Bread
As an early Chanukah gift, Dori’s father and step-mother bought us a
crazy fully-automatic bread machine. I never thought I’d say this, but it kicks ass!
I made some whole wheat bread last night, and it came out great! Basically you get your 6-10 ingredients together and put them in the machine, turn it on, and come back ~3 hours later to a fresh loaf of bread.
As I looked through the rather extensive manual (which included numerous preemptive scoldings about the need for precision measurements), I couldn’t help but think to myself that some guy programmed these things. Geeks brought together over bread - it’s almost biblical!