Bread Maker - worth it?

skaps

bought tesco bread flour yesterday which said 68p but when i scanned it it came up as 61p - what a result

MegandNicsmum

I bought bread flour in Lidl (okay, it was in Scotland) but it was 43p!!! All of their flours were that price!

cooking-mama

Is that for a 1kg or 1.5kg bag? Ive never seen bread flour in our local Lidl...or our Aldi,only plain or SR....will look again this week tho.

skaps

1.5kg in tesco.

bhz-2

Can anyone pls help me:

I've just bought a Panasonic 254 and made my first loaf of bread.

I used Hovis strong wholemeal flour and Hovis yeast. Although it tastes ok, I thought it was a bit heavy. What should I do to make lighter brown/wholemeal loaves? (I don't really want to use white flour). Will it help if I add one or two eggs and reduce the amount of water accordingly?

Thanks in advance.

skaps

Im not sure about this. Sorrybhz-2. I experimented with atta (whole wheat
flour found in asian shops) and strong white bread flour to make rolls yesterday and they have come out well. The recipe for rolls is 3 cups of flour so i used 1 cup of atta and 2 cups of stong white bread flour. Going keep doing this as i have so much of this flour already.

Justamum

bhz-2 wrote: »

Can anyone pls help me:

I've just bought a Panasonic 254 and made my first loaf of bread.

I used Hovis strong wholemeal flour and Hovis yeast. Although it tastes ok, I thought it was a bit heavy. What should I do to make lighter brown/wholemeal loaves? (I don't really want to use white flour). Will it help if I add one or two eggs and reduce the amount of water accordingly?

Thanks in advance.

If you used all wholemeal then it will be heavy. I usually use 1/4 wholemeal to 3/4 white - it's still tasty, but not as solid as pure wholemeal. You won't get the same light, fluffy type of wholemeal which is available in the shops.

stroppyjock

Does it work out a lot cheaper making your own bread? I have a machine I used to use for Sunday morning fresh bread etc etc but would it be better/cheaper to use it all the time?

Penelope_Penguin

stroppyjock wrote: »

Does it work out a lot cheaper making your own bread? I have a machine I used to use for Sunday morning fresh bread etc etc but would it be better/cheaper to use it all the time?

As long as you compare the quality of HM with ready-prepared, HM works out cheaper for most things

I use my BM during the week, and make bread by hand at the weekend :j

We have a long thread on just this topic, so I'll add your post and you can see the experience of other posters.

Penny. x

stroppyjock

Thank you PP , looks like I will dustingdown the BM for some serious use!!