I am in love with my Panasonic breadmaker

purpleivy

Can someone please send a chap round so that I can feel what firm flesh is like? LOL

Swan_2

I did try to think of a better way to put it, honest


EDIT ... actually, it feels more like a firm natural breast then say, hard muscle ... I'm digging a hole for myself here, aren't I

pigpen

Swan.. I do the same.. I also.. start mine on one cycle to mix the dough thoroughly and them stop it and put it on a different cycle to cook.. works for us!

My banana loaves always come out like a doorstop and my chocolate bread takes over the planet it grows so huge.. I also sling raisins/cranberries or other dried fruits in and serve it with custard!

I'd be tempted to mix it in the BM and try cooking it in the oven..

Swan_2

pigpen wrote: »

Swan.. I do the same.. I also.. start mine on one cycle to mix the dough thoroughly and them stop it and put it on a different cycle to cook.. works for us!

My banana loaves always come out like a doorstop and my chocolate bread takes over the planet it grows so huge.. I also sling raisins/cranberries or other dried fruits in and serve it with custard!
I'd be tempted to mix it in the BM and try cooking it in the oven..

& I thought it was only me!

I'm most likely to do the stopping & re-starting with very dense wholemeal mixes, gives it a bit of extra lift

bananas, now there's a thing, I've got a glut of over-ripe ones so that was a very timely reminder :T

Bargain_Rzl

Just won one on ebay for under £70 inc P£P :j :j :j :j :j :j

(Can you tell I'm a wee bit excited )

There are 2 more ending tomorrow if anybody is interested - and I'm not watching them any more

Suesy_Sue

Bargain Rzl, Welcome to the club!! I love my Panny, am telling all my friends to get one, they are getting fed up with me now! Let us know how your first loaf goes. I still remember mine!

Clutterfree

Someone on the Grabbit board said Hovis flours are half price at Asda.
No good for me but may help someone else.

deebee

and Asda used to do the Hovis bread mix at 2 for £1, don't know if that offer is still on, but it included white, granary and wholemeal

BigMummaF

I can fully appreciate why people are so passionate about their Panny now:D

I've made all sizes of basic white, had one experiment with a wholemeal & did my first rapid basic white yesterday afternoon. I'd like to try other recipes, but think I need the offspring to move out for a couple of days so I get the chance:p

Akmost had a revolution on my hands when I asked them about going back to shop-bought, so it must be doing something right. Only niggle thus far has been the tuna & cue filling made the bread soggy, but it still got eaten so couldn't have been that bad..but perhaps I'll butter both bits next time.

Meant to say thanks for the info on Asda, but unfortunately our closest stores are still an hour's drive away dang-nabbit!

Pitlanepiglet

I've become a member of the Panny lovers club! :T I bought my SD255 on Thursday, made a simple white loaf overnight which was great, I've now been to Asda and stocked up on flour and mixed fruit and I now have a fruit loaf in and cooking at the moment! I had to do the white version as I couldn't bear to wait five hours for the wholemeal one!

One question about the Panisonic (or maybe breadmakers in general?), why is the first section of the time a "rest"? I'm worried I should have mixed stuff together rather than just bunging it in if it was going to rest? Maybe my old BM did this but I only ever used it overnight on timer!

For flour I've taken advice from MSE and used a mix of bread flour and cheap ordinary flour, if you go to Asda though look out for the 55p Doves Farm Organic Wholemeal in the organic flour section - well don't at Cribs Causeway, Bristol as I've just bought the last four!