Breadmaker - £14.99! Quick!!

greenpixey

flufff wrote:

let us know how you get on.I'll have to get a measuring jug and some ingredients tomorrow to try mine

I'll let you know .
There is measuring jugs and stuff inside the breadmaker have a look there before you buy any. All I needed was kitchen scales to weigh the flour, had to ask my neighbour to borrow hers, mine seem to have stoped functioning

waterlilyann

I hope the bread comes out ok...thought it was such a steal at £15 but am now feeling a real responsibility in case it doesn't work well - it's the first time I've posted a bargain and am keeping my fingers crossed

Would have bought on myself but my mum has a habit of buying LOADS of gadgets and realising that she doesn't use them so have inherited her wonderful breadmaker and couldn't be without it now!! :T

Let us know how the bread turns out............

raeble

Nothing wrong with a cheapo breadmaker. I bought one a few years back for £25. I must admit I've never used the recipes in the manual after the first time. Bread recipes are easy enough to find - back of flour packets is one place, so it doesn't really matter if you don't have any in your manual. I did get myself an electric scale though. If you want to weigh water and your scale doesn't have the facility 1gram = 1 ml.

flufff

Had chance to take it out of box now.Found the measuring cup thankyou!Recipies look good.But what is "strong" flour.Am I correct in assuming I use self raising or does it not matter with yeast?Also is yeast located next to flour in tescos aaaaaaargh!

flufff

I cant see this being as cheap as tescos value bread but looking at recipies like madeira and malt loaf will be a nice cheap luxury.

susank

You need dried yeast sachets and strong bread making flour which contains more gluten than normal flour and makes very good bread. Usually the recipes also require dry milk powder too.

raeble

flufff wrote:

Had chance to take it out of box now.Found the measuring cup thankyou!Recipies look good.But what is "strong" flour.Am I correct in assuming I use self raising or does it not matter with yeast?Also is yeast located next to flour in tescos aaaaaaargh!

Strong flour is bread making flour. You can use self raising flour but it likely not to rise as much or have the same consistency as bread baked using strong bread flour. You need to use yeast or your bread will not rise. You should find the yeast and strong flour located next to the self raising and plain flour. It is in Sainsbury's.

Yes this is never going to be as cheap as the value bread but with this you know exactly what you put into the bread and the house smells lovely.

BrandNewDay

We don't like the value bread - I'm a fan of the Warburtons farmhouse white - and so I figure this might actually save us some money. Plus, we're moving to a place where the only place to buy bread without making a special, 20-minute trip in a car, is a small Spar.

The idea that I can make banana walnut bread has me all aquiver!

I won't know, though, until we've moved and I've unpacked the thing and had a chance to use it. I'll definitely post about it when I do.

flufff

Thankyou Raeble,much appreciated.I used to buy proper bakers loaves as a treat at weekend but value bread rest of time,thicks fine toasted.Plus if fuel keeps going up it may save me a few trips to shops.Looking forward to having a try.Only thing I think is a shame but cant be helped is having to remove the mixer thing out of bottom of loaf/cake.As a rule do the loaves stick or are they pretty easy to remove?

greenpixey

The loaf turned out really great. Sunk a tiny bit but I'd say it was 99% good. Tasted lovely too. My husband ate half of the loaf last night. Left enough for the kids to have toast this morning and for him to have two sandwiches with him to work.
So I got my secon loaf on the go in the bread maker now
Been to asdas as well this morning to get walnuts and eggs to try the banana walnut cake later this afternoon.
So far I'm well happy with the purchase:j

Thanks again waterlilyann for the tip