Breadmakers

[Tuckervill]

Forget the bread machine. Get him the book "Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day". Make dough every two weeks and have bread fresh out of the oven every day at dinner!

But if he wants it, he has to make it, no matter which way you go!

Karen

[tulip]

Forget the bread machine. Get him the book "Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day". Make dough every two weeks and have bread fresh out of the oven every day at dinner!

But if he wants it, he has to make it, no matter which way you go!

Karen

Great recommendation--and great bread!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Forget the bread machine. Get him the book "Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day". Make dough every two weeks and have bread fresh out of the oven every day at dinner!

But if he wants it, he has to make it, no matter which way you go!

Karen

Thanks Karen, I've been hearing about this book for a while now. I just looked at some preview pages on Amazon which described the whole technique pretty well, and decided to buy the book used there. I look forward to my first batch!
You can read the beginning of the book here in the preview pages:
Artisan bread in 5 minutes book
It all makes perfect sense to me, and I used to bake a lot of bread from scratch back in the day, but have not all the spare time now. This looks like less work than even a bread machine!

[smilingcat]

After reading this thread, got a hunkering for fresh baked bread. Total time to finished bread cooling on the rack < 2 hours. I have a mixer with a dough hook I don't own a proofing box. I'm just very careful with my convection oven to proof my dough.

Baking bread doesn't have to be an all day affair while making a mess in kitchen. The two hours include cleaning of equipment.

Whole wheat yummo!! qumquat marmalade YUMMO!!

If hubby really wants it but you don't want to make it. He is a big boy learn to make his own especially if he is using a bread machine.

This cook goes on a strike fairly often.

[lph]

We used to have a bread machine and loved it. I did the organizing and lined up all the ingredients plus the necessary measuring stuff in the cupboard directly over the machine, plus taped the recipe to the inside of the door. It took me or dh max 5 min to measure and fill every evening.

But.

No way would I be doing this if I didn't want to, just for dh. Not on a regular basis at least. As for buying it - just say "go ahead, sweetie, I'm sure you'll get the hang of it, I've heard it's easy".

And then
Stay
Away
From
It!

[GLC1968]

If anyone is interested in the Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day - check out my blog. I LOVE that book and use it all the time. I did a photo essay of sorts on one of my batches as an illustration about a month ago. Good stuff and sooo easy!

I can't tell you how many failed loaves I had prior to using this method. A house at 55F is just not conducive to raising bread dough - even my bread machine had issues with it!

Oh, and I'm definitely a fan of the bread machine for simplicity. Dump in the ingredients and walk away. It doesn't get much easier than that. I don't like the shape of the loaf that my machine makes, so I use the dough recipe most times and bake it myself in the oven. While I know that making bread by hand is simple enough, when one can barely find 30 minutes to make a home cooked meal, 2 - 3 hours spent on making bread is a true luxury. A bread machine is a great timesaver (and home made bread costs pennies and is so much healthier than store bought stuff).

Just my .02

[sgtiger]

GLC1968, I just check out your blog the other day, and the pictures of bread were mouth-watering.

BTW a few Qs about the seed starting picture where you used a rubbermaid lid as a tray..... Do the little hand-rolled containers have bottoms? What kind of paper did you use? Can the containers themselves be planted too?

[GLC1968]

Those little containers are just the center cores of paper towel rolls. I cut them into thirds, tie them with the sisal twine (to hold them or else they start to unravel when they get wet), fill them with moistened sterile potting soil and then planted my seeds. They are all sprouting (I should take a new picture) now. When they are big enough, they'll either go into the garden or into larger pots (depending on what they are and the timing in relation to our last frost date). They can be planted, core, twine and all!

The tray with the lip is so that I can water the tray and not the seedlings. This way, they develop better root systems as they grow downward to get to it. Plus, it keeps moss/mold development at the leaf end to a minimum.