>Ok, I see what I was missing. You think that if I buy bread from a bakery, it needs to be toasted. Bread from a decent bakery doesn't have a need to be toasted, but some people have a preference for it. No harm in toasting bread as far as I can see. When I make a loaf of Challah (from scratch - without a bread machine), I eat it both ways. Toasted and untoasted, and I love it both ways. I don't see why toasting it should have some sort of evil connotation.

Not toasting as such - I sometimes just toast it to near black and let it dry a while, so it gets really crunchy, a zanimacija (something to be interested in, or get occupied, or have fun, with) for the teeth. When I want to nibble something but neither nuts nor seeds. It's, as I said in the other message, it's about the bread which pretty much must be toasted, which brought fame to "best thing since sliced bread" expression.

>>So, it's not the industrial vs domestic. It's the recipe. And the recipe that the bread industry here uses is... {remains textless}.