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Bread Machine recipes

Discussion forum for all things related to using your bread machine. Share your favorite bread machine tips, tricks, ideas and recipes here.

iluv2bake's picture

Never use your bread machine to bake bread

December 30, 2022 - 1:40pm -- iluv2bake

I tried to bake bread in the Bread Man machine that my husband gave me for Christmas in 2005. 

Both times, the rising dough apparently touched the top before it was baked. The top end of the loaves were sunken in.

I now use my bread machine only to make dough. It's easier than using my Kitchenaid mixer and having to do the windowpane test to make sure I've kneaded the dough for long enough. 

Just toss the ingredients in the machine, press the button, and voila! Bread dough, already risen once, ready for shaping! 

Doughead's picture

always dense and dry

October 17, 2022 - 12:32pm -- Doughead

hi brand new prob been asked before but have a couple of quests at once so all the help I can get

ok so if tried dif types flour, dif water temps, oil /no oil, butter room temp and cold, 1/2 butter/oil, half butter/marge,dif yeast types both room/cold temp and dry milk/no dry milk

water,sugar,salt,flour,dry milk,duvet on top for yeast and tried water yeast (desolve /not desolve) salt sugar butter dry milk

so any ideas suggs so far?

foxybaker's picture

Burst top after switching to new flour

October 14, 2022 - 11:44am -- foxybaker

Hello,

I have a Lakeland compact breadmaker which has been great since I've had it (3 months ish).

I started using a fairly premium brand of flour to get the hang of it and tweaked the recipe to my liking..

I've now started using Lidl flour which is about the 1/3 of the price and the results have still tasted good but result in this kind of bursting.top.

I wondered if it were too much or too little water and have adjusted both ways. The "least bursting" occurred with an amount of water in the middle.

Yuvalr8899's picture

Breadmaker smell & tastes weird

July 10, 2022 - 7:52am -- Yuvalr8899

Hello! 
I have been making breads in a breadmaker I recently purchsed. The breads turned out great as I was following instructions and recipes to the gram very carefully, but I noticed the breads tend to have loke a "machiney" smell And tastes to them, very hard to explain but very unpleasent. Kind of like baking in a new oven/machine and it smells like.. plastic.. kind of?, more like -  somethings a bit "off". How can I avoid this problem? Thank you in advance! 

Uplander's picture

Bread is too light and fluffy

February 3, 2022 - 12:50pm -- Uplander

Hello from a newbie to The Fresh Loaf and apologies if this is not posted in the correct place.

I am not new to bread making but decided to see if I could make my life easier by purchasing a bread maker.  We bought an entry level Panasonic and I have to say I am amazed at the way it effortlessly produces quite a reasonable loaf.  That said, I do like the firmness of my hand made bread and the machine output is too light and fluffy for my taste.

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