Anyone use a bread machine to bake their own bread?

[icebear]

Careful there, it might grow friends.........:lol2
lol, i chased the stink down the sink with some vinegar and baking soda, oh it was awful stuff. it was like highschool biology lab gone horribly wrong
:faint

[Lynn]

Icebear, did you need to add any vital wheat gluten in order for the dough made with rye flour to rise? I love rye bread (and barley, too), but I always seems to need to add extra gluten. If you did too, how much did you add and for how many loaves?
Thanks.
Lynn

[icebear]

i didn't add any gluten, i made one loaf as a test batch... it is a bit dense, but my sourdough starter is pretty frisky, so i think the combo worked ok, for me anyway, i don't mind heavy bread.

i didn't write it down but i started the test loaf with:

2 C sourdough starter
1/2 C brown sugar
2 t salt
2 T olive oil
1 1/2 to 2 C wg rye flour
and maybe a cup or more of white unbleached AP flour, plus more for kneading and board dusting

i add flour by feel untill the dough is tight enough, so after the first two cups or so, i don't pay much attention :( i kept the dough a bit loose cause i have a tendency to add too much flour, its when i over do or overthink i get into trouble, so i kinda start flinging ingredients around.

it doubled in about an hour or less, punched it down once and put it in a greased glass bread pan, second rise took more than an hour to get it to peek over the pan, baked 370F it did some more rising and looked pretty nice... so far, i only cut about 1/3 of it into slices....

i don't know if my recipe is any good, but i'll try it again in the next day or so and tweak it a bit.

:panic

[Sing4Him]

Sing and her bread machine:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/NiseyG/ILOVELUCYBREAD.jpg

:heh

[lisa]

:pound

Nice one, Sing!

[icebear]

too much yeast?

:aha

[BeNotAfraid]

I used to make it by hand but I don't have much time anymore. My grandma got me a Sunbeam from Wal Mart this Christmas but the first time I used it it smoked!!!! Ruined the whole thing. I wiped the inside really well because I thought there might be a coating of something on it, but it did it the second time too. I was too lazy to take it back and exchange it, though!

[icebear]

smoke is usually normal the first time, but not the second :twitch

[BeNotAfraid]

smoke is usually normal the first time, but not the second :twitch

The dough spills over into the bottom. I'm not sure why, I followed the directions on the recipe that came with the breadmaker exactly.

It's more work to do it by hand, but if you do several loaves at once then it's time well spent, I think.

[Heartstorm]

I have a bread machine that I have used for years! I love it and so does everyone else that happens by when the bread is ready to come out:aha, I don't like the mixes at all but found a recipe for Light wheat bread that comes out perfect, I know the recipe by heart so I can through all the stuff in the pan in a few minutes. Yumm, I also LOVE to put the cinnamon rasin bread on at night as set the delay timer so that when we wake up the whole house smells like cinnamon and hot bread.. It is just wonderfull almost as good as eating it warm for breakfast smotherd in butter, :yeah