Making English Muffins From Home: Is It Worth It?

Ehhhh, debatable.

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The TLDR version of this post is that homemade English muffins are good, but probably not worth the time/ingredients.

Tis I, the author of Middle Well, coming to you live from deep inside a quarantine in my home in Vermont. In some ways, quarantine is not terribly different than my normal life, as my home is kind of isolated and I’ve always worked from home. But, of course, there is the whole, ya know, society is closed thing. And the constant emotional processing and grief that comes with What’s Happening Right Now.

If you’ve been online at all lately (anyone else’s iPhone just looking away in horror as it reports to you, weekly, that your screen time has gone up again?) you may have noticed that a lot of people are baking. Many of them (me included) are baking bread. For me, baking (or cooking in general) is a form of escape. And when I’ve got flour all over my hands, I can’t check my phone. I’ve been baking tried and true recipes — chocolate cake, cinnamon bread, biscuits — and also trying out new recipes that I’ve been meaning to try out for a while. Enter: English muffins.

It hadn’t really occurred to me that one would make their own English muffins until I saw a photo someone posted of them doing it. As with other things, the task immediately seemed…