It’s apple season… Baking an apple pie

Today I baked an apple pie using the apples I was gifted the other day. The dough was made using an improvised method of feuilletage. Strictly speaking, it’s not a puff pastry, but the baked result is almost like it.

The apple pie I made by myself is delicious! By the way, I bought this oven second-hand for 100,000 yen a while after I got married. I’ve been using it for more than 40 years since then, so it’s probably been about half a century since it was first manufactured. The only thing I can control is temperature and time. There are no electronic parts, so there is almost nothing to break. The gas power is great, and it works as I control it, so it’s very easy to use and reliable.

Modern ovens have a control panel that allows you to set this and that, or you can leave it to the oven and it will automatically bake for you. But I guess everyone is getting worse at cooking.

I’m an analog person after all. I don’t trust machines much, and I don’t know how to use them well. If I keep relying on machines all the time, I think we’ll become really stupid. Also, the life span of these ovens is short because they use electronic components for complicated functions.