Re: New Bread Maker

AuntMame · ‎10-16-2010

You're going to love the bread machine @gloriajean .

I have arthritis and pretty much stopped kneading bread. I bought a bread machine for $5 at a garage sale and love it. Use it nearly every week. If it dies I'm definitely buying another.

Some people use their bread machine to simply mix and knead the dough, then turn it out into a bread pan to rise and bake it in the oven. I'm too lazy to do that. Sometimes my loaves come out with a strange shape from rising and baking in the bread machine, but I don't care about the looks. Still tastes great.

I also make no-knead bread a lot. You can google for a recipe. There are lots of them out there. You simply mix everything in a bowl, cover it, let it rise over night, then dump it into a pre-heated dutch oven to bake. The loaves come out great.

The only downside is that a dutch oven can be pretty heavy to lift in and out of the oven.

Anyhow, have fun with the new appliance. You're going to love it.

wagirl · ‎03-09-2010

@gloriajean ---I've had at least 3 of them---got my first one wwaaaaayyy back in the 90's when they first came out and used that thing forever. Not sure what brand it was, but used it weekly. Not sure what happened to it, but bought another one --Macys brand called Bella for not alot $$ and I loved that thing so much--but didn't use it much and donated it. then during the pandemic--I wanted one again but they were over priced because everyone wanted one--so found a used one at Ebay that I still use today--it's an Oster and I even made jam in it. Have made breads and doughs in it still, altho not as much--trying to reduce my carb load .No have not heard of that brand before---I never made bread by hand in my life---admire those who do ----

Nightowlz · ‎03-11-2010

@gloriajean

We have a Panasonic bread machine. DH makes all our bread, rolls, hamburger buns, pizza dough etc.

He uses the machine to make the dough. He rolls out the dough. He uses a pullman pan with lid so the bread turns out like a loaf you buy from them store.

We don't like the way a bread machine makes a loaf.

The recipes we have tried from this recipe book are really good. It has recipes for 1, 1 1/2 & 2 lb size loaves of bread. You can buy a used one on Ebay or Thrift Books. Don't buy the one with the yellow cover on it. It doesn't have the 2 lb loaf recipes in it.

The bread below is DeDe's Buttermilk bread from book.

Enjoy your new machine. Nothing better than fresh homemade bread.

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Pooky1 · ‎12-23-2015

The first time I used my new bread maker when I had to add fruit I new it was going to beep to let me know but I was right near it and I never Hurd it beep. So after a while it was started heating for the bake portion. I told my wife and she hurt it beep from the room she was in . I said why didn't you tell me. She said well your out there so I figured you were paying attention. I thought I was but I was texting. Now I know its about 50 minutes into the cycle. I tried to make a peanut butter bread but it didn't fully cook so I tried it again and made a few adjustments to the recipe and again iT didn't fully cook. So I gaVe up trying that recipe. It came out of the bread maker cookbook. Gloria Jean good luck when you recipe your new bread maker. I'm excited for you.good luck and enjoy it.

gloriajean · ‎03-10-2010

I've been reading the instructions and it comes with a 1 cup measurement, a teaspoon on one side and a tablespoon on the other side. It also comes with a hook, I have no idea what the hook is for, and the instructions never mention it.

I never had a hook before in my years ago bread machines.

It does have a beep it says for just the kneading. I am wondering if I could put my water, oatmeal, wheat bran, raisins, molasses, oil, flour and yeast in just to knead. Or if that is too heavy to do in it. Of course, in my 2 loaf recipe, I would halve it all.

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@gloriajean wrote:
I've been reading the instructions and it comes with a 1 cup measurement, a teaspoon on one side and a tablespoon on the other side. It also comes with a hook, I have no idea what the hook is for, and the instructions never mention it.
I never had a hook before in my years ago bread machines.
It does have a beep it says for just the kneading. I am wondering if I could put my water, oatmeal, wheat bran, raisins, molasses, oil, flour and yeast in just to knead. Or if that is too heavy to do in it. Of course, in my 2 loaf recipe, I would halve it all.

@gloriajean Your bread maker is made to knead so many cups of flour at once, around 2 cups for a 1 lb. (check book for exact measurements) and 4 for a 2 lb., and then 3-ish for a 1.5 pound loaf. The liquid and yeast proportions are calibrated to cups of flour size. That's what you go by for it to knead dough. Most have a dough cycle.

The hook may be to remove the paddle or paddles if you are going to take out the dough and bake it in a pan in the oven.

gloriajean · ‎03-10-2010

Thank you, Sooner! All makes sense.

Icegoddess · ‎03-19-2010

@Sooner wrote:
@gloriajean wrote:
I've been reading the instructions and it comes with a 1 cup measurement, a teaspoon on one side and a tablespoon on the other side. It also comes with a hook, I have no idea what the hook is for, and the instructions never mention it.
I never had a hook before in my years ago bread machines.
It does have a beep it says for just the kneading. I am wondering if I could put my water, oatmeal, wheat bran, raisins, molasses, oil, flour and yeast in just to knead. Or if that is too heavy to do in it. Of course, in my 2 loaf recipe, I would halve it all.

@gloriajean Your bread maker is made to knead so many cups of flour at once, around 2 cups for a 1 lb. (check book for exact measurements) and 4 for a 2 lb., and then 3-ish for a 1.5 pound loaf. The liquid and yeast proportions are calibrated to cups of flour size. That's what you go by for it to knead dough. Most have a dough cycle.

The hook may be to remove the paddle or paddles if you are going to take out the dough and bake it in a pan in the oven.

Actually, the dough hook is to remove the paddle from baked bread. It's easy to remove it from dough, but you might mess up your baked bread more trying to remove the paddle without the hook. Some people will try and catch the machine before it begins baking and remove the paddle before it bakes so you don't have that big hole in the bottom, only a small hole where the post that holds the paddle sticks up.