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I realise this might not be what the question has in mind, but we have a bread machine. Just buying bread might be more 'automatic', but we've been evolving th
by jacknews 6y ago
I realise this might not be what the question has in mind, but we have a bread machine.
Just buying bread might be more 'automatic', but we've been evolving the process and recipe for the last 6+ months, and honestly the bread is now better than any but the best artisan loaves available locally, and hugely cheaper.
To save time, and overcome laziness, we pre-mix 'wet' and 'dry' 'kits' in batches of 6 or 10 loaves at a time, and divide into loaf-sized portions. Wet is water, sugar, honey, oil, salt, etc. Dry is various flours, oats, multigrains, etc.
When it comes time to make bread (usually the night before we want it), it's a simple matter of pouring a wet kit into the machine, sprinkling over a dry kit, some yeast, setting the timer and pressing 'start'.
The kids do that, and do most of the batch prep, which we/they've optimised for teamwork, and for example we've 3d printed scoops in the right measures for the recipe, to speed measurements.
So from my point of view, I almost have 'automatic bread' :)
- alexfromapex 6y agoThanks for sharing, sometimes the best answers aren’t exactly what was asked
- actionowl 6y agoYou might have just convinced me to buy a bread machine... To add a similar answer, only in the past couple of years have I had a nice rice cooker (we have a Zojirushi) that keeps the rice fresh for ~12 hours. It is irreplaceable at this point (My wife is Asian and rice is a part of pretty much every meal.) Best appliance I have ever bought, gets used every. single. day. and have rice ready-to-eat throughout the day.
- helij 6y agoWe bought a bread machine almost three years ago. Since then we are yet to buy bread in a shop. The machine is amazing. It literally takes 3 minutes to prep. No fancy recipe. Spoon of yeast + 400g flour + spoon of sugar + spoon of salt + 20g of butter + 280ml of water. Quick program and fresh bread is done in 2h. Highly recommend it. I don't want to advertise but we bought a well known Japanese brand after a lot of research.
- jsilence 6y agoPlease advertise! Genuinly curious.
- fendrak 6y agoProbably one of these: https://www.zojirushi.com/app/category/breadmakers https://www.zojirushi.com/app/category/breadmakers
- rdtwo 6y agoOnly one you should consider the rest are junk
- helij 6y agoZojirushi (which seems to be high quality as well) was mentioned but I went more mainstream and bought Panasonic SD-2511KXC. Looks like they don't make it anymore but there are similar ones available.
- jarno3000 6y agoOn my second Panasonic after over 15 years of making bread at home. Highly dependable and pretty much guaranteed a good loaf every time.
- jacknews 6y ago"You might have just convinced me to buy a bread machine..." It also makes excellent pizza dough ... "My wife is Asian and rice is a part of pretty much every meal." Strangely, I am in a similar situation, and do not have a rice cooker. Time to go shopping.
- m463 6y agoWe used to have a bread machine years ago. The best part was the smell of freshly baked bread. The part I didn't like was the big hole in the loaf where the bread mixing paddle thing was. Has that been solved?
- jacknews 6y agoIndeed, we usually program it to be ready by morning - so we wake to the smell of fresh-baked bread, it really fills the house - no need for an alarm! The paddles thing hasn't been solved AFAIK, I think they'd have be lowered and raised from the lid, rather than retracting through the waterproof pan. But anyway, with a dual-paddle machine, it's not such a big deal.
- lenova 6y agoSorry for the late reply, but what's your go-to bread machine recipe?
- jacknews 6y ago~750g multigrain wet kit (optimised to fill a nominal 330ml bottle): water 301g oil 30g salt 10g honey 10g sugar 9g (or just 20g honey) cider vinegar 5g lime juice 5g dry kit: white flour 400g (still experimenting to replace some of this with healthier options) quick oats 50g wholemeal 30g (coarse) white sesame tbsp black sesame tbsp sunflower tbsp flax 1/2 tbsp milk powder 12g ginger powder 1g or 1/4 tsp yeast ~8g It may or may not work well for anyone else. The initial goal was to replicate the 'Alpine' loaf that we used to buy regularly. We've gradually evolved the recipe for our specific machine, flour, process, etc, and I think we've now actually surpassed the goal by some margin.