Why Does Everyone Rush To Knead While Staying At Home?

2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29

From the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic the population began to stock up on basic foodstuffs, as well as those such as toilet paper, which still cannot be explained.

But aside from toilet paper, one of the first products to end up on store shelves was flour - even in the presence of bread.

And while you're staying home with your family and wondering how to feed them something different, a packet of flour often comes to the rescue. You find a recipe that you find easy and tasty, roll up your sleeves and kneading begins. Of course, in the end you have to brag to your friends about your work and send a few photos from different angles of the fluffy bread that was kneaded and baked.

If you bring back the story of your conversation, you will probably notice a lot more photos of different pastries that you exchanged while staying at home and wondering what to cook in the kitchen. It is logical then to consider whether kneading is an anti-stress therapy..

Here we will try to give you 3 reasons why everyone rushed to interfere.

1. Bread gives us a sense of security

You can't sit at the table without bread. He is our livelihood and without him we cannot survive. And what we try to do during the time we are in isolation - we try to survive. And making homemade bread gives us security, because we know that we have prepared it and no one else outside our family has touched it before. There is no risk of infection.

2. Kneading bread calms us down

Do you remember how cats, as they purr in our lap, start moving with their front paws, as if knead the dough? The truth is that in this way they remove sweat from their body and do not do these actions in order to calm down.

However, kneading the dough has a calming effect on ourselves. As we knead the dough, we have the opportunity either not to think about anything, or to think about everything that excites us. And this freedom of action has a calming effect.

There is also a belief that the dough with which we make bread, bread or homemade Easter cake must be hit exactly 100 times on the table. This is quite a laborious activity, especially for the more fragile hosts.

Photo: Dilyana

At the same time, it's a great way to get rid of negative thoughts about your future that have accumulated during isolation. Instead of wasting bad energy by punching a punching bag, you beat the dough on the table. A very practical method for dealing with the accumulated negative energy!

3. Killing time

Kneading bread is a good way to "kill" free time, which we already have more. As already mentioned, kneading bread calms us down and gives us a sense of security. At the same time, you have too much free time right now. You must have washed all the windows in the house, washed the curtains, polished your kitchen cabinets. What to do now? Well bread, of course!