Lidl Bifinett breadmaker - any recipes that work?

therealdocmartin

Hi all
Just to say that if you dont have one already or want to get one as a present, Lidl will be selling the breadmaker (looks like the KH1171 model) from 7th April 2011 for 34.99 See: http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/lidl_uk/hs.xsl/offerdate.htm?offerdate=19604
There's even a product video!

tronator

therealdocmartin wrote: »

Hi all
Just to say that if you dont have one already or want to get one as a present, Lidl will be selling the breadmaker (looks like the KH1171 model) from 7th April 2011 for 34.99 See: http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/lidl_uk/hs.xsl/offerdate.htm?offerdate=19604
There's even a product video!

Bought the same two years ago for £24.99...

david1949

Hi all i have been given a Lidl Bifinett KH2231 bread maker i have tried 6 times to bake bread i followed all the of the recipes to the letter and still the bread is rubbish I am about to though it in the bin but what i would like to know is can i use plain white flour instead of strong white flour.

jpscloud

Hi david, I wouldn't use plain flour - bread flour is called "strong" because it has more gluten in it and makes an elastic enough dough to help the bread to rise. Plain flour just wouldn't rise in the same way.

I'm not sure if this has already been recommended, but I add a crushed vitamin C tablet to my breadmaker recipes. It makes the bread rise better.

I have a Morphy Richards fastbake, I use the manual's recipe for 'softgrain bread' but use half a cup of oatbran substituted for half a cup of flour, and pumpkin seeds/mixed seeds instead of wholegrains.

I always leave out the dried skimmed milk and the oil that the recipes call for too.

I usually get really nice loaves but sometimes when I've tried to use too much oatbran they come out very solid (think housebricks!)

tronator

david1949 wrote: »

Hi all i have been given a Lidl Bifinett KH2231 bread maker i have tried 6 times to bake bread i followed all the of the recipes to the letter and still the bread is rubbish I am about to though it in the bin but what i would like to know is can i use plain white flour instead of strong white flour.

Try out the Lidl breadmixes. They are £1.18 atm (used to be £0.99, then £1.29) for 1kg, which will give you two loaves. Just add water and that's it. I love the wholemeal mix and that's the only one I buy for years now...

At the beginning I tried out a few recipes and they never turned out as good.

Recently I tried out the Lidl strong bread flour and followed a basic recipe. It went quite ok, but I like my bread darker. If I would start buying brown bread flour I would spend maybe the same as I spend on the ready mix. So I abandoned the idea...

HTH

david1949

jpscloud wrote: »

Hi david, I wouldn't use plain flour - bread flour is called "strong" because it has more gluten in it and makes an elastic enough dough to help the bread to rise. Plain flour just wouldn't rise in the same way.

I'm not sure if this has already been recommended, but I add a crushed vitamin C tablet to my breadmaker recipes. It makes the bread rise better.

I have a Morphy Richards fastbake, I use the manual's recipe for 'softgrain bread' but use half a cup of oatbran substituted for half a cup of flour, and pumpkin seeds/mixed seeds instead of wholegrains.

I always leave out the dried skimmed milk and the oil that the recipes call for too.

I usually get really nice loaves but sometimes when I've tried to use too much oatbran they come out very solid (think housebricks!)

Thank,s for the reply i thought the the yeast was for to make the bread rise so why use vitamin C or do you leave the yeast out. The bread i baked was buttermilk bread and Oatmeal bread the were heavy and no taste and as i said before i followed the recipe to the letter. So i am going to have one more go and use plain flour this time it could be the type of breadmaker it may not be the best it was given to me the person i got it from bought it put it away and never used it so it sat around for 4 years unused there are good breadmakers and bad breadmakers and i might have a bad one

david1949

tronator wrote: »

Try out the Lidl breadmixes. They are £1.18 atm (used to be £0.99, then £1.29) for 1kg, which will give you two loaves. Just add water and that's it. I love the wholemeal mix and that's the only one I buy for years now...

At the beginning I tried out a few recipes and they never turned out as good.

Recently I tried out the Lidl strong bread flour and followed a basic recipe. It went quite ok, but I like my bread darker. If I would start buying brown bread flour I would spend maybe the same as I spend on the ready mix. So I abandoned the idea...

HTH

My breabmaker has 2 bread pots is this Lidl breadmixes put into one are divided between the two

jpscloud

Oats/oatbran do make bread more solid, so you could maybe experiment with the amount you use.

There's a thread about vitamin C in breadmaking:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/19125487#Comment_19125487

All I can say is my bread rises better when I use it!

david1949

I was told that all strong bread flour contained vitamin C at the moment i am using Carr's strong bread flour.

david1949

I am making a Whole wheat bread the recipe calls for 150g wheat flour which is strong bread flour also 180g of whole wheat flour i have looked around the shops but cant fine any would wholemeal flour instead .