Bread Maker v Kenwood Chef?

vivaladiva

I've had a breadmaker for ages but hardly use it - don't like the texture - it always seems a bit rubbery. Anyway for various other reasons I had been considering getting a Kenwood Chef. Might I get a better bread result if I made up the dough in this and then baked it 'properly' in the oven?

TIA

nick_b

Yes! Yes, do it! I use my KC for kneading the dough and I get great results. You can alter the proving and rising times as well if you bake in the oven.

Beckipeg

I tried making bread with our Kenwood Chef, but the result is always far 'yeastier' than using our breadmaker. What type of breadmaker do you have? We've found that Panasonic makes the type of bread we prefer and use it almost every day. Probably not worth getting a Kenwood Chef just for bread, but it's useful for loads of other stuff - we have the blender attachment, also make cakes and usual bakery stuff as well as use sieve attachment. On rare occasions we use it to make cream. But it's a real workhorse - had ours for years and it outlasts food processors in our experience.
hth

vivaladiva

My breadmaker is a Swan one. To give it it's due it makes a great pizza base:D.
I've been hoping that a Kenwood Chef might free up some kitchen space (BM, food processor and DD is hankering after an ice cream maker - I gather you can get the appropriate bowl etc and not forgetting the sieve attachment - eldest DS doesn't like lumps in anything).

beemuzed

Kenwoods are brilliant! In 37 years I've had two - the first I burnt the motor on after making bread with it 2/3 times a week! (Well, that's what I was told.) The current model has been going since 1987 and is used regularly - tho' I don't tend to use it for breadmaking as we have a Panasonic BM. Very happy with the bread, tho' I do miss proper loaf- shaped bread which is easier to achieve if you use loave tins in the normal oven.

vivaladiva

Sounds like a definite case of personal preference. I guess I'll just have to give it a go.

Dragonlily_2

Ive had my panasonic bread maker for 6 years now and could'nt live without it, I use it 3-4 times a week and set it to cook over night, its lovely to wake up with the smell of fresh bread cooking I used a kenwood chef to make bread before I had my BM but it wasnt as nice, so its the Panasonic for me !!

pink.1970

I like Dragonlily have a Panasonic and wouldnt be without it now, in fact its on now.

I have just used one of those ready made up bread mixes just to see what its like instead of the usual method, lets hope it works ok.

Nicki

I've freecycled my breadmaker (an Electrolux) since I got my Kenwood Chef, because the bread is much much better, and I can make and bake 4 2lb loaves at once in the KC in under an hour and a half and freeze 3, whereas the BM only makes one at a time and the cycle took 3 hours plus. Also I never succeeded in making a decent wholemeal loaf in the whole 2 years I had the BM - every one was an inedible brick - whereas the KC makes lovely light wholemeal bread which everyone loves.

Penelope_Penguin

Bizzimum wrote: »

I've had a breadmaker for ages but hardly use it - don't like the texture - it always seems a bit rubbery. Anyway for various other reasons I had been considering getting a Kenwood Chef. Might I get a better bread result if I made up the dough in this and then baked it 'properly' in the oven?

TIA

I have a Kenwood with a dough hook - have never been able to get to grips with it Have you tried making bread from scratch? It's really theraputic, and no machines required :j

Penny. x

moanymoany

I bought an ancient Kenwood Chef from ebay and I use it every week to make wholemeal bread. It is lovely stuff. I had a breadmaker and didn't get on with it. It is down to personal preference. I don't find a problem with the dough hook and I let the dough knead for 5 minutes. I only knead once and them put the dough into tins lined with baking paper as it is absolutely non stick. I take the paper off the bread as soon as I take it out of the oven to cool on a grid. (out of grill pan!!!!)