It’s funny, I has this exact scenario play out with a guy friend in college. It ruined our friendship. We were friends for maybe two years at that point and I was taken aback because I never saw him as anything but a friend and he even had a girlfriend at the time!
After that exchange, he got so awkward the friendship fell apart. We still had classes together but he avoided me and I was not pressed to be near him, so we never saw each other again after that semester.
Weird tangent. For a busy bread lover, have you considered a bread maker? I still make loaves by hand time to time, but with a bread maker my place regularly smells like a lovely cottage and im eating delicious fluffy bread a few times a week. It’s one of those purchases I didnt know I would love and I end up using so regularly. It really changed my life for the better.