Panasonic 255 bread maker paddle bakes inside loaf - any tips?

usignuolo

Well I added more water as suggested by Panasonic customer services, but the blade still stays inside.

I also tried the pizza dough. I measured out the ingredients very carefully according to the Panasonic recipe, but it turned out very sticky, too sticky to easily remove from the internal tin, although by adding a lot of flour I got it out and it cooked OK. Any suggestions about improving this?

One final question, the upper bread crust comes out fine when hot but as it cools, the top goes kind of flakey?

usignuolo

Britrael - 10,000 loaves? Cost how much to buy? How much to bake? How much did your breadmaker cost?

BritRael

usignuolo wrote: »

Britrael - 10,000 loaves? Cost how much to buy? How much to bake? How much did your breadmaker cost?

It was around 100 quid from Amazon.

That was a tongue-in-cheek comment My missus is always pulling my leg about the cost of it versus the cost of buying a loaf, saying that I'll be lucky if we save 1p/loaf
I have some friends who have bread makers and was always told about how cheap making your own is. Ok, their machines are not this expensive, but still, I haven't found it to be 'cheap'.
I like granary bread, so I buy Hovis granary flour. The biggest bag they have is 1kg which is enough for two loaves. I"m sure it would work out less per loaf if they sold bigger bags. Either way, it takes literally 2 minutes to put a loaf on, 5 hours to rapid bake, and I love it!

usignuolo

To be honest, I didn't buy the breadmaker to save money on this occasion (although I got a good price from Amazon). Our local bakers closed down a couple of years ago when the property boom was at its height and he was forced out by a large rent increase. The shop is now an estate agents.

The only local bakery now is our Tesco Express (who bought out the local grocer's at the same time). Apart from a few french sticks and some rolls, delivered each morning, they only sell packaged sliced bread. To get to the nearest bakers of fresh bread is a 40 minute round trip (on foot) or 30 minutes in the car. So we decided to bake our own.

Has anyone tried the gluten free recipes, I have a bag of gluten free flour and thought about trying it but the recipe provided looks very complicated and with only doubtful result.

buxtonrabbitgreen

Hi
I have made the gluten free loaf. It's not really complicated. I used ordinary malt vinegar, as that was all I had in. My ds's gf said it was the only nice gluten free bread she had ever eaten. Result. The loaf doesn't rise so much. But the texture is quite nice.

Mel2

usignuolo wrote: »

Well I added more water as suggested by Panasonic customer services, but the blade still stays inside.

One final question, the upper bread crust comes out fine when hot but as it cools, the top goes kind of flakey?

How about just using the machine to make the dough and baking the loaf in a bread tin in the oven? I always do it this way so that I get a more traditional shaped loaf. I've got a large Jamie Oliver silicone loaf pan which I love (you don't need to grease it at all and nothing ever sticks!) and I make the dough with the recipe in my panasonic book for the large loaf (I never use butter, just 2.5 tablespoons of olive oil and I never use milk powder-everything else stays the same). When the dough cycle is finished I plop the dough out onto an oiled chopping board. Shape it slightly without knocking all the air out of it and put it in the tin. I then let it double in size which takes 30-40 mins, sprinkle some flour or seeds on top, then bake at 190 in my fan oven for 40 minutes. Perfect loaf without a hole in the bottom and it goes much further as it's longer and more traditionally shaped!

Hippychick51_2

Hi my first post. Thanks to all the people on this site who have convinced me that a Panasonic Breadmaker was the way forward! I did order a Morphy Richards, at first, from another company, which I researched on the Kelkoo site and when it came I was shocked to find it was 'refurbished' which meant it was scratched, dented, has a photocopied instruction book and no measuring utensils. I sent it back and got a refund and then ordered a new Panasonic S255 breadmaker from Amazon, Used it yesterday for first time, may cost twice as much as the Morphy Richards but it looks like its up to the job. Used 100% Tesco Stoneground flour. Loaf has sunk in middle but tastes better than shop-bought. Think I will try 75/25 mix next time. Didn't have any trouble with kneading blade removal.

usignuolo

There was a note inside my Panasonic bm box saying you got best results with North American or Canadian flour, so I bought a packet of Strong Red Canadian flour from Waitrose and got excellent results. When I ran out of that I bought some Tesco Strong flour (marked as suitable for bread making). It was hopeless. I am going to try wholemeal next. For those who want to buy large quantities of breadmaking flour, you could try ordering it via the web at http://www.flourbin.com/help/ (I think they are in Chesterfield if you want to buy direct).

roses

I pour a bit of oil over the hole in the paddle before I do a loaf, works for me.

usignuolo

Have just been shopping in Sainsburys and bought some VERY Strong wholemeal flour to try out, but the only place so far I have been able to buy Canadian flour (named as such) is in Waitrose.