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QuickChick wrote:Awesome! Can you see yourself using it a lot?


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My plan is to totally make my own bread. One loaf a week.

That's pretty much what we've been doing. We will occasionally buy a loaf of bread when it's on sale and stick it in the freezer in case we're caught out, but 95% of the time we eat the homemade. It works really well!


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Sometimes I will throw in a Tablespoon of ground flax seed. Gives the bread a bit of a nutritional boost. Doesn't change the outcome at all.

I love mine, but the bread never lasts very long (bunch of carb-lovers)! I do lower the sugar and usually use honey and it still works out just fine

Yesterday I tried another experiment. The Panasonic has a rapid rise option which only takes 3 hours to produce a loaf of bread; a big improvement over the 5 hours on normal cycle. Though I swear the 5 hours includes at least 1 hour of "resting".

First, I used the "soften" function on my microwave for the first time. I haven't had butter in my life for years but i bought some for the bread machine (which I plan to replace with soy butter but I wanted to follow instructions for the first few loaves). Butter is hard as a rock fresh from the fridge and throwing rocks into a bread machine didn't seem to make sense. So I accomplished "soften".

For the bread part, I make whole wheat but I increased the white portion to 1/3 mix thinking that might work better for rapid rise. The book increased the yeast by 1 teasp. And the buttons don't work exactly as the book says when you pick rapid rise for wheat but I finally got them to show wheat/M/rapid rise and pushed start.

The loaf came out much better than the first one I made. Maybe because of the increased white portion. But I like the consistency and that it only takes 3 hours so this will be my standard now.

File under "How An Engineer Makes Bread."

[reminds me of Design of Experiments]

Butter in bread? Is there also oil?

I add about 1/4c whole flax and 1/2c oatmeal when I make. It looks and tastes nice.

I'm glad you are getting use out of your machine.

IronColl wrote:Butter in bread? Is there also oil?

i just looked at some panasonic bread machine recipes. no oil in any of them.

is a bread machine like a slow cooker where there's a "keep warm" option, or do you have to remove the loaf as soon as it's finished?

deerdree wrote:

IronColl wrote:Butter in bread? Is there also oil?

i just looked at some panasonic bread machine recipes. no oil in any of them.

is a bread machine like a slow cooker where there's a "keep warm" option, or do you have to remove the loaf as soon as it's finished?

It has a 1 hour keep warm.
It also has a start timer.

Spirit wrote:

deerdree wrote:

IronColl wrote:Butter in bread? Is there also oil?

i just looked at some panasonic bread machine recipes. no oil in any of them.

is a bread machine like a slow cooker where there's a "keep warm" option, or do you have to remove the loaf as soon as it's finished?

It has a 1 hour keep warm.
It also has a start timer.

I guess the idea behind that is so that you can have warm bread when you won't be there right at the end of the baking process.

9 minutes to warm fresh oatmeal bread.

This morning's experiment, I put everything in the bread machine and set the timer. Now we are having a thunder storm. Fingers crossed no power blip at home.
Otherwise I'll push start when I get home.

Spirit wrote:This morning's experiment, I put everything in the bread machine and set the timer. Now we are having a thunder storm. Fingers crossed no power blip at home.
Otherwise I'll push start when I get home.

Experiment is complete. The bread is cooling. It is not as pretty on the outside as the loaves I start right away. I couldn't resist cutting it open. It looks fine.

I have a Champion juicer. Today, I dumped $4 of peanuts in it and got out $8 of peanut butter.
Tastes good. Peanuts and salt.

Spirit wrote:I have a Champion juicer. Today, I dumped $4 of peanuts in it and got out $8 of peanut butter.
Tastes good. Peanuts and salt.

Ooooooo, I was going to try and make my own peanut butter with my food processor. i just haven't done it yet.

Spirit wrote:I have a Champion juicer. Today, I dumped $4 of peanuts in it and got out $8 of peanut butter.
Tastes good. Peanuts and salt.

cool! that kind of thing makes me want a good food processor / blender.

I figured it out. I Hate to cook; but I like operating machines.

Spirit wrote:I figured it out. I Hate to cook; but I like operating machines.

Sounds like dee!

La wrote:

Spirit wrote:I figured it out. I Hate to cook; but I like operating machines.

Sounds like dee!

deerdree wrote:

La wrote:

Spirit wrote:I figured it out. I Hate to cook; but I like operating machines.

Sounds like dee!

ha ha you should see the appliances Dee and I were discussing today!

Speaking of kitchen gadgets (sort of) Habs was all excited about my hand coffee bean grinder. I did introduce her to the pineapple corer a few years back.

IronColl wrote:Speaking of kitchen gadgets (sort of) Habs was all excited about my hand coffee bean grinder. I did introduce her to the pineapple corer a few years back.

Yes, I ended up buying at least 3 people a pineapple corer, and my next mission is to find a hand grinder. I probably won't buy one for anyone else though.

Spirit wrote:I have a Champion juicer. Today, I dumped $4 of peanuts in it and got out $8 of peanut butter.
Tastes good. Peanuts and salt.

Eating homemade toast with homemade PB and (not homemade) honey.

Habs4ever wrote:

Spirit wrote:I have a Champion juicer. Today, I dumped $4 of peanuts in it and got out $8 of peanut butter.
Tastes good. Peanuts and salt.

Eating homemade toast with homemade PB and (not homemade) honey.

technically honey is homemade. I'm not sure there's a why to mass produce it but I could be wrong.

Samantha wrote:

Habs4ever wrote:

Spirit wrote:I have a Champion juicer. Today, I dumped $4 of peanuts in it and got out $8 of peanut butter.
Tastes good. Peanuts and salt.

Eating homemade toast with homemade PB and (not homemade) honey.

technically honey is homemade. I'm not sure there's a why to mass produce it but I could be wrong.

Not homemade by Habs, though.