Bread making for a single person?

HH62

I am becoming increasingly frustrated at the price of bread and have been thinking about getting a breadmaker.

However, I'm a bit concerned about making too much. There's only me in the house. If I make a full loaf I'm likely to scoff the lot :eek: . Is it possible to make a small amount in a bread maker, say 3 or 4 bread rolls? I seem to have more control around bread rolls and would eat one or two that day and freeze the others. But with yummy fresh bread, something about slicing it makes me want ALL OF IT! :rotfl:
I'd make some rolls probably every 4 days or so, am I still going to save money doing it this way or should I just continue to buy them?
Oh and how easy is it to make rolls?

lickylonglips

just make your bread dough in the breadmaker - as much or as little as you want - then put it into the oven divided how you want....

it'smeinit

Hi

I gave up buying bread about two months ago when I came across this recipe, I don't use a bread maker as I have seen to many for sale at bootsales. I wonder why!! You can't beat a kenwood old school mixer with a dough hook.

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

Give it a go and cut the quantities if needed. A tip which I read is to put 1/2 a tea spoon of sugar in to the water helps activate the yeast. Yumm Yumm

u751904

I have this bread maker http://www.lakeland.co.uk/14760/Morphy-Richards-Daily-Loaf there are three of us well two adults and a five year old. A loaf pretty much lasts a day and a half for us (not much sandwich making mainly toast and a small sandwich for child).

you could get this.
you could get a bigger breadmaker and freeze half the bread. this would be fine. you may have cake making and jam making options on the bigger models this just does bread or dough.

flutterbyuk25

I have a small-ish breadmaker and live on my own. I only tend to eat bread on weekends for breakfast as toast so I make a loaf, then when cooled i cut into slices and freeze the rest. This way a loaf (10slices) lasts a month or so.

HTH

x

marmiterulesok

I have a BM and wouldn't be without it.

I do eat more bread now.I make a small/medium loaf about once a week.Usually there is the option to make small loaves.

You could always make a loaf,slice it and freeze it.That way,you just take out the number of slices that you need.If you don't do that,and the bread is a bit 'past-it',you can use it for toast or breadcrumbs.

I've never made rolls with the BM,so can't answer that query.

HTH.

PS. I also live on my own.

Eliza_2

I'm on my own and also use a bread-maker, mine cost under £20 from Argos and its been well used! I either make a whole loaf, large or small and let it run through the whole cycle, then slice and freeze like others, or I do the whole lot on dough setting, then make rolls, small loaves, cottage loaves (they look so cute) single sized pizza bases, plaited loaves etc etc and freeze again or I set the machine to go for a full loaf, then after about an hour and a half I pull out a handful of dough and make a few rolls. For a few rolls my table top oven/grill is brilliant, I would never do this if I had to heat a whole oven.

You can get pretty creative with it, it takes a lot of the slog out of breadmaking though I know lots of people find that therapeutic - I used to make bread by hand for the family always, when the kids were at home - big chunky rustic loaves baked in a roasting tin - lovely but not now. Incidentally you find the urge to eat the whole loaf as soon as it comes out of the oven does wear off after a bit along with the novelty.

You can also use it for making small quantities of jam, cake etc. I'm sure I remember a thread in days of yore about being solo old style, might be some other ideas on there.

Eliza