Hey, check out my buns

Really?  That post title?  We had some really nice ground beef from the ranch, so I made chipotle sloppy joes.  Burger buns are pretty easy to make at home with a bread machine.  I used the recipe from Beth Hensperger's The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook.  I like that book.  This is a recommendation. I've made dozens of recipes from it with consistently good results.  I only futzed a little with her recipe hamburger bun recipe, below.  It's mostly hers. For eight buns, put these in the bread machine in the order the manufacturer wants you to:

• 1 cup water
• 1 large egg (yes, ours are literally farm-fresh)
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter (I used the salted I had)
• 2 tablespoons sugar (I use Whey Low sugar blend, stay tuned for info on that)
• ¼ cup nonfat dry milk
• 2 tablespoons instant potato flakes
• 1 tablespoon gluten (I used a homemade dough enhancing blend instead of the flakes and gluten)
• 1½ teaspoons salt (omit if you used salted butter)
• 1¾ teaspoons SAF yeast (I used just ¾ teaspoon.  I had my reasons)

Set the machine on the dough cycle and let it loose.  Put a parchment or silpat sheet on a baking or half sheet pan.  Dust it and your hands with flour.  Put the dough on the sheet and divide into 8 equal pieces.  Shape them into rounds. There are some tricks for that.  I'm not posting them now.  It's late.  Don't worry, they'll be fine.  I trust you. Space the rounds equally. Cover your buns with plastic wrap.  Also the bread dough.  I'm so sorry.  I said it was late.  Heat the oven to 375.  Let the buns rise for about a half hour if you used 1¾ tsp. yeast, longer with the ¾ tsp.  With that, let rise until they look about the size you want them to be.  They should look a little puffy.  The longer rise gives them a complex flavor you don't get with the shorter rise, a hint of sourdough. Make an egg wash of 1 egg yolk and a tablespoon of water.  Brush the buns then sprinkle with sesame seeds.  I used black sesame seeds.  See how nice that looks.  Black like poppy seeds, shaped like sesame.  It's a little thing, but, you know, still... Bake for 15-22 minutes.  Check for golden brownness at 15 minutes.  Oh, the buttery smell of those things.
Did that seem time consuming?  Really, the active time is much less than a trip to the store.