homemade bread

bkca1230

hi is it cheaper to make bread in bread machine rather than buy sliced bread from supermarket. i normally buy 50/50 for the children and wholemeal for my husband.

gillian62

Hi, Yes is the easy answer. I always look for offers on bread flour - Asda is often consistently cheaper, but you can often buy 3 for 2's and stock up at other supermarkets. Sometimes even yeast is 3 for 2.

I only make my own bread now - I sometimes buy my DS4 a basic wholemeal loaf, but rest of family eats mine. I use a 50/50 mix, often with seeds & wheatbran (hidden way to sneak some fibre into the diets).

Farway

There is a thread on this somewhere, basically it boils down to quality for price

If you buy the Smartprice sliced for instance then it is cheaper to buy, if however you buy the say Hovis or other branded / artisan bread then make own is cheaper

Cost of course does not compare to quality, with home made it is just flour, water, yeast, maybe bit of butter / oil /salt - just look on ingredients of your sliced loaf to compare

Wholemeal is not as easy in BM, it is not possible to get the "fluffy" style achieved in supermarkets as they use the Chorleywood method commercially

No doubt someone with better search powers than I will point you to the older threads on this subject

phizzimum

I buy sliced white bread for my kids (hangs head in shame!) as I can't get my homemade white bread light enough for their taste. But I make wholemeal soda bread for me and DH.

I've never bothered to cost the soda bread before but I've just spent a few minutes and worked out it costs 28p in ingredients (no idea about the cost of elec used to bake it, but I do try to do it when the oven is on for other things too) I use 250g of flour so it's only a small loaf, but it means it gets eaten quickly and doesn't go stale.

ETA: just got a loaf out of the oven and weighed it - 472 g

Penelope_Penguin

bkca1230 wrote: »

hi is it cheaper to make bread in bread machine rather than buy sliced bread from supermarket. i normally buy 50/50 for the children and wholemeal for my husband.

It is You can also make bread by hand, which cuts out the cost of the BM :T

*Maya*

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

It is You can also make bread by hand, which cuts out the cost of the BM :T

Do you have a foolproof recipe for white bread please? Every recipe I try, including Delia's turns out really dense.

zippychick

here's one of Thriftladys if it helps

Energy cost of a bread machine is about a year since it's beeen posted in but it would give you an idea of previous discussion

there is another cost thread but i can't put my finger on it at this very moment....

Penelope_Penguin

*Maya* wrote: »

Do you have a foolproof recipe for white bread please? Every recipe I try, including Delia's turns out really dense.

I'm making sourdough atm, and if you can invest a week of your time (and are happy to dispose of some of the starter to get you going) it'll be the best bread you've tasted It's chewy, but not dense.

HFW recipe here

I improve on Delia, by allowing the dough to rise for ages Give it a first rise for a couple of hours, then possibly a second 2 hour one. Allow it a final rise of a few hours at this time of year, or even overnight.

Penelope_Penguin

zippychick wrote: »

there is another cost thread but i can't put my finger on it at this very moment....

Is HM bread really cheaper?

zippychick

Darn it! Well done!:j:D

LJM

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2060/easy-white-bread

this is an easy recipe