How many slices?

trying-very-trying

I'm just wondering, how many slices do you all get from a loaf of homemade bread?

angie_loves_veg

My panny makes a loaf that is 19cm long. If I am being good (as opposed to cutting fab doorstops to slather in butter and dunk in bread), or if it is for sandwiches I will expect to get 15 slices + 2 crusts from each loaf - s'pose it depends on your cutting skills!

hope that helps

trying-very-trying

If I can leave it until it's cold and nobody else touches it, I can usually get about 15 slices, but I just wondered how much everybody else is getting, because it means that I will have to make 2 loaves a day, if I want to go all homemeade.

Hardup_Hester

Unfortunately my HM bread never gets chance to get cold so I usually only ger 4 or 6 slices out of it!!!

trying-very-trying

Hardup_Hester wrote: »

Unfortunately my HM bread never gets chance to get cold so I usually only ger 4 or 6 slices out of it!!!

Yeah, that's my problem, but I'm thinking if I make at least one loaf during the day before anybody comes in how far will it go.

Ishtar

Not hugely brilliant at the slicing, but manage to get 12 slices out of a loaf. That is, of course if I hide it from OH - we cut at different angles despite both of us being left handed...

D.

Stephen_Leak

I reckon that the secret of good fresh bread slicing is the right tool for the job. For a good compromise of quality and price, my personal recommendation is the Victorinox Fibrox handled 5.2533.21 one.

As for technique, especially with soft, new bread, use the whole length of the blade and let the knife do the cutting, ie. don't force it.

thriftlady_2

I get at least 20 from my loaves. These are 2 lb loaf tins. I use 3 standard size and 1 that is shallower but a bit longer so I get more, smaller slices from that one.

I make a 3 loaf batch in 4 tins. I find that we eat a slice of bread at a time and the size of the slice is immaterial, so if they were taller we'd eat more bread IYSWIM.

I can cut quite thin slices because the loaves aren't very tall and because I generally make wholemeal the loaves are less squashy. The size and shape of the loaves was the thing I hated most about the breadmaker.

purpleivy

I think about 15 from my panasonic. I try to leave as long as poss before I have to slice. I use a kenwood (OLD!) slicer

culpepper

I have the morphy richards and a manual slicer.I get about 15 and the two end heels.
If you wait about 20 minutes after getting it out of the tin,it should have settled down enough to slice. Day old bread always slices more evenly .
For a non machine made homemade loaf,I can get about 20 slices from a 2lb tin but they are not as tall.

fizzel81

my new machine (brough by a friend as an xmas present) makes 500g and 750g loafs (which is a great size for me and the boys) i can get about 8 slices if im not doing doorsteps and 2 crusts from that (and the crusts get eaten with jam, its my fave bit of the bread)