making your own bread - worth it?

want2bmortgage3

seeing as own brand loaves are about 78p and brand names nearing £1.50p should i buy a bread-maker and try myself???

In_debt_5

Bread is one thing I cant compromise on so always bought branded. Bought a breadmaker last weekend (£70 reduced to £35)and have made a loaf each day (for 3 of us) and it has cost the grand total of £2.50 in flour.

The taste is out of this world and I am vowing never to buy a shop bought loaf again.

Trinny

Hi There

We dont have a bread maker - my OH is brilliant at making bread - but it is time consuming and we do work full time - so we do bake our own - as a treat at the weekends.

Trin

purpleivy

When you say 'worth it'....

Do you mean financially and moneysaving worth it? OR
Do you mean quality of life -you-can't-buy-bread-anything-like-as-good-as-I-can-make worth it?

If you are used to eating good quality bread rather than value loaf, then yes it probably is worth it.

We make pizza dough, naan bread dough, bread rolls, bread sticks etc etc etc, all much nicer than the bought stuff.

Worth it? Yess yess yessssss!

MortgageMamma

ifyou buy a bread maker look at the panasonic sd255 i think its the best around. I have one myself and it makes perfect loaves every time. you can also make brioche, ciabatta, garlic bread, raisin loaf in it etc. there are some types of flour that are expensive but I used the cheaper ones and they are just as good. Stay away from asdas sachets of dried yeast though they are rubbish - I could stick a straw into a dough and get it to rise better!

buxtonrabbitgreen

I buy 4 bags of white flour and 4 bags of wholemeal and 4 packets of various seeds at the beginning of the month and that usually lasts me for a loaf a day in the panasonic (oh and a couple of packs of yeast) I may buy 2 or 3 loaves a month if I simply don't have time to load the panasonic . So that's about £9 per month for a loaf a day of lovely seeded bread and the occasional fast white when I am in a hurry. hth

BitterAndTwisted

The main disadvantage of making bread at home is how much more of the stuff you're going to be packing away. Yum!

MrsE_2

I thought about it, but when off the idea when I found out there would be a big hole (from a paddle) in the bottom of the loaf.

geordie_joe

want2bmortgage3 wrote: »

seeing as own brand loaves are about 78p and brand names nearing £1.50p should i buy a bread-maker and try myself???

Why not try and make your own bread without the bread maker, it's not that hard and there are plenty of web sites that show you how.

You can even get packets of bread mix, so you don't have to buy flour/yeast etc. If nothing else, it will show you just what the bread maker does for you, and if you can do it for your self.

PasturesNew

I live alone and bought one. Didn't get a panasonic (will next time) and had problems at the start with the mix working into the paddle so it was baking solid to the base. So I started using it just to make dough, which was working out great..... except I then had to put a whole oven on just to bake one loaf (oven takes 30 minutes to heat up, then there's the baking time). Then the breadmaker started unscrewing itself from the base half way through the rising stage, so I literally had to stand by it at the right time and when it came loose I had to quickly grab it and twist it back on.

In the future, I'll definitely get another one, but next time a Panasonic. But I won't get one until some future point when I have a freezer as I was finding I'd bake a loaf and then eat the whole thing the same day, or at least within 24 hours (over 2 days) just to eat it up before it went off.

Before anybody says "make your own", I have weak wrists so can't do the kneading - and I have some other odd phobia/reasons why I'd never do it. I would consider looking into a dough hook on a mixer though, I think they might be a way round it.

geordie_joe

MrsE wrote: »

I thought about it, but when off the idea when I found out there would be a big hole (from a paddle) in the bottom of the loaf.

I had one for years, and it was always a thrill when the paddle stopped sideways on to the loaf. That meant the hole would only cover a couple of slices, three at most, but when it stopped running length ways you got a hole in most of the slices.

Mine used to stop and beeb when it was time to put the"extras" in, and I never understood why it couldn't do that to allow you to take the paddle out.