Good way to build up your arm muscles. I must admit that I never had great success with hand-made bread - usually quite good but never seemed to rise enough, crisp up enough, cook enough ....
Looked at from the energy point of view I used to waste an enormous amount of electricity/gas just getting the room warm enough to make the bread rise; then heating up the oven to get the crust right &c &c.
Apart from the convenience, bread-makers must save an enormous amount of energy - just warming at the beginning then stronger heat for just the right cooking period.
.... and you can set it to finish cooking just when you're getting up in the morning.
Our seed-sprouter is an old gherkin jar with holes in the lid.
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Originally Posted by Meta menardi  I prefer the human hands model. Kneading the dough gets your finger nails really clean too. We do use the electric one and it is very good, the model we have uses a paddle that leaves you with a hole on the middle of the loaf, I think newer ones have a way round that. The other way is to get the mighty mill to knead the dough, then bake it in the oven.
Favoured gadget is the seed sprouter, lots of tastes and so on and you don't have to buy the expensive (but quite good value for what they produce) packets of seeds. |