I made bread for myself for the first time a few days ago and I now 100% understand Andrew Tate's sperg out on how cooking is a waste of time. Cooking is a waste of time if your time can be better spent somewhere else. I make ~$80/hr when working. Why in the fuck would I spend a half hour making bread when it's $3.00 at the store? I just lost $37 worth of my life to make a loaf of shitty bread that wasn't even as good as store bought.

If you receive genuine joy and gratification from cooking then have at it. If you cook because you are broke as fuck and it's actually more cost effective for you, then have at it. But if you're like me and have plenty of income and you are trying to cook to "better yourself" or to "stick it to the stores" you are a pretentious showy faggot.