"Bruce" > wrote in message
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> On 21/1/2016 06:05 Brooklyn1 wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 02:05:54 -0000 (UTC), Bruce >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On 20/1/2016 12:50 cshenk wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bruce wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>>>
>>>>> On 20/1/2016 10:43 Je�us wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> > On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:09:04 -0800 (PST), Roy >
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > > One of my neighbors makes bread everyday with his inexpensive
>>>>> > > bread-machine. The bread is so good that I have just ordered one
>>>>> > > for myself. Do many of you RFCers use these machines or has the
>>>>> > > interest in them waned? Just curious.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I almost started this very same thread myself.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > When I went camping recently, a friend used her bread maker and we
>>>>> > had nice, fresh bread each morning. For some reason I've always been
>>>>> > highly sceptical of bread makers, preferring to do it by hand.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Last week I borrowed an old, well used (noisy!) bread maker to try
>>>>> > for myself, still being a little resistant to the idea. Well, I'm
>>>>> > not a skeptic any more, and sometime soon I'll be buying my own.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I have the bread maker running right now as I type this.
>>>>> > The time and trouble it saves is well worth it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think it's always better than supermarket bread, but don't you hate
>>>>> the paddle hole in the bread? Or do you remove the paddle after the
>>>>> kneading phase?
>>>>
>>>> I do it in dough mode most of the time and form to small buns or
>>>> loaves.
>>>>
>>>> Besides, the hole is not a problem. Thats where you'd center slice the
>>>> bread anyways.
>>>
>>>You must have a BBM that makes horizontal loaves.
>>
>> What's a "BBM"... a Big Beautiful Milf?
>
> Yes, sorry, I got distracted.
>
>>>I used to have a vertical one, and the hole would go
>>>up one quarter of the (small) loaf or so.
>>
>> So what, it makes little difference when the round slices are cut in
>> half, and that little paddle only protrudes into the loaf 3/4" at
>> most... and with those types of ABMs you can remove the paddle right
>> after the last knead, then there's just a small pock mark in the
>> crust, all gone with the first slice, here it's the last slice.
>
> I remember from my machine, 15 years ago, that it made small loaves
> with a big hole in them. And it was picky. A bit too little liquid or a
> bit too much and the bread didn't come out right. Hand kneading is much
> more tolerant because we're smarter than these machines.

I think you might be surprised with the new ones. I have a Panasonic which
is superb so you might like to give that a try


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