Club Breadmakers

[Village Girl]

Update - i did not make white bread yesterday. My girl wanted chocolate bread instead. My house run out of chocolate powder so we substitude with milo powder. Used regular variation this time. The bread is soft n nice. I think the slightly moist texture was due to the honey the last time.

[ptmom]

nadya04:

First time used the zojirushi breadmaker and it was pretty good. Got the ok from the kids and hubby. It is so easy to use. Will recommend this to my friends. Its not easy to get the milk powder. There's only 1 brand that I saw in NTUC.

Good thing it's organic.

Hi nadya04, what brand of dry milk did u use? I couldnt find any in the 'baking' section of the supermarket so just used normal powdered milk for my first loaf with Z machine yesterday. Turns out ok but just wondering if there is any difference with other milk

[pixiedust]

It seems we have mainly breadmachine bread makers here ?

Anyone tried No Knead Baking Method or Yeastless (Natural Leaven) Bread ?
Electricity cost going up :roll: so I was thinking of trying No Knead method.

[autumnbronze]

ptmom:

nadya04:

First time used the zojirushi breadmaker and it was pretty good. Got the ok from the kids and hubby. It is so easy to use. Will recommend this to my friends. Its not easy to get the milk powder. There's only 1 brand that I saw in NTUC.

Good thing it's organic.

Hi nadya04, what brand of dry milk did u use? I couldnt find any in the 'baking' section of the supermarket so just used normal powdered milk for my first loaf with Z machine yesterday. Turns out ok but just wondering if there is any difference with other milk

Hi ptmom,

Normal powdered milk is fine.

[csc]

some updates


so far I have tried baking basic white bread, honey bread (which tastes wonderful with butter), cheese bread (should have added more cheese). I love the Breadtalk version but have yet to achieve that kind of standard

Have even baked a raisin butter cake ... a little dry when compared to normal oven baked- butter cake...but it goes well with coffee ...

I am going into buns soon ... my kiddos are looking forward to mum's home baked pork floss buns :imcool: Coming soon!

[Funz]

pixiedust:

It seems we have mainly breadmachine bread makers here ?

Anyone tried No Knead Baking Method or Yeastless (Natural Leaven) Bread ?
Electricity cost going up :roll: so I was thinking of trying No Knead method.

Went to read up on the no knead bread. Interesting but a very loooong process.

If saving electricity is your concern, don't think this will save much since it takes about 1.5hrs to bake the bread. Normal breads take take about 30mins, give or take. Not sure if it will work if we bake it the normal way.

Knead manually, no need to use electricity, can build arm muscles summore.

But really interesting, very rustic. Thanks for bringing up this idea.

[Village Girl]

csc:

some updates


so far I have tried baking basic white bread, honey bread (which tastes wonderful with butter), cheese bread (should have added more cheese). I love the Breadtalk version but have yet to achieve that kind of standard

Have even baked a raisin butter cake ... a little dry when compared to normal oven baked- butter cake...but it goes well with coffee ...

I am going into buns soon ... my kiddos are looking forward to mum's home baked pork floss buns :imcool: Coming soon!

Wow...nice. are you using z breadmachine too?

[csc]

Yup..Village Girl...the Z machine ... a worthwhile investment so far

[pixiedust]

Funz, u have a point. I kept thinking bat the 1hr kneading, timer for 1st rise etc in the bread maker. Plus I kept thinking the cast iron pot can be used over fire…got to read and think again. Meanwhile, I better to exercise my muscles. Hahahaha.

[pixiedust]

LkVm, thanks! I am baking every other day, checked the voltage of the machine and :yikes: will monitor.