Do bread machines become faulty?

glitterpuss

Have you changed the brand of butter you use?
I always use own brand butter - mostly essential Waitrose, but when this was not available I changed to branded butter. My bread maker (for some reason) did not like the branded butter and produced loaves very similar to yours.

I too thought my Panny was broken, but tried for the final time with own brand butter from Tesco, and my loaves were back to normal.

HTH

ASC

Had the same problem with mine a few months ago (so not the hot weather!)

Must admit I assumed it was the thermostat so currently only using it to mix dough but it's annoying. Will watch this thread with interest, maybe it's worth giving it another chance

A x

sonastin

Are you using a new bag of flour? I've made loaves that looked like that and according to the panny manual troubleshooting, it was because of too much water. I reduced the water and hey presto, solved. I've read on here that different flours have different absorbencies. If its a new bag, even if its a brand you've used before, it could have come from a batch that doesn't need as much water. Try using 10ml less water and see if that fixes it...

greentiger

i had this problem too, but it went away when I bought new yeast, although the other stuff had been well in date still.

Jenny.W

thanks for the replies. Nothing with ingredients has changed, have been using and doing the same thing throughout......

Called the panny helpline and they told me to try canadian/american strong flour from Waitrose.

So after 6 miserable bricks in a row, I woke up to this, this morning



apparently it's something to do with protein/gluten

ariba10

We have had no problems with the flour from Lidl.

And reasonably priced!