On 21/01/2016 6:51 PM, Alan Holbrook wrote:
> Xeno > wrote in
> :
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>> I thought the Breville paddles folded down precisely so they wouldn't
>> leave too large a hole in the loaf.
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> Honestly, I'm not sure what the purpose of the folding paddle is. Every
> recipe I use from the Breville book says to put it upright, and I just
> leave it upright for any other recipes than Breville's...
>
You put it upright when you start. The 'normal' direction of rotation of
the motor keeps the paddle upright and, at the finish of folding, the
motor reverses causing the paddle to 'collapse' flat where it remains
for the baking process. This will leave only a small hole in the end of
the loaf. I haven't used mine for years but it does have that feature
and, IIRC, it used to work most of the time.

The reason I stopped using it was because I couldn't get any degree of
consistency in my loaves. I found it cheaper to buy loaves at the bakery
and they were double the size. The loaves produced by the BBM were quite
small.

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Xeno