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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: sabrina on January 29, 2014, 08:16:31 pm
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OH bought a bread maker today and we have just had our first taste of warm bread with butter and jam. To die for !! I use to make by hand but now not able to with joint problems in my fingers. As some shop bought bread now has soya which I cannot have we decided on the bread maker. Wonderful.
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Fresh bread is just one of life's real pleasures. The simple things are always the best!
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Yum! My mouth is watering now.
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my oH bought me a bread maker for xmas a year ago and now we never buy shop bought bread. you can also make dough, cakes, jam and frui compotes in my model. Love it!
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The ONE and ONLY kitchen gadget my OH is on good terms with.... and has been since we married more than 13 years ago. We are on (at least) our third one though, after a while of (nearly) daily use we find something usually goes...
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We've had one for years - we have one that has up to 13 hours delay program- put the ingredients in before bedtime, get up to a freshly baked loaf for breakfast, and the house smells great...
Wouldn't be without a bread-maker - it's lovely for making dough to shape for rolls, italian breads, pittas, pizza bases, french style dough for baguettes, naan bread - and Steve wonders why we're getting fat!
Sue
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I have to move the bread machine into a warm room, otherwise it doesn't get hot enough to prove! I do love fresh bread though!
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Sabrina what bread maker did you get ? And what recipe did you use?
I love fresh bread :yum:
I'm getting really sick of the stale stuff that costs an arm & a leg.
I've tried on many occasions to make bread by hand with varying degrees of house brick as my result :thumbsup: . I've thought about it before but haven't got a clue what a good bread maker looks like :-[ . The other half had one before we got together but he said it was crap. So I've always stayed away from them. If someone could point me in the right direction that would be fantastic. :excited:
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Bert - don't get any other breadmaker than a Panasonic. They are streets ahead of the rest. Had one for over 14 years and have recently replaced it with the same but updated model. The difference in the recipes is interesting though...much less salt and much less sugar, and none of the recipes include powdered milk, which pretty much all the old ones did. Weird - but healthier! Mine is the SD-2501
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I bought the panasonic SD-2501 also, on recommendations from here when my ancient secondhand breadmaker went kaput. It is fabulous and i now get perfect results everytime. I used to get too heavy bread with hand kneading alone in spite of kneading until it felt silky (and as much as my hands would take). Now everything is well risen . I use it a lot for dough and shape rolls/baugettes etc. I can make small amounts (and also with larger amounts freeze some - I like to freeze some part baked rolls so I can quickly have fresh baked whenever i want) and so now don't get any wasted bread. So quick and easy and less hassle than having to drive to the shops!
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Helen
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OH bought the Panasonic SD-2501. he did a lot of research before buying. We just used the recipe for the basic loaf but it can do all sorts of thing.
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OH bought the Panasonic SD-2501. he did a lot of research before buying. We just used the recipe for the basic loaf but it can do all sorts of thing.
Wait until you try the Panetonne bread recipe! :hungry: :hungry: (we need a really really fat smiley!)
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Definitely Panasonic for me too. We've had ours for yonks and it's still going strong :fc: Previously had a Henry (Hinari) but it got a hole in its bucket.
I still have the old recipes but I use only 1/2 teasp salt and 1 teasp sugar per XL loaf. What does the new recipe recommend for 21 oz flour?
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Definitely Panasonic for me too. We've had ours for yonks and it's still going strong :fc: Previously had a Henry (Hinari) but it got a hole in its bucket.
I still have the old recipes but I use only 1/2 teasp salt and 1 teasp sugar per XL loaf. What does the new recipe recommend for 21 oz flour?
I only work in metric, but 500g is teaspoon and a quarter salt, teaspoon and a half sugar. The old recipe was tablespoon and a half of sugar!
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i also second the panasonic, thats what i have. its my first breadmaker so nothing to compare it to but it has been fab everytime so far!
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Wow that is a unanimous vote for the Panasonic :trophy: :thumbsup:
Thanks for that
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Bread makers one of the best kitchen gadgets ever..... especially if you have one with a timer, we are on our third! Confused me when our lastest one went from using butter to oil! I bought some mini hovis tins of ebay and make the dough then put it into the tins, let it rise, bake and mini rolls to go with soup. Or I make mini garlic bread. Pizza dough is also a firm favourite. By default from a relative we got a bread / meat slicer, so I tend to use the breadmaker all day can do about 4 to 6 loaves, then OH slices them on the machine, they get bagged up and into the freezer. The reason behind this is because, the fresh bread is gorgeous, but is also a weight putter on er! :-[ Especially when 'I'll just have another slice...'
Invest in a good bread making recipe book and go for it.
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Mine's a Morphy Richards just to be different. I've no complaints about it except for the gluten free bread. The book suggests a certain make of flour which I can't get but I can't see that it would make any difference so long as it was bread flour which I do use.
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Ah, so it IS (theoretically) possible to make gluten free bread in a breadmaker? I love my Panasonic but I appear to have become gluten intolerant. :gloomy:
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Yes, you can. You just need a gluten free recipe and you can find one on the back of Doves Farm gluten free bread flour.
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Me too I had the Panasonic 2501 for a year now, and wondering why I didn't get one sooner!
I like making bread by hand but then only egt arund it twice a year, and with the machine I make a loaf every other day and it's perfect.
I particularly like dark rye bread, which is impossible to find now that we moved out here (and was hideously expensive to buy in London) and that particular Panasonic model is one of the few that do rye bread!
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I have a Prima breadmaker , and use it all the time .
I make bread , cakes and have made jam in it .
I have made rye bread in mine , don't they all ?
I do by a sliced hovis best of both for toast , but i mainly buy Wrights bread mix . I get the mixed grain one ; wheat flour , kibbled malted wheat , oat flakes , rye flour , malt flour ( wheat and barley ) , golden linseed , kibbled rye , poppy seed , browm linseed , sunflower seed , chickpea flour , pearlbarley flakes .
I make one just as is from the packet and one with added dried fruit and honey .
I also make bread from 'the breadmake bible' by Karen Saunders .
Breadmakers are fantastic , and i will hate it when i go off system completely .
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I love ours. Sometimes I forget and have to buy bread :'( - it's horrible. Apart from the odd plain loaf and well-fired roll :thumbsup:
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We have 2 both Panasonic can't fault them :thumbsup:
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Yes, you can. You just need a gluten free recipe and you can find one on the back of Doves Farm gluten free bread flour.
Great, I will look for it and try it.
I bought a teeny weeny gluten-free loaf yesterday to try for £4.20 and the best I can say is that toasted and with butter and baked beans on it was acceptable.
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Yes, it's not like proper bread at all, is it?
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Thank you for this thread, I have just ordered myself a bread maker, looking forward to some nice fresh bread now. :thumbsup:
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:thumbsup: You'll love it.
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:thumbsup: You'll love it.
But....will my waistline :roflanim:
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Trust me your waist line could be in danger..... Slice all the bread and put it into the freezer less the amount of slices you need. :-J Do not be tempted to cover in glorious, delicious, butter, melting on your warm slice of bread which as a 'treat' you have cut table thick. :thinking: Slice it weigh it, think twice, think minute on the lips lifetime on the hips, rest into the freezer pronto! :roflanim:
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So that's where I went wrong. ;D
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So that's where I went wrong. ;D
Lol ;D Me to but I learnt the error of my bread making ways. ::) Sort of....
The bread maker challenge:
On a 2lb loaf how many slices can you get from it? And how?
E.g I can get 14 good slices with my electric knife, 10 assorted sizes slicing free hand :D And 25 wafer thin if I used the meat / bread slices (which are useless for sandwiches :roflanim:
What about you?
Tried to load a photograph as evidence, but the image is too large and no idea how to make it smaller. :eyelashes:
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So do you think 6 slices means they are too big?
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Definitely Panasonic for me too. We've had ours for yonks and it's still going strong :fc: Previously had a Henry (Hinari) but it got a hole in its bucket.
I still have the old recipes but I use only 1/2 teasp salt and 1 teasp sugar per XL loaf. What does the new recipe recommend for 21 oz flour?
I tempted fate when I wrote that. My trusty ancient Panasonic presented us with a brick yesterday morning - the motor had gone. My new one arrived today - amazing service from Co-op. I got the Panasonic SD-ZB 2502 BXC which has diamond non-stick - woohoo 8) and a stainless steel body - my last one was white.
I just put my first loaf to bake in it.........hope it turns out ok :hungry:
It does include a recipe for gluten free bread although I make normal bread with 70% wholemeal flour/30% white or grainy.
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It had to go at some time, FW. Glad you managed to get a replacement so quickly. How was the bread?
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I tempted fate when I wrote that. My trusty ancient Panasonic presented us with a brick yesterday morning - the motor had gone. My new one arrived today - amazing service from Co-op. I got the Panasonic SD-ZB 2502 BXC which has diamond non-stick - woohoo 8) and a stainless steel body - my last one was white.
I just put my first loaf to bake in it.........hope it turns out ok :hungry:
It does include a recipe for gluten free bread although I make normal bread with 70% wholemeal flour/30% white or grainy.
Mine hasn't arrived yet :-\ But I think that's the same one, dying to get started, I suppose I could go out and buy the flour etc.
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It had to go at some time, FW. Glad you managed to get a replacement so quickly. How was the bread?
Scrumpshlicious :yum: but incredibly tall. Think I'll just revert to my old recipe amounts. I can make some more tonight as we've eaten all that one (imagine a fat icon ;D) The hens and pet Soays did get their little share too.
Daisy's mum - hope yours arrives soon :fc:
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Go and buy the flour, Daisy's mum :) Then your ready to rock and roll. Plus the brand new packet of butter..... :yum:
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Don't forget the yeast.
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I think I must be the only person who doesn't like bread from the breadmaker, and yes it is a Panasonic
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Well after reading the beginning of this thread I have bought a Panasonic. I have been up since half five waiting for it to come out! I set the timer for 8am to make sure I was up (i sometimes have a lie in til 8 on a Saturday. :innocent:
1 hour 27 mins to go :fc:
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I think I must be the only person who doesn't like bread from the breadmaker, and yes it is a Panasonic
Oh no you're not. I really don't like bread from the bread maker either. I make all mine by hand. It's good excercise and tastes so much better and is less dense.
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Usually you need to play around with the proportions in the breadmaker a bit before settling on the best results. The amount of water has to be measured very accurately, much more so than with handmade loaves. I made my bread by hand for very many years but initially switched to a breadmaker because my house is too cold to find somewhere good to set it to rise.
I have also played around with the proportions of flours used and the make of the flour. My current favourite is 70% Marriages wholemeal plus 30% Wessex six seeded. The little bit of whiteish flour helps the texture, but it doesn't need to be as much as 30%. I often replace an ounce of the white with Einkhorn which gives a nice nutty flavour - any more and the result is too dense.
Using 1/8 teasp of Vit C powder helps too, but not for the purist I suppose.
How's the loaf Herdygirl?
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Nothing beats the smell of bread baking when you wake up on a cold winter's morning. :) hey herdy girl???
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First loaf cooling now, have to say it doesn't look to impressive here's hoping it tastes ok! :fc:
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I worked out that it costs us about 40p per loaf (including electricity). I usually put one on when I get back from work on Friday evening for the weekend and then slice that up and freeze it on Sunday evening before I leave for work for OH to have it as toast for the rest of the week.
CONFESSION: I never wash the tin…… no consequences yet :fc: :excited:
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Ok
The first one has been eaten! :yum: just doing another one now .
I am another usual hand maker, that finds it hard to find a warm place for bread to rise in the winter, so will use this lovely, beautiful machine :love: :love: :love: >> me stroking my new friend
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OH bought a bread maker today and we have just had our first taste of warm bread with butter and jam. To die for !! I use to make by hand but now not able to with joint problems in my fingers. As some shop bought bread now has soya which I cannot have we decided on the bread maker. Wonderful.
Yummy stuff ..watch the waist line grow .
We ended up hiding our bread maker away in the back of the corner of the corner cupboard under the work tops .. we rarely eat bread these days thankfully . But we do eat the odd bagel every now & then ....... you know those with the less fattening centres . :roflanim:
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Clodopper what you like ! :-J
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I probably ought to just eat the centres. :(
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I probably ought to just eat the centres. :(
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Well, I have done the white and also the 70% brown which we both love. the fruit loaf is just lovely. I am being good and not eating any more than I used to. Once we found soya in shop bought bread that was the finish as I cannot have soya. I don't find it too dense at all.
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Fruit loaf is very good as well. :)
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Haven't bought bread for a week now :thumbsup: Does anyone have the fruit loaf recipe as I fancy some of that! :excited:
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Sabrina - one more tip...cut up or photocopy the users manual recipes and laminate them and leave next to the breadmaker! You'll thank me :eyelashes: My old one was so grubby and torn, so when I bought my new one I learned my lesson.
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I bought my OH a Panasonic for her birthday. She has made me a lovely set of tractor weights for my Case 695.
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I bought my OH a Panasonic for her birthday. She has made me a lovely set of tractor weights for my Case 695.
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Mixed Fruit Bread:
Large Loaf
Water 1 and 1/8 cup
Skimmed Milk Powder 2 and half tbsp
Butter 2 and half tbsp
sugar 1/4 cup
salt 1 and 1/4 tsp
strong white flour 3 cups
nutmeg 3/4 tsp
dry yeast 1 and 1/4 tsp
mixed fruit 1/2 cup **
Setting, you would have to check your machine instructions for something like 'speciality or cake' bake.
Notes: **add the mixed fruit approximately 30 minutes into the cycle when the beeper goes off (otherwise the mixed fruit will get completely chopped up)
You may have to make a couple of duffer loafs until you work out the right setting. :o
Enjoy, warm with butter... yum yum :P
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Thanks for that, will give it a go this weekend
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How is everybodies waist lines doing????? ;D Pizza tonight with dough from the bread maker.... yum yum
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Waistline is holding it's own. :thumbsup:
I haven't bought a loaf since I got it.
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Yes, you can. You just need a gluten free recipe and you can find one on the back of Doves Farm gluten free bread flour.
I tried this and I was really pleased with the results. In fact, I tried some gluteny garlic bread the other day (to test whether it really made me ill - it did) and it was rubbish. The bread itself was tasteless and I found I don't like the texture any more. The gluten free bread with all its eggs and milk and oil is much more like actual food and not just calorific air. Very filling. I make a loaf, cut it up and freeze the slices to eat when I want. And it means I have got somewhere to put my marmalade.
Happy again! Thanks again for that ace tip :thumbsup:
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You're welcome. :D