What to do with the wrong yeast?

BWZN93

I seem to have bought the little tin of yeast that says not suitable for breadmakers, when I thought I had read it and thought it was fine :rolleyes:

So, what do you do with an opened can of yeast when you have a breadmaker and no time to make bread the proper way?

Jo xx

thriftlady_2

I'm pretty sure it freezes.Bung it in there until you get the urge to make bread by hand-although I use the easy-blend stuff for my hand baking.

Swan_2

it depends on which breadmaker you have, my MR Fastbake 48261 user manual actually recommends using ordinary dried yeast. I re-read the instructions a dozen times before I was convinced, because I always thought you had to use the fastbake kind

anyway, the tin I have says 'we do not recommend this yeast for bread makers' & it works perfectly

SallyinWales

I use ordinary dried yeast, I put the water in first, sprinkle on the yeast, and give it all 10 minutes to start working before flinging in the other ingredients and pressing 'go'

rainbowkanga

I've got a Panasonic BM and at first bought the 'not suitable for BM' yeast - but found it was fine - the Easy Bake yeast is slightly lighter but that's about all the difference

elona

I use the little orange tin but bought a pestle and mortar and grind it down to more of a powder before I put it in the breadmaker and it works fine.

Swan_2

elona wrote:

I use the little orange tin but bought a pestle and mortar and grind it down to more of a powder before I put it in the breadmaker and it works fine.

I like that idea, I'm going to try it next time

my BM instructions say to add yeast last & sprinkle it over the dry ingredients, & although it works really well & the bread's wonderful, I still can't help feeling uneasy about the yeast not being mixed with the water first. guess that's what comes of having hand-made bread for decades, old habits die hard :rolleyes:

Trow

elona wrote:

I use the little orange tin but bought a pestle and mortar and grind it down to more of a powder before I put it in the breadmaker and it works fine.

I can't see how a little orange tin would work instead of yeast, ground down or not

elona

The little orange tin of yeast.

Although for an iron deficiency????? lol;)