Bread maker vs shop bought bread

cazj80

JoeyG wrote: »

I use a Morphy Richards Fastbake, I've not bought a loaf of bread for 4 years!... It takes less than 5 minutes to throw the ingredients in at the end of the night, that's quicker than I could get down the shop.

The only way you can go wrong is to use the recipes in the manual

JoeyG, I was wondering what recipes you use, out of interest?

I have a MR Fastbake, and only use the recipe book, and maybe I am missing out on some much better loaves of bread!!

Kirri

cazj80 wrote: »

JoeyG, I was wondering what recipes you use, out of interest?

I have a MR Fastbake, and only use the recipe book, and maybe I am missing out on some much better loaves of bread!!

I use a cheap book on Amazon that has very good review, think I read about it on here before! Called 'fresh bread in the morning' as it has recipes that suit most popular breadmakers but without a lot of the unnecessary ingredients that the bread machine manufacturers try and tell you to put in, ie the dried milk. Plus there are other ideas like using malt extract instead of sugar to try.

JoeyG

cazj80 wrote: »

JoeyG, I was wondering what recipes you use, out of interest?

I have a MR Fastbake, and only use the recipe book, and maybe I am missing out on some much better loaves of bread!!

Kirri above is spot on, I use this:

2 cups water, 3 tbsp olive oil, 1 tbsp honey, 1 tsp salt, 1 cup strong white flour, 3 cups wholewheat flour, 1/2 tsp dried yeast, 1/2 tsp vit C powder

I use filtered water because I worry about the chlorine in tap water affecting the yeast, but never from the fridge as would be too cold.

Swan_2

here are some sites with BM recipes

you should be able to adapt any of them to suit your BM, remembering to put the ingredients in in the order your manual tells you to


Carrs

King Arthur Flour

Kenwood

Panasonic you have to select a model & tick a box to access the manuals & recipes


& the recipe for the seeded bread that Cake mentioned a few posts back

PoshPaw’s seeded bread

1/2 pint water
8oz malty flour of your choice*
8oz strong plain flour
1 Tablespoon oil
3 Tablespoons rolled oats
1 + 1/2 teaspoons honey
1 teaspoon salt
1 + 1/4 teaspoons yeast
1 Tablespoon of seeds of your choice, or more, I sometimes use 6 or 7

medium/large loaf seeded/fruit setting

*the malty flour you choose will alter the result, but it's always good

I've tried it in a MR, a Kenwood & a Panny & it works beautifully in them all

blushingbride_3

oh i'm glad i found this thread

anyone know any offers on breadmakers as mine broke last week

hermum

I bought a cheapo carlton breadmaker from ebay for £1.24 after my morphy richards broke.
The results are as good as the MR.
I think that once you've had HM bread the supermarket stuff tastes horrible.
As others say it only takes minutes to throw everything in the BM.

mymerrywidow

there is a 80p off wrights bread flour on the coupon thread. the flour costs 85p in tesco at the moment so you get it for 5p:j:j:j:j:j:j:j

purplecow

I use my breadmaker every day too, for making dough for pizza, as well as loaves of bread. It has a cake function and I've also used it to make chutney. Don't forget you might be able to get a breadmaker off freecycle.

geordie_joe

mymerrywidow wrote: »

there is a 80p off wrights bread flour on the coupon thread. the flour costs 85p in tesco at the moment so you get it for 5p:j:j:j:j:j:j:j

In tesco it ranges from 75p to 98p depending on what "flavour" you get. In Morrisons it's all 89p.

Swan_2

if it's strong white bread flour you're after, the best one commonly available is Lidl's, its usually 68p & sometimes reduced to as little as 50p

in my experience it outperforms even the most expensive premium branded flours, it's well worth a try