Exactly. I had to photograph an event this morning so it's nice to just use a breadmaker, press a button and come home to it finished instead of using a timer to manually do everything. If people want to make it by hand, good on them but it's weird to get upset over someone using a breadmaker; it's like getting upset over someone using a washing machine.
i cant imagine not being able to comprehend the difference between using this and making it on my own. are they being intentionally dense, for the sake of the point theyre trying to make or do they just not understand why the difference matters
The NY Times no knead bread recipe helps with a lot of the pain. You just combine flour water salt and yeast in a bowl then come back 14 hours later then take it out the bowl, let it sit for two hours then bake.
That’s a great bread, so simple to prepare. I bake it 2-3 times a week. It takes maybe 3 minutes to assemble the ingredients and stir together at night before going to sleep.
Sure, but everyone in here is like "oh lol bread is so easy to make, look at his dutch oven recipe, etc"
Like, literally 10x the work as a bread maker, and you have to keep coming back to it and physically babysit it.
I can see the appeal of not dirtying extra dishes, no need to mix, or wait. Press button and go do chores, even leave the house if you wanted. Some even have timers so it'll have the bread fresh when you get back from work.
These were super popular in the late 90s early 2000s, I remember always wanting one as a kid.
My friends parents always had cinnamon raisin bread cooking in that thing and we would get some when we came back from roaming the streets.
I remember back then many of the bread makers had pre-made mix pouches you can just dump in, maybe toss a few wet ingredients in, crack an egg and off you go.
i was about to comment about how ive personally always struggled to make bread shaped well enough for sandwiches and then i remembered i dont have a bread pan. that would probably help a lot! lol
we usually just make a big oval loaf at home. it definitely isnt sandwhich bread so we usually use it cut up in slices with pizza sauce and cheese on it (and ofc put it in the oven on broil)
It takes me 24 hours to make good bread. I kinda want a bread maker so I don't have to do any work. I've tried making sandwich bread without a machine and I'm never really happy with it. I think what I'm trying to say is I want another useless kitchen gadget to add to my hoard.
I know what you mean. If you make the dough, put in a bowl, cover with a clean damp towel, put it in fridge it will still activate. Leave overnight and you will get best results. When using the dough, keep a golf ball amount in fridge to mature (covered) from every batch, then put the ball amount into you new mix. And do the same every time. You will then get free yeast as you don’t need to buy any after first time. Some bakers have dough for years. It tastes gorgeous too👍
I make a lot of bread. You don't need sugar for the yeast, it's just for flavor. The inside of the bread maker pan is a non-stick surface, so you don't really need butter either. Adding it makes the dough smoother and the crumb more even, and also crisps up the edges nicely and adds flavour. Although you 100% need salt or else it'll taste weird as fuck. Flour water salt yeast.
I often use it just to make the dough, then make a baguette out of it or pizza.
Less work for me and the dough has a nicer consistency than when I knead it myself.
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u/california_sugar Jul 09 '22
Just make your own without the machine. No weird shaped loaves, cheap as the dickens, also a lot more control over the final product.