while another one of the guys on the floor will bring in something they have cooked, and most of it is really good, but Dan is the only guy that brings in baked goods.

Now I’m wondering why there aren’t more guys who bake. It seems to me that of all the cooking types, baking would be most up their alley. Appealing to their love of precession is the exactitude of measurement and the endless debates on weather ingredients should be at room temp or kept cold in the frig. The endless experimentation with ingredients, and the quest to improve a recipe. And how about the power tools? The food processors, mixers, choppers, peelers, timers? Then there are all those nifty hand tools too: whisks, spatulas, and spoons, presses, nut crackers (OK maybe there’s a clue there). There are also a 1001 kinds of pans, some of with come apart and some are spring loaded. Not to mention that at the end of the process there is something to eat. It just seems to me that almost every guy would be into baking.

Of course they’re into BBQing, And let’s face it, they are ALL drawn to fire but, the tools are so limiting and basic. Maybe the next evolution will be man learning to bake on his BBQ pit?