Homemade Bread

[Jcrawf]

No-knead Bread

I used the same method as Steve, using a recipe (No Knead Bread) I found on UTube. Mine turned out crusty and looked like the finished product shown in the Utube video, but had about as much flavor as a stale unsalted cracker. It was edible, but needed a lot of butter and jam to make it palatable. I'm going to try it again one day using more yeast and a few tablespoons of sugar.

I have a Breadman Pro machine that I bought from Amazon. I use it to mix dough for rolls, and to make oatmeal bread. Works fine as long as I measure the ingredients accurately.

[cabinetman]

Ours is a "Breadman" which we got in '95. As I recall, breadmachines were all the rage about that time and I think our son gave this one to us for Christmas. It has a little window in the top lid and you have to add the yeast to it. The bread pan is like a little bucket that sits down on the motor shaft.

In the beginning we used it quite a bit, but as mentioned earlier, the results were always mixed, with usually the center of the loaf not being properly baked.

Perhaps its time we took a look at a modern appliance!

Do you folks use those pre-mixed products or do you work from scratch with a recipe?

CWS

That sounds like the same machine we have. LOML makes all kinds of bread from scratch...no premix. She makes killer cinnamon buns by making the dough in the machine, and when it rises, removes it to go to the oven. Works great.
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[DaveS]

We use our bread machine all the time, but only for mixing the dough.

We always bake it in our regular oven.

[L. D. Jeffries]

We have had bread machines for the past 15 yrs., actually I think we are on our 5th or 6th machine..being used at least once a week they do wear out after a while. Agreed-if you use the machine for the whole cycle the bread can turn out not too good. My wife uses it to mix and go thru the first rising. Then she turns it out, shapes it, puts it in stoneware bread pans, lets it rise the second time and then bakes it. Works about 99.9 c/o of the time. Weather can play tricks on the yeast however. Grandma's trick-rise it second time on open oven door with oven on just lowest temp. Stoneware bowls make interesting shaped bread, or shape it into a "rope" and bake on pizza stone! Nothing smells better than fresh baked bread; except "fresh sawdust!"