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| Thread ID: 100606 | 2009-06-14 00:11:00 | Breadmaking machines | FoxyMX (5) | PC World Chat |
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| 782111 | 2009-06-14 14:07:00 | I eat about a loaf a day by myself, would it be better if I got a bread maker or should I stick to buying bread? I think it would be a never ending thing me making a loaf of bread. There just wouldnt be enough hours in the day. | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 782112 | 2009-06-14 14:16:00 | Putting the ingredients into the bread maker takes less than 1 minute. Eating the bread will take less time also, as it is way better tasting. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 782113 | 2009-06-14 21:18:00 | I eat about a loaf a day by myself, would it be better if I got a bread maker or should I stick to buying bread? In a breadmaker it would take ages to make more than one per day. On the other hand you set it and leave it apart from the baking. By hand, you just make a larger quantity of dough at a time (can't do that with the machine). But New World for instance sells budget bread for $1.49 a loaf, don't know that a breadmaker can match that..... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 782114 | 2009-06-14 21:26:00 | Itls a bit like like Linux,it's for those with nothing better to do! | Cicero (40) | ||
| 782115 | 2009-06-14 22:31:00 | I make most of the bread for the two of us. Forget breadmakers, pain to store, pain to cleanup :) One mixing bowl, measuring spoons, measuring jug and a set of scales plus a couple of bread tins. Add a pair of hands and an oven and you have all you need.. A Hot water cupboard is handy for proving.. yummy... Cheese and walnut is the best, mix into the dough not just on top. |
Sue (33) | ||
| 782116 | 2009-06-14 22:44:00 | I make most of the bread for the two of us. Forget breadmakers, pain to store, pain to cleanup :) One mixing bowl, measuring spoons, measuring jug and a set of scales plus a couple of bread tins. Add a pair of hands and an oven and you have all you need.. A Hot water cupboard is handy for proving.. yummy... Cheese and walnut is the best, mix into the dough not just on top. Yeah I can hand-make bread and all - learned how at polytech nearly two decades ago. Thing is, kneading is hard work if you don't have a Hobart or other commercial grade mixer with a dough hook. Ten minutes of kneading - watch that clock - no shortcuts coz it ain't scones. And if you want a really soft loaf knock it back again for another ten minutes. |
Deane F (8204) | ||
| 782117 | 2009-06-14 22:45:00 | But New World for instance sells budget bread for $1 . 49 a loaf, don't know that a breadmaker can match that . . . . . I'm not interested in making white bread, though the white bread out of a bread maker is far nicer than supermarket white bread . Vogel's, etc is what I like and that is quite expensive to buy . I'm sure it could be homemade for a lot cheaper . Forget breadmakers, pain to store, pain to cleanup :) That's what I was thinking . I keep telling the kids that I really don't want another big gadget to have to find a home for in the kitchen . I've made pizzas and calzones before and that wasn't a big deal so I probably should make bread by hand as well . Does anyone have any recipes for handmade Vogel's or multigrain type of bread? Would those recipes above be suitable for making by hand or would the measurements be different? |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 782118 | 2009-06-14 22:48:00 | Yeah I can hand-make bread and all - learned how at polytech nearly two decades ago. Thing is, kneading is hard work if you don't have a Hobart or other commercial grade mixer with a dough hook. Do you think using the Kenwood Chef mixer with dough hook would give a good result? It seems to work well for pizza and calzone dough. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 782119 | 2009-06-14 23:15:00 | Bread makers are easy to clean, most times the bread pops out and there is nothing left to clean, maybe a quick wipe. Even if you just use it to mix the dough and bake in a more traditional tin the cleanup is still simple. If you want to make bread without a bread maker and don’t like kneading, there are plenty on no knead recipes available. www.google.co.nz |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 782120 | 2009-06-14 23:42:00 | Do you think using the Kenwood Chef mixer with dough hook would give a good result? It seems to work well for pizza and calzone dough. I've got one of these (www.breville.com.au), and it's fine for bread-making; 700w is plenty of power to knead dough, although the main reason I bought it is to make Ciabatta, which is hard to do by hand as it's a very wet, sticky mixture. The most important thing really is the flour; hard flour with a 12% or better gluten content is the business; and as Deane says, kneading is very important also! |
nofam (9009) | ||
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