Bread Machine

They are a waste of money as i make a loaf of bread every day it takes less than half hour to do ..And with all the modern yeasts available it soon rises and you can then bake it..Its easier to hand bake than wash machines up..And also it tastes better than the bread machine bread !! :D

 

Ooh I haven't got time for that though WF!! The good thing about the breadmaker is that you can fill it in the morning and put it on timer and then it'll be ready when you get home from work!!
I make cakes and pizza dough in mine too. The only thing is, if you don't want it out on show it takes up an awful lot of space in your kitchen cupboards :rolleyes:

 

When I get my new kitchen the breadmaker is coming out again. Has any one else found that they can be tempremental when it comes to flour? Mine won't have Hovis flour in any shape or form and produces heavy stodgy loaves that won't rise, but give it Sainsbury's own brand and it's trying to escape from the machine! There is a ciabbatta bread mix which is good in a machine and you can make 2 lots from 1 small packet, though I have to confess I tend to do those by hand.

 

I use sainsburys bread flour and their dried yeast its great stuff..I think i tried some organic flour once and that wasnt brilliant.. :eek:

 

Hardly takes any time to wash out the paddles and loaf pan.

I dont mind i tbeeing put in cupboard just re adjust what is in cupboards as prefer no clutter on work surface.

 

I've had a very basic BM for about 2-3 years now and make (nearly) all my own bread. But I use it just to make the dough as I prefer convential shaped loaf. So I stick the dough in a tin and bake it in the usual way. My favourite 'recipe', if you like, is about �½ and �½ Hovis white and Sainsbury's organic whole meal. And I use 1oz cooking oil with the water. Sadly, if I want the toast I like, I have to buy a s/mkt tin loaf. Home made bread just doesn't toast right for me.

 

My machine has the lot put in altogether. I agree about the organic stuff which I why I mix my white and wholemeal.

 

Guess what? Went as usual to Aldi today for weekly shopping, got to the bread machines counter, Mrs.DAG stopped and said, "Think I will have one of those again!"

"What about all that measuring out to do?"

"I will do that!" She said!

You lot are my witness! :D :D

 

How the house coming along Dag

 

DAG, join the good bread crowd. We are lazy and just use Aldi's brown or multi-grain mix, one half a pack at a time we find best for us, and add 3 soupspoons of caraway seed to it. I say "we" as t'other half is the breadmaker in our household. :rolleyes: Enjoy! :wink:

 

Oh, fine Macleaf, no decorating until after Christmas, but that's ok with us.

LOL, we also got some packet mixes from Aldi, caraway seed.........my grandmother used to put them in her cakes and I never eat them because of that!

Can't stand them! :D :D

 

nice one mate,have a good xmas with your good wife