A friend prefers to make bread in the morning. She takes out the flour, yeast, salt, the milk and the honey. Puts them on the counter. Creates a staging area. Morning makes sense because good bread cannot be rushed.
Good bread takes time.
Making bread is not about saving time, winning short-term temporal battles that will vanish in the heat of the next crisis, it's about lengthening one's day, slowing one's heartbeat and reducing one's blood pressure. Making bread is about getting back to basics. One of the basics is living at a livable pace. Trader Joe's and Costco. This is why.