I'm getting a breadmaker!!

Gingham_Ribbon

elvis_bloggs wrote:

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You may laugh, but while our breadmakers are doing the kneeding for us, we can get on with handwashing our laundry, knitting our clothes and heating our (tin) bath water on the fire!

Okay, so that's a lie, I admit. I only do laundry on Mondays!
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tom_and_barbara_good

Can someone explain something to me.

I'm still at the experimental stage and I've been looking for recipes here and there but I'm really confused by these quantities here on the carrs recipe page. As you can see the flour, salt, sugar, milk powder and butter is the same for whatever machine you are using but why is there SUCH a big difference in the water and the yeast?
How can I pick up a recipe book as suggested by C_Q and assume that the recipe will work in every machine if they differ so widely?

Curry_Queen

tom_and_barbara_good wrote:

Can someone explain something to me.

I'm still at the experimental stage and I've been looking for recipes here and there but I'm really confused by these quantities here on the carrs recipe page. As you can see the flour, salt, sugar, milk powder and butter is the same for whatever machine you are using but why is there SUCH a big difference in the water and the yeast?
How can I pick up a recipe book as suggested by C_Q and assume that the recipe will work in every machine if they differ so widely?

I'm afraid it's a case of experimenting Tom, whilst also paying attention to the instructions for your particular BM. I don't know if you recall a recent thread discussing malt loaves whereby I'd followed a recipe posted here by someone else (Zziggi i think) and I made the mistake of adding more water than her recipe stated, but which was correct judging by similar recipes for my own BM, and mine turned out fine but so did hers in her machine

I don't think there are any hard and fast rules and it's a case of becoming confident with your own machine and adapting recipes to suit. For example, the majority of basic recipes for my machine call for 350ml fluid to 500g of flour, so if I see a recipe that doesn't exactly match that then I might alter the quantities slightly, unless I can see where a particular recipe might use moisture from other ingredients if you see what I mean.

It's a case of trial and error I'm afraid and anything that doesn't quite work as expected gets used for something else - savoury bread = breadcrumbs and sweet bread = bread & butter pudding

Gingham_Ribbon

Sorry about the line of nonsense on my last post. Had a cat/toddler incident!

Curry_Queen

Gingham_Ribbon wrote:

Sorry about the line of nonsense on my last post. Had a cat/toddler incident!

Yeah yeah, that's what you tell us :rotfl:

Gingham_Ribbon

Curry_Queen wrote:

Yeah yeah, that's what you tell us :rotfl:

Truth is it's a code. It's a secret recipe for the perfect bread. Okay, that's really lame but I'm in a hurry so it's the best I can come up with!

Happy breadmaking everyone. I have an appointment with a cinema. :j

Str4berr3

carol_a wrote:

It's out of stock again, I'll look later.

Come on Curry's!!! GEt those Panasonic Breadmakers IN!!!!!
Just checked for the forth time today and no hope....
try again tomo.

nicki_2

Do you think it would be safe to put a breadmaker here ? The space is about 11 inches wide but is the only space left near a socket where I won't have to move it every day and trust me it would be used every day!

Also what size would you recommend for a famiy of three who eat alot of bread (toast x 2 people every day, sandwiches x 3 people everyday) ?

Actually can someone give me some idea of what to look for in a breadmaker as it's all new to me but I really want to have nice, fresh homemade bread everyday without having to use the oven every day! Besides which I make a terrible mess when I make it by hand :rotfl:

Gingham_Ribbon

Looks like you'd need to turn it on its side but seems okay to me. It's not like it's next to the taps, just the draining board so I can't see a problem. Anyone else?

What to look for? I guess recommendations within your budget. I had a lovely one for a few years but my kitchen is tiny and when I moved I had nowhere for it so I didn't use it. Now my microwave has broken and I'm not replacing it, I'm putting the new one where that was. (In the dining room.) My friend was handmaking bread and pizza dough so I gave her my breadmaker and I still sample the bread from time to time. Yum!

Ticklemouse

Nicki - the sides do get warm. They are stable, but as long as you are sure DD won't try getting into it or pulling it on herself, it should be OK.

If you can afford it, get a "better" quality one. I have a cheapy cookworks one and also got a new Breadman Ultimate. There is no comparison in the bread the two make. I gave up using the cheapy one fairly soon but the new one is used lots and lots, so it is worth the money IMO.