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Toast may seem like the easiest thing possible to make, but bakers will tell you there is far more to it than simply to put bread in a toaster. Different breads will give very different results as toast...

Up in The Bread Factory main office, where it’s warm cosy and smelling deliciously of, what else but, freshly baked bread, the staff are gently taking the mickey out of one of the accountants. ‘Every morning, first thing, he’s goes off to the baking floor for his fresh cakes and croissants!’’ they laugh. He smiles, acknowledging their banter, and then his eyes go all misty and unfocussed. ‘Look,’ his colleague says,’ he’s dreaming about those cakes again!’...

Oat and Bran, Granary Bloomers and Ciabattas are just some of the 300 handmade bakery products delivered fresh to caterers by the Bread Factory...

Fancy some potato and rosemary sourdough bread? How about a sultana and fennel loaf? Ran Avidan did, but the 35 year-old who came to London from Israel to work as a management consultant, couldn't find his favourite breads anywhere...