Breadmaker £13.99

Chia

123sonny123 wrote: »

Been going through 3 'proper' bread books recently and all agree on certain things:

Try not to use 'fast bake' options. The longer bread is cooked for - the better it is for you (nutrients, 'digestability' etc.)

That is interesting...did the books go into any more detail on how this works? It seems like often in terms of nutrients, the opposite is true (less cooking = higher nutritional value).

kenr

jax.26 wrote: »

Hi
When the recipe book refers to 'cups of flour' does this mean the measuring cup that came with the breadmaker?
Thanks

That or any other "cup" measure it is an American standard, I think it used to be their standard coffee cup before they went to the gallon size they use now

Most cookbooks will give you a conversion table for cups->g but it depends on they thing being measured, as a cup of flour i heaver than say a cup of grated cheese.

whoK

if anyone looking for one of this, there are 4 in Currys in Cardiff Newport road branch eventhough it shows no stock on reserve and collect. one is boxed the other on disply.

poormaria

oooo can you check other stores whoK?

123sonny123

Chia wrote: »

That is interesting...did the books go into any more detail on how this works? It seems like often in terms of nutrients, the opposite is true (less cooking = higher nutritional value).

I agree with you there - that's generally true for things that can be eaten in their 'natural' state.

For example, vegetables. A lot of them contain vitamins and minerals and can be eaten raw or cooked. But, OVERcooking them kills the nutrients.

However bread flour cannot be eaten raw. It has to be cooked to it's optimal state. And the authors believe the optimal state is when more time is taken. Not lots of time but enough time.

Most mass produced loaves (using the Chorleywood process) use an excess of yeast and mechanical means to try and get air into the dough quickly to short cut the proving time. They also shorten the expensive cooking time which is why these loaves are often very wet and you can almost compress them back to dough form. People are eating unfermented undercooked dough...which is why people have wheat intolerances and toasters are so popular.

The books I browsed through are:

Bread Matters - Why and How to Make Your Own - A Whitley
Dough - Richard Bertinet
Bread - Eric Treuille and Ursula Ferrigno

Bread Matters by A Whitley is the one to read as he is very passionate about the state of bread in our country at the mo. Just read the first 30-40 pages and you'll see what I mean.

- note that they are not for breadmakers but I still read them to get a good background. Most are quite scientific and go deep into 'bread culture', rather than just offer page after page of recipes with fancy photos.

They have given me the confidence to make 'proper' hand made bread in the near future.

azima123

The kneading paddle arrived this morning and I'm just waiting now for my first loaf to be ready. The whole house smells delicious, nothing better then the scent of freshly baked bread.

scorpiokitten

azima123 wrote: »

The kneading paddle arrived this morning and I'm just waiting now for my first loaf to be ready. The whole house smells delicious, nothing better then the scent of freshly baked bread.

Agree 100%, just love the smell of freshly baked/baking bread.

In fact it was a massive reason towards why i got one of these breadmakers too, let alone the end product! Which are all delicious! :T lol

xx

Lynsey

Tomorrow I'm going to try out Aldi's 28p flour to see how it goes and to compare.
Obviously not "proper" bread flour, so the birds may get a feast, or it might turn out fine.
Anyone else tried "cheap" flour yet??

Lynsey

Search_2

I was going to try a cake in the breadmaker but there weren't any recipes in the book. I wondered if anyone happened to know any (very simple!) sponge cake or chocolate cake recipes suitable for the breadmaker by any chance? Thanks very much.

imposter

I was too late on this - they were all gone in my area. Anyway, I popped into Curry's Bath the other day to pick up the £10 Hitachi toaster advertised here and they had a Kenwood BM150 breadmaker on clearance for £20 down from £60 - it was the display model but they had the box and manual, and it was in great shape, so I snapped it up. At the till, a happy surprise - it rang through at £15! So stainless steel £50 toaster and £60 Kenwood breadmaker for £25 total - yay!