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The key part of your note is "at home". Baking break, or pizza, or cookies, or anything else is easy at home when you've got lots of counter space and your kitchen isn't rolling under your feet. It's much more difficult on the tiny counters of most boats, even at anchor. And if you happen to be actually sailing then the problem is magnified. That's when baking powder biscuits are valuable. You can mix up just enough dough for a couple of biscuits and bake them in a minute without waiting for the dough to rise or anything else.
Like I said earlier, a good place for your peanut butter and jelly, or anything else you would normally put on a sandwich.
No, not convinced. I used at home to demonstrate how easy it can be, but surely the one thing you have on a cruise is time. On board, instead of the mixer, I have a big stainless steel bowl I can hold between my knees. Takes little time to mix with one hand. There must be space on most boats to knead, then it's the same at home. I haven't your breadth of cruising experience but one thing I am really looking forward to is having enough time to do stuff. There'll be times doubtless when we just need sustainance, but not sure the op was asking about on passage in particular and personally, good bread is both a luxury and a comfort. I suppose it's the difference between food as fuel or a pleasure in its own right. We have just bought a new stove so we can indulge in the latter. While carrying plenty of tins of baked beans if we need the former.