Topic: Bread makers

[Mrs Gumboot]

Have just started making bread again regularly now I have space in the kitchen. This has all proved too much for my 7 year old bread maker which keeled over last night half way through the knead cycle.

Since we weren't sure when we originally got it that we were going to use it we just got a cheap one from Asda. Now I know we'll use it I might consider getting a better one.

So, any recommendations?

[pumkinlover]

Panasonic

[OllieC]

Hands & oven!

[manicscousers]

panasonic  ;D

[Duke Ellington]

LOL! I got a cheap ASDA one too about four years ago. Ive been waiting for it to break down so that I can buy a new more expensive one....but it keeps on baking!!
ASDA electricals at the time has such a bad reputation that I thought I would be buying a new one in a matter of weeks but thought it would be a good way of seeing if a bread machine would be used or if it would live in a cupboard and never come out!!. When I bought it it cost £18.99 on special offer ~Bargain considering it is still going strong!!

Duke :)

[tomatoada]

Have a double whisky before you check the price.


Panasonic.

[Lottiman]

Morphy richards

[Twoflower]

ok i'll third the panasonic, and it's my second one. There are five of us and i never buy bread  :)

[Jill]

4th for Panasonic

[knottygal]

Panasonic here too - well worth the scary price! (Pixmania has 'em for £68 inc vat!) think postage bout a fiver...

[macmac]

6th for Panasonic.
Although of late I've started making 4 loaves a time by hand with mixed results .I have to say I'm getting better and I think the texture is much nicer than machine.

[dtw]

I find that hand made bread is less 'cakey' than machine bread.

[macmac]

I find that hand made bread is less 'cakey' than machine bread.

absolutely

[Mrs Gumboot]

Am planning to hint at my mum that it's nearly christmas  ;D

We had guests coming so I just left the nearly mixed dough in the pan & only remembered the next morning. Banged the dough mix in the oven & it was much lighter than anything done completely in the machine (although it had been rising for about 18 hours!). Did consider doing them all in the future by hand but little one won't let me in the kitchen when I need to so i think we're going to have to get another machine.

Cheers folks!

[artichoke]

"Hands and oven!"

My father started baking it in the 1940s, I took over in the 1960s, my friends (many), sisters(4) and husbands (2) have done the same after minor persuasion, I have unwillingly, on request, given 2 daughters and their friends bread machines, and they have all given up on them eventually.

Made 30 rolls and 4 loaves yesterday for a party. No trouble, just like making a salad or frying bacon. Mix it, leave it to rise, put it in tins, cook  it, eat it.

[Trevor_D]

Agree. Why use a machine? The washing-up bit takes longer than the rest of it.

I've always done it by hand. So has my son. So have my grand-daughters - aged 10 & 7 - and all of my brother-in-law's family (3 generations). Easy-peasy!!

[manicscousers]

can't knead, arthritic hands, shoulder and neck, hence the machine, I do make dough in there for rolls though  :)

[Trevor_D]

In that case, use the machine to do the mixing, but let it rise manually and bake it in the oven. (That's what a 79-year-old friend of mine does.)

[manicscousers]

still have to knock it back, plus, i can leave mine to bake a fresh loaf during the night, I used to make all my bread by hand, my machine bread is fine  :)

[picman]

Morphy Richards, on our 2nd, latest one is quieter (Important if over night) , the pans do give up if used a lot , but their after-sales service is marvellous. I think its the flour that makes the difference , try Wessex Mill ( Clarks of Wantage ) the Wessex Cober is great.