"Vox Humana" > wrote in message
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> "King's Crown" > wrote in message
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>> "Jenn Ridley" > wrote in message
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>> > Eric Jorgensen > wrote:
>> >> The bread machine is a perfect tool for someone who has no interest
> in
>> >>baking but who insists on having a little round loaf of fresh bread on
>> >>demand, along with the associated baking smells. It'd be great for
>> >>that,
>> >>assuming it works reliably.
>> >
>> > Yanno, I get really annoyed by comments like this. I'm a pretty good
>> > baker, if I say so myself. I *can* make my own bread by hand.
>> >
>> > I have a choice, though. I can make bread by hand twice a week, or I
>> > can do the laundry, or make dinner, or make fresh cookies for the
>> > kids' lunchboxes. I have shoulder problems, and if I choose to make
>> > bread by hand, I cannot do -anything- else that involves shoulder/arm
>> > action for about a day.
>> >
>> > I own a bread machine. I use it 3 or 4 times a week. It makes good
>> > bread, by which I mean that it's consistent from loaf to loaf, and
>> > *MY KIDS LIKE IT* for their sandwiches. This last point is one of the
>> > big reasons I use the machine. It costs a hell of a lot less than the
>> > store bread that they will eat, and I don't have to buy 3-4 loaves and
>> > keep them in the freezer. (and still have to run out to the store on
>> > Sunday so there's bread for Monday's lunchboxes.)
>> >
>> > I'd rather my family have a home-cooked dinner every night and
>> > home-made cookies in their lunches than hand-made bread.
>> > Jenn Ridley :
>>
>> I'm with you Jenn. I have a bread maker that is going on 15 years old.
> It
>> makes great bread. I use the dough cycle more often. I also on occasion
>> make bread completely by hand. OK I use the KitchenAide mixer and then
>> go
>> by hand from then on. A bread machine isn't a magic machine it does take
> a
>> little time to get to know it. To find the recipes with the amounts that
>> work perfectly for your machine. One does have to spend a little time in
>> the beginning of a cycle to make sure the dough is right before one runs
> off
>> to leave it to do what it does best. That 10-15 minutes of time will
>> save
>> me 4 hours once I can leave the machine to make bread. It can really be
>> a
>> time saver.
>
> Time must work different where you live. I can make a batch of dough in
> about 5 minutes in the FP. After that, it rises without any supervision
> for
> a couple of hours. Then it takes about 5 minutes to make up the final
> product. Another hour or so of unsupervised proofing and then into the
> oven. So in total I might spend 15 hands-on minutes baking bread. I wish
> that I could turn that 15 minutes into four "saved" hours, but honestly I
> think you would have to change the rules of physics first.
>
>
4 hours for a baked and cooled loaf of bread. Did you one better... I spent
10 minutes and had a loaf of bread ready to eat without having to change any
laws of physics. Didn't have to fool with making up a final product...
didn't have to preheat an oven and place in oven... didn't have to set a
timer... didn't have to turn out on a cooling rack. Seems the time warp is
happening in your kitchen.
Lynne