They’re calling it carb therapy.

People are dusting off old bread makers and desperately trying to find dry yeast. The coronavirus pandemic is turning everyone into a baker.

It’s not as easy as it looks on Instagram.

Stuck at home with her kids in Longview, Wash., on day nine of social distancing, Schona Kessler found some flour in her pantry and her bread machine, and decided to give it a try.

“I looked into the window throughout the process and figured ‘Hmmm, this is not looking quite right, but hey, we followed the recipe, so it should be fine,’ ” she said. Three hours later, when she took it out, it was not fine. “It was ugly,” she said. “Turns out, my flour was past due by almost three years! I didn’t realize flour could expire.”