It's allowed, I just felt like "insulting" him. 
The only thing I can bake is bread and for that I need one of those bread making contraptions.
Hell no! That IS unacceptable. The cool thing about baking is that it transforms elemental ingredients into something amazing, so I rank it with traditionally masculine tasks like carpentry, plastering, or steel production. It's been done throughout human history without a 'magic box.' Those damn things separate you from the heritage of the endeavour, keep you in the dark about how things work, and generally foster a can't-do sense of accomplishing something basic. They're a perfect metaphor for the modern world. So are modern industrial bread factories (in which I've performed building maintenance). They are production lines of human misery and I refuse to give them $7 for a loaf of their blowing agent filled marshmellow bread.
Fwiw, I'll probably build my own dough sheeter one of these days, just for the hell of it. I'm not against process equipment provided it doesn't try to isolate the user from the process so that someone else can exploit ignorance for profit, like a mechanic who tells you to never try to understand how your engine works.
One of the best books on the basic physics of baking I've encountered is How Baking Works by Paula Figoni. It doesn't have a single recipe in it, as I remember. Strictly theory. I found a PDF online.
Not to geek out entirely but the rheology of dough is pretty cool too. Concrete, ketchup, mayonaise, are all non-Newtonian liquids, but the viscoelasticity of glutinous dough is unique as far as I know, and responsible for western baking practices.
