I'd love to bake bread but just don't have the time...

When I talk enthusiastically about bread baking I often hear this response so I set about proving it ain't necessarily so. The starting point: when we bake bread the dough does most of the work and we interfere just now and again. It takes me  around 3 hours end to end to make a batch of rolls but involves only 35 minutes work, but how to show this graphically? 
What would dovetail with the snippets of work needed to bake bread? Eureka, advert breaks! This is so counter to the Fife Diet concept of unplugged eating, but it is just to prove a point, OK?
So I split up the work involved into the smallest useful pieces, got my partner primed to shout when the advert breaks ended, turned on the tv and waited for the first break. 
Did it work? Several answers: Yes, the rolls were delicious. Yes, it was all done in ad breaks. No, it was not a good way to spend an evening because I chose the worst programme imaginable but felt I couldn't change channel in case that was seen as chasing advert breaks.

However the principle is there! You can Bake Advert Break Bread or interleave baking with any clean, interruptible tasks around the house, but if you choose ad breaks make sure you check the TV listings first then decide when to bake, and definitely not the other way round!
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