[kragen]

well, until now, bimbo's breads were sesame-free, and now they'll presumably have sesame in them. so people in the usa with sesame allergies will have to cook their own bread at home now, unless they're lucky enough to have access to a small artisanal bakery

[lukan]

"will have to cook their own bread at home now"

Serious question as a non native english speaker, is this a correct way of saying it?

I think bread is usually baked in an oven ..

[hahajk]

Baking bread is more correct, but in my experience "to cook" is generic enough to include baking. If someone has something in the oven and I ask "what are you cooking?", it's not weird.

On the other hand, "cooking bread" is like 2/10 weird.

[jjallen]

"will have to bake their own bread at home now" would be the most correct way of saying it IMO (native American)

[kragen]

as a native english speaker, i should have said 'bake their own bread'. it sounds wrong the way i wrote it

[KineticLensman]

Don’t know the actual stats but (UK here) lots of people who make bread at home use a dedicated bread machine

[lukan]

It is still an small oven, not a cooking pot ..

(some bread you can also make in a pan, but you cannot cook bread in my understanding)

[WrongAssumption]

Cooking is just the application of heat. Baking is the application of dry heat. Baking is a subset of cooking.

[lukan]

In german, the literal translation of cooking is "kochen" and that involves boiling things.

[detaro]

Even if you assume literal translations capture 100% of the details, "kochen" has multiple meanings. One of them is "boiling", another is "cooking" in the general sense of "preparing meals".

[CocaKoala]

What's the difference between baking and cooking in your understanding? You can make bread in a rice cooker, which nobody has ever called a "rice baker".

edit: and a rice cooker is definitely not a small oven.

[lukan]

Cooking involves boiling. Liquids bubbling.

Baking is more of a evaporation.

And the german definition of cooking in the narrow sense is defined like this, but in a broader sense apparently usable for everything with preparing meals.

And I never used a rice cooker, so no idea how to classify that ..

[CocaKoala]

If cooking involves boiling, what are you doing when you put a steak in a hot cast-iron pan?

To the rice cooker point, I'd argue that an oven uses a heating element of some form (electric coils, gas flame, wood fire) to heat the air in a closed environment, and the air transfers heat into an item. In contrast, a rice cooker uses a heating element to directly heat a metal pot, and the metal pot transfers heat into an item. Usually that's going to be a combination of rice and water, but you can e.g. pour pancake batter into the pot and get a large souffle pancake, or put bread dough into the pot and get a loaf of bread. The trick is that the metal pot is much more efficient at transferring heat than the air is, so the rice cooker doesn't need to be at the same temperature as an oven to get the same amount of heat into whatever you're cooking.

[smohare]

Your intuition is right. One would say “will have to bake their own bread at home”.