why are croissants so cheap, but so difficult to make from 0 (zero)?

>>21439850 (OP)
croissants from an actually good bakery are not cheap at least in america

>>21439869
Neither are they in Europe. Not even in France. Usually at least 1 €+.

Scale.
Some foods are easier on scale, others are just as easy to make at home.
It's the pad thai allegory that it costs 50 bucks to make a 7 dollar Pad Thai lunch special. But that's because a mix of ingredients and ease of large-scale preparation.

>>21439850 (OP)
They're not difficulty level whatsoever. Time, not skill.

They are mostly pricey butter, and requires a technique called booking the dough, which basically adds time to the prep. It's something I would do at home on a rainy day, a laundry day/cleaning day. Take it out of the fridge, roll it out, fold, roll, fold, roll. Then back inito the fridge to rechill. Repeat 2-3 more times.

I'd bake on parchment, and an air-pillo kind of cookie sheet which makes it idiot proof from burning or doneness skills.

>>21439888
*at scale
Not on

>>21439906
your put things on a scale, not at a scale

>>21439908
u dont put at an scale moran

>difficult
They're not difficult at all. I used to work in a bakery and while that wasn't my area (I did bread), we did make and sell croissants. However, the girl making the croissants was literally retarded. I don't mean that as in she, like, lit the wrong end of a cigarette once or something. I mean she was legitimately retarded. If a literal retard can make croissants, they can't be that difficult.

>>21439978
some retards are savants when it comes to croissants

>>21439986
No. I've made them, too. Not one step is difficult. It's just time consuming and boring. Perfect work for a retard. And this particular retard made them on a rotation. She'd start batch one then when it needed to go off to proof or rest, she'd start batch two then when that needed to proof or rest, she'd go back to batch one and laminate it but because that wasn't enough rest time, she'd start batch three and so on. She would manage to make literally hundreds all on her own all day because all she did was bake croissants and talk about reality TV.

>>21440015
>all she did was bake croissants and talk about reality TV.
cute ngl

>>21440022
She wasn't bad looking, either, yeah. She kinda looked like whatshername from Drew Carrey and Scrubs. You know the one.

>>21439850 (OP)
>Cheap
i wish, they're so fucking expensive.
At least bread is half the price and you get way more food out of it.

>>21439883
Lol, in USA they're easily $5-6
European bakery/confectionary scene is far more accessible than USA.
Every European village has a very good bakery. In USA even supermarkets dont even have a fresh bakery. They might have gay thawed sushi.

>>21440022
>>21440015
But isn't that what existence in the modern era really is; metaphorically? Manufacturing croissants and trivial diversions, and being retarded?

>>21439850 (OP)
It's just technique and tools. All your need is specialized equipment to solve the butter getting too warm and even rolling. Once you have they they're pumped out but the hundreds daily from one person alone.

>>21441479
> In USA even supermarkets dont even have a fresh bakery.
That’s a complete lie

>>21439974
I put your mom on my scale.
I need a new scale.

>>21441479
That's because pretty much everyone gets a croissant for breakfast
If pastries were 2€+ there would be riots

>>21441628
Not entirely. Most just bake frozen dough sent in from elsewhere or make box mix cakes.