Bread Maker - worth it?

purpleivy

Unless you eat value white bread, yes. We like good quality bread and get that from our Panasonic 253. Although we don't use as many loaves as we used to (fewer packed lunches these days) we use it for burger buns, pizza dough, garlic bread etc etc.

Uniscots97

Thanks to the OP, I was planning on posting the same question. Are bread makers easy to clean? and do you buy the bread mixes from the supermarket or what the easiest recipe you have? Does anyone have a bread recipe I could try out on my lot before I buy a bread maker? Preferably one that doesn't require a loaf tin.

pigpen

sara_501 wrote: »

are these figures wrong then?

yes.. I believe so

It depends how much you pay for your flour.. I pay 48p for mine.. I don't use butter.. I just stork.. the yeast is the same price.

1 bag of flour does 4 loaves (2lb)

12p flour
1p yeast
10p combined cost of sugar/marg/salt/milk powder.. I buy huge amounts of these so the amount used in eat loaf is next to nothing

23p for ingredients plus 10p for the electricity (a VERY generous over estimate I think) for each loaf so yes the figures on that website aren't accurate by my calculations and experience.

given that my breadmaker cost such a small amount that meant mine was paid for within 3 weeks.. I think you need to look at the model you would buy if you were to buy one.. work out how much your ingredients would cost and do the maths..

unix.. any bread recipe would work and just blobbed on a tray in the oven would be like one of the bloomers you can buy from tesco.. .. hand made is nicer than a breadmaker too.. and it doesn't have the spatula hole in the bottom!

slicing.. i have one of the lakeland things.. the folding one.. it was about £5 I think.. works a treat. Just an ordinary bread knife works fine

Uniscots97

Pigpen, do you have a recipe I could try please? and out of interest what model of breadmaker do you have?

studentgirl_2

Yeast at 1p did I read that right??!!

Were do you get that from

purpleivy

I use all types of flour, sometimes the 48p that Pigpen describes. I also like malted flour,which we get from the mill. THis is less than £9 for 16kg. This will make 32 loaves, so less than 30p for flour. I add seeds as well, I don't know how much seeded unsliced malted loaves of fab quality go for in the shops, but a [EMAIL="d@rn"]d@rn[/EMAIL] sight more than it costs me.

At the end of the day, even if I wasn't trying to watch the pennies, I would still do it, as it's a quality of life thing, like having nice coffee.

pigpen

studentgirl wrote: »

Yeast at 1p did I read that right??!!

Were do you get that from

no... it is 99p for the pack but you don't use the whole lot.. just a little bit

pigpen

I use..

4 cups flour (2 of bread flour and 2 'value' flour usually)
1 1/3rd cups luke warm water
2 table spoons sugar
2 table spoons oil/marg/whatever I have
2 table spoons milk powder.. I prefer it with this in but it isn't really necessary as I found when I ran out!
1 teaspoon salt (usually less cos I don't like it!)
1 teaspoon dried yeast

Uniscots97

Thanks Pigpen I'm going to give this a go.

sara_501

me too

got £10 tesco giftcard due from survey site, so that'll do nicely against the cost of the tesco machine +clubcard points result.