Baking AI banana bread

I had some too-ripe-to-eat bananas and in times past, I always swore I’d use them to make banana bread.

After vowing this approximately a million times, that day finally arrived today.

Being 2023, I did what any person with a connection to the web would do: I asked an AI chat program to give me a banana bread recipe. It did, but it was for a pan larger than the one we have, so I asked it to modify the recipe to account for this. It did.

The bread is now baking in the oven. Will it be good? Will it be a bananatastrophe?

Pics and the verdict later today!

In the meantime, enjoy this dancing banana:

UPDATE #1: The banana bread is baked! A photo:

It looks fine, but a little runty. How will it taste? The taste test is coming soon, in the exciting banana-flavoured UPDATE #2.

UPDATE #2: Despite being runty, AI banana bread was declared a yummy success. We’ll double the recipe next time and see what happens.

GlutenQuest complete

And on the second day there was gluten.

The possible gluten repository of Galloway’s, a local bulk/specialty food store, yielded a veritable treasure of trove of gluten and other bread-making ingredients, so my partner bought the place out and made bread.

The first loaf was whole wheat bread made pre-gluten discovery and it was fine, if a little dense. The next loaf was raisin bread, which rose to monstrous proportions (even though the image makes it look kind of stubby and short) and was very yummy to boot. Jeff’s picture of the loaf, the bread maker and some of our kitchen counter is below. The bread’s integrity did not survive long:

rasin' bread
Raisin bread, ready to fulfill its purpose in life of being eaten.

I suspect we will be up to our eyeballs over the next few weeks in a variety of breads, rolls and anything else that can be made in a bread maker, but that’s okay. I’ve started running again and I’m reasonably confident I can outrun the calories of the many delicious things this diabolical device can create.

Reasonably certain.