I have purchased exactly one loaf of bread this year. The fact that it’s May is kind of amazing for this…. and it’s not as if I haven’t eaten any bread – I love the stuff. I’ve been making it.<\/p>\n
Relatively recently, I bought a bread machine. It’s a breville and was only a couple of hundred bucks. The idea behind this was to still have bread when I was feeling too lazy to do everything by hand (or was time pressed).<\/p>\n
I have discovered the following:<\/p>\n
The 750g loaf is a bit small, the kneading can end up missing some ingredients in the corners of the bread machine. the 1kg loaf is fine, the 1.25 is freaking huge.<\/p>\n
The area of the bread (as in how big a slice is) is much larger than any of the bread tins I use in the oven.<\/p>\n
The crust on the side of the loaf is usually nicer than on the top (top isn’t as thick and crunchy).<\/p>\n
To avoid using bread improver, instead use the juice of an orange (or I’ve also used about 1\/3 cup of fresh orange juice). This gives lovely structure and texture to the bread without adding anything artificial.<\/p>\n
Some recipes say add some milk thing, i’ve just ignored it and done fine.<\/p>\n
Waking up to fresh bread smell is amazing.<\/p>\n
We put on a friends bucks night last weekend, and in the afternoon we did food at a friends place. Sort of a lunch\/dinner thing to keep us going with the nights drinking and general revelry. I baked 3 loaves of bread and it went down really well (10 of us finished all 3 off). Got lots of compliments for it too :)<\/p>\n
Of course, the majority of bread from everywhere else now just tastes shit (because it is). If you’re going to buy bread – buy it from a *really* good baker. Or, take the hit – buy a bread machine and do it. Cost per loaf for yeast, water and salt is approximately nothing and bakers flour is cheap.<\/p>\n
Join the war on bad bread, bake your own today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have purchased exactly one loaf of bread this year. The fact that it’s May is kind of amazing for this…. and it’s not as if I haven’t eaten any bread – I love the stuff. I’ve been making it. … Continue reading