Changed breadmaker yeast - poor results!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

SilverBird wrote: »

I use Dove's Farm yeast in the orange packet and own-brand strong flour - good results every time.

Me too. I bake by hand (realised the only breadmaker I could fit in the kitchen was called the oven) and just use whatever strong flour I can get (usually organic though). It's been nicknamed Godzilla bread (up from the depths, 30 stories high...)

I -

switch the oven and radio on

chuck in a pound of flour, a tightly cupped palm of yeast, large pinch of sea salt, tightly cupped palm of sugar/blodge of honey, 100ml boiling water, 200 ml cold liquid and palmful of oil.

Work it together for a bit and leave in the old rice cooker bowl sitting on top of the oven with a teatowel or cling film over the top for a cuppa.

Come back and knead it around whilst listening to radio, using plain flour to stop it sticking to worktop.

Slap on/in tin greased and floured, cover up again and go off to watch TV/pick kids up/whatever.

Remember dough, go back to kitchen, look shocked at size of loaf, chuck in oven (with tin of water on bottom rack).

Bake with kitchen window open until passers by are sniffing air, take out and tap, stick on top of wok ring until cool enough for Bloke and DD2 to forcibly remove from kitchen with butter.

It's a bit of a black art, as it seems that some people find it simple, others don't - but it's not such an expensive thing to practice with compared to cakes!

SUESMITH_2

i've used boith and never had any probles with the orange packet yeast but i always use strong flour

kah22

When I'm using my bread machine I work by weight rather than volume, when measuring flour, sugar, salt, milk, and yeast as it is much more accurate.

When adding yeast I find I get perfect results by adding 4 grams per loaf but as there are 7 grams in each of those little packets that supermarkets sell' but that means of course you are constantly opening a second packet just to get an extra gram or two.

Do members know if there are any online stores where you can buy a larger quantity of dried yeast for bread machines. As I make at least two loaves every three days this would probably make better economic sense.

Kevin

As a matter of interest here is my perfect loaf

1 1/8 cup of water
28 grams of Brown sugar
14 grams of dried milk
7 grams of salt.
2 1/2 Tablespoons of olive oil
150 grams of strong white flour
200 grams of strong wholemeal flour
4 grams of fast acting yeast

Cooked on the wholemeal setting.

SailorSam

There was a thread on here a few weeks ago saying how good the Doves yeast in a conical packet, i think from Tesco. I've been looking out for that, is it different than the one you're talking about.

kah22

Yep, says it's for a bread machine but like yourself I haven't seen it sold locally. Maybe I'll visit their site later and see if it can be bought online.

Kevin

purpleivy

My MIL was moaning about her BM which is really quite old. She thought there was something wrong with it, as she's not getting a good loaf.

THen she tried running warm water round the pan before she started and also making the bread with lukewarm water. Upped the yeast slightly. She reckoned that the kitchen is too cool and we've been having a lot of cold weather. She's now getting good results again.

Swan_2

kah22 wrote: »

<snip>Do members know if there are any online stores where you can buy a larger quantity of dried yeast for bread machines. As I make at least two loaves every three days this would probably make better economic sense.<snip>

Kevin

I get Fermipan in a red 500g pack, from Flourbin, who sell all sorts of wonderful specialist flours ... b-u-t ... delivery is £6.95 for up to & including 28 Kg of goods

I get my yeast along with an order of flour & I think it's worth the expense because the bread some of these flours produce are better than anything I've ever made with supermarket flour in decades of breadmaking, hand or machine

but I realise that not everyone would be interested in specialist flours or want to send off for goods in bulk like that

there are various places on-line sell it, but the postage is prohibitive for a product that actually costs £3+, one place is offering it for £11.37 delivered :eek:


perhaps your local health food shop could order it for you? or maybe some other MSE-ers know of a cheaper way to get it???


must give your recipe a try