I am in love with my Panasonic breadmaker

BritBrat

Someone posted here that they select the next program up from the actual loaf they are making, so if you are making a small loaf select the Large size.

I have been doing that and it seems good to me.

I have only made white or half wholemeal and not any grannary.

Clutterfree

deebee wrote: »

I had a similar disaster last week using a hovis granary breadmix, loaf ended up in the bin, all i can think to do is reduce amount of water added to see if that helps, will try at the weekend again

Mine wasn't a bread mix but I did use Hovis Granary flour.

It IS still edible and as I am the only one who eats granary it's not a huge problem, but they all get proper loaves so I want one too!

Clutterfree

belfastgirl23 wrote: »

Sorry can't help but boy that is one scary loaf :rotfl:

You post made me laugh!
Perhaps having a good camera is not always such a good thing.... :rolleyes:

Clutterfree

BritBrat wrote: »

Someone posted here that they select the next program up from the actual loaf they are making, so if you are making a small loaf select the Large size.

I have been doing that and it seems good to me.

I have only made white or half wholemeal and not any grannary.

With a sandwich loaf I don't have the option to select a size.
Perhaps I shall try to do an "ordinary" loaf that way, though.
Thanks.

Andy_Hamilton

I'm 1 week into my ownership of a 3 year old SD-206 which I bought for £20. It's wonderful.
I have tried ordinary settings but really cannot get over the quality of a loaf from the "sandwich" setting, It's not hard crusty at all.
Using free fresh yeast from ASDA bakery it costs 26p per loaf. Normal dried yeast is like the UHT of the milk world.
I have tried a few different types including adding seeds (5%) and can't believe how good this bread is.
I set mine away at 6pm when I'm cooking tea and it's ready at 10pm. I take it out the bread maker and leave it over night (normally minus the end crust). In the morning I have a perfect loaf ready for the day. Keeping it in one of those "lock and lock" boxes keeps it fresh for a couple of days, I can't tell if it will last longer.

When you have to argue with people that you had made your own bread for your sandwiches means their Jealous.

millie

Can anyone tell me how you use fresh yeast in the breadmaker I would like to try it but do not know what to do with it.

Andy_Hamilton

With my panasonic I just open the lid, throw it in the bottom like the dried yeast, absolutly no problems.

You have to guess the amount a little bit more as it is normally a block which crumbles rather than a powder which your used to.

Your bread will taste just like the bakers you get it from.
Don't be worried at all.

chmmy

Clutterfree, I would try to increase the water a little bit. Mine has come out like that before, and when I felt the dough when it was mixing it was very dense, and high up on the paddle in a tight ball. When you add a splash of water the dough seems to 'relax' and take up a bit more of the shape of the pan. This means that when it finishes mixing, and starts to rise it is already in a good shape. Worth a try anyway lol.

Mardrew

aytch wrote: »

Just wanted to post as yesterday I made my first ever pizza dough - wow, what a hit that was. My daughter (and her boyfriend) polished all three pizza's off in under 10 minutes - and she has asked me to bake more so she can take it for lunch at college.
A question, I want to now have a go and try bread rolls, are they successful?

Thanks

I'm just having a catch-up on this thread and can't see that anyone has answered this.

I make breadrolls all the time in my Panasonic SD253 and they are great. I make them and freeze them and just defrost as many as we need for our pack-ups.

We, too, are pizza fans so much so that I could never bring myself to buy another shop bought pizza. I also did a variation of the focaccia recipe last week and it was so nice my son, a very faddy person, has asked me to make it again tomorrow night. (I did the dough and then rolled it out and sprinkled it with garlic, herbs, Parmesan & Gruyere cheeses and then a light drizzling of oil and it was superb.)

belfastgirl23

Mardrew wrote: »

(I did the dough and then rolled it out and sprinkled it with garlic, herbs, Parmesan & Gruyere cheeses and then a light drizzling of oil and it was superb.)

oh boy does that sound good and I'm not even hungry yet!

I am def going to try this out, thanks!