Bread makers Y/N

[mauvais]

Mmmmmmmmm bread. Shgudio! Fluffy and lovely. Yum.

 

[Boycey]

50 mins to go! WOOOOO WHERE MY BREAD AT!!!

i take you're now fat bellied after accidentally a whole loaf?

 

[mauvais]

A whole loaf!

 

[Boycey]

 

[RubyBlue]

Mmmmmmmmm bread. Shgudio! Fluffy and lovely. Yum.

Thanks for your post - it was 30 pounds cheaper then Argos

 

[ringo]

I don't use mine at all, does anyone want it? It was someone else's wedding present & they never used it. I've onl used it a handful of times, I prefer to make bread from those packets of pre-mixed flour/yeast/grain etc.

I'll check the make in a mo, probably shouldn't move the fryer to get to it with the baby in the other hand.

 

[mauvais]

Thanks for your post - it was 30 pounds cheaper then Argos

No probs! Always Google the model number or use Google Shopping.

 

[RubyBlue]

I don't use mine at all, does anyone want it? It was someone else's wedding present & they never used it. I've onl used it a handful of times, I prefer to make bread from those packets of pre-mixed flour/yeast/grain etc.

I'll check the make in a mo, probably shouldn't move the fryer to get to it with the baby in the other hand.

Please, please don't tell me that you're getting rid of something that I've just spent 90 pounds on

 

[ringo]

Please, please don't tell me that you're getting rid of something that I've just spent 90 pounds on

Hope not. It's a Miller's Choice MC100. Google suggests its a John Lewis model made by Prima.

Free to collect if anyone wants it.

 

[lizzieloo]

Hope not. It's a Miller's Choice MC100. Google suggests its a John Lewis model made by Prima.

Free to collect if anyone wants it.

Put it in here

 

[ringo]

I'd rather offer it to a Suburbanite first.

 

[RubyBlue]

Hope not. It's a Miller's Choice MC100. Google suggests its a John Lewis model made by Prima.

Free to collect if anyone wants it.

I'm annoyed now - where do you live? After all my agonising on if I should buy one you pipped up just after I placed my order

 

[Ted Striker]

It's been on my list of things to to save for for a while now. Can't recommend them enough

The smell, and nomming the fresh cooked stuff was definitely one of the things I used to miss when I left my mums house.

Slices the size of "oh, I seem to have cut this wonky to end up with a big fat bit to shove right in" ftw

 

[Boycey]

I'm annoyed now - where do you live? After all my agonising on if I should buy one you pipped up just after I placed my order

if you've bought a panasonic you won't regret having forked out for it

 

[madamv]

I'm annoyed now - where do you live? After all my agonising on if I should buy one you pipped up just after I placed my order

Shes gonna come round and smack you up ringo....

 

[Guineveretoo]

I bought my daughter a breadmaker for Christmas last year or the year before, and she loves it!

I have borrowed it a few times, and I can understand why.

I bought that Panasonic above, after doing some research, and because my daughter loves seeded bread.

I want a breadmaker!

If no-one else wants the one which is being given away, can I have it?

 

[RubyBlue]

Shes gonna come round and smack you up ringo....

 

[RubyBlue]

I bought that Panasonic above, after doing some research, and because my daughter loves seeded bread.

I want a breadmaker!

Seems like that Panasonic is a popular choice - I'm excited now - can't wait till it arrives

 

[liquidlunch]

best thing i have bought in donkeys years but i find an electric knife makes cutting the soft loaves much easier.
nothing beats waking up to the smell of fresh bread in the mornings

 

[Guineveretoo]

Seems like that Panasonic is a popular choice - I'm excited now - can't wait till it arrives

I certainly think it was a good buy, so long as you like fancy bread. If you just want a straightforward loaf, it's probably not worth paying the bit extra.

 

[danny la rouge]

I made a date and walnut loaf for my visitors yesterday. It went down very well.

 

[gentlegreen]

I certainly think it was a good buy, so long as you like fancy bread. If you just want a straightforward loaf, it's probably not worth paying the bit extra.

Beyond special features like the raisin dispenser, the next aspect is reliability - whether you buy one Panasonic or several cheap machines.The pan bearings do wear out.

 

[ringo]

If no-one else wants the one which is being given away, can I have it?

Yup, drop me a PM to arrange collection, glad it will go to to someone who will use it.

As long as RubyBlue hasn't duffed me up already........

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I made a cheese and olive loaf yesterday. Not in a bread maker though. Yes it's getting a it cold isn't it, making things difficult to rise. Luckily I have a double oven so I can put the bread in the top oven while the lower one heats up. The warmth from the lower oven seems to be just enough to make the bread rise a good size in only the time it takes to get to the right temperature.

 

[HAPPY CHEF]

They're great for mixing kneading,and proving but I don't think they cook very well so I wouldn't get one,I know someone who uses there's for all of the above then cooks it in the oven.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

They're great for mixing kneading,and proving but I don't think they cook very well so I wouldn't get one,I know someone who uses there's for all of the above then cooks it in the oven.

Why aren't they any good at cooking? What is better about an oven?

 

[RubyBlue]

It just occurred to me - does anyone know if breadmakers are actually economical to run? Or do they use lots of electricity?

 

[gentlegreen]

It just occurred to me - does anyone know if breadmakers are actually economical to run? Or do they use lots of electricity?

Small ovens just big enough for the pan....

Microwaves are more efficient but they make rubbish bread.

 

[Epona]

Humm, my house is cold but I have not come across this problem yet. Maybe it's not chilly enough. I have been putting mine in the oven dish, wrapping it in a blanket and bunging it on the top of my fridge (in a cupboard under the stairs). I don't do more than a minutes kneading and I wouldn't even call what I do kneading actually. Maybe it's because I mix all the ingredients in an electric mixer thing.

I guess we will see pretty soon as the cold weather sets in how much my bread starts failing.

How cold is cold? My parents' place never warmed up even in summer (which was sometimes a blessing!) - victorian built farm worker's cottage with no insulation and tiny windows (big larder for cold storage though, it wasn't all bad!) - and in winter was only a couple of degrees warmer than outside, icicles forming on the ceiling type cold, but it's draughts that pose a real problem when getting dough to rise. The only heating we had when I was a kid was a gas fire in the sitting room - the original range and wood fired water boiler that might have sustained victorian bread-making activities had been ripped out by the council before we moved in and not replaced, the only heating we had was a gas fire in the sitting room or when it dropped below freezing a paraffin heater in the hallway upstairs at night (which required a window slightly open for ventilation) - and even trying to prove dough in the sitting room where there was heat, every time anyone went in or out of the room the draught caused the temperature to drop suddenly and stay cold for 20 minutes before starting to warm up again, during which time bread would fail.

There's a reason they couldn't successfully make it then (despite trying desperately many many times, we were very poor and could have saved money making bread), but can successfully make it now, and that difference is a stable ambient temperature that allows yeast to be active.

My main memory of childhood is of being absolutely fucking freezing most of the time

 

[Ms T]

I have a Panasonic and only use it occasionally. The truth is that bread made by hand (I like sourdough) is way nicer. It does require a bit of forward planning, though, and you need to look after your starter. I do like the seeded wholemeal that I make in the breadmaker but we don't eat a huge amount of bread so the one sourdough loaf I make a week is usually enough.