Club Breadmakers

[BigDevil]

LKVM:

:udaman: :salute: wow BigD... your bread looks yummy.. even I have the problem that sometimes the upper part for the bread will be quite fluffy and i supect cause we put the yeast last and on the top so maybe the top become more soft.. but nonetheless its good to have home made bread

Village Girl:

Agree with LKVM. My bread is always fluffy on top and more dense below.

Thanks! Yeah good to have homemade bread! :celebrate:

I didn't particularly notice the Hokkaido loaf to have a fluffy top with dense bottom. Maybe because it's so much fluffier than my first loaf that I didn't pay attention at all!

[BigDevil]

Maid:

:congrats: BigD first for joining the Breadmachine Club, next on the success of your fluffy pillow that your family could not wait to be cut!


Your Hokkaido bread looks really good and fluffy! Time for more experiments!

:thankyou: shifu!

Couldn't have done it that well without your offline guidance!! :celebrate:

[jtoh]

BigDevil:

jtoh:

BigDevil, for your Hokkaido loaf, how much did you reduce the recipe by? It doesn't state in the recipe what the size is so I'm not sure how much to reduce the ingredients by. Thanks.

Are you using the Z machine? I think the Z machine's pan is similar in size as mine, so you can use the reduced proportion I worked out.

My machine's recipe calls for 2 cups of bread flour, which I figure should be about 250g. But the Hokkaido loaf calls for a total of 600g (bread flour 540g, cake flour 60g) of flour! So I worked out the ratio and came up with this:

Fresh Milk \t\t\t104g
Whipping Cream \t\t63g
Milk Powder \t\t13g
Egg \t\t\t\t1 pc
Salt \t\t\t\t4g
Sugar \t\t\t33g
Bread flour \t\t225g
Cake Flour \t\t\t25g
Yeast \t\t\t4g

With this, the dough still rise up to touch the cover, so eventually I used only 3g+ of yeast and didn't have that problem anymore.

Thanks BigD!

[BigDevil]

You're very welcome!


Give it a try and let us know how it turns out! :drool:

[jtoh]

BigD, your recipe portions are very precise. Did you weigh it that carefully or you agar-agar?

[BigDevil]

jtoh:

BigD, your recipe portions are very precise. Did you weigh it that carefully or you agar-agar?

I'm not experienced enough to agar-agar, so I actually weigh every item.
But the small carton of whipping cream I bought didn't quite have enough to reach 63g
on my 3rd loaf, so I just top it up with a bit more fresh milk. Didn't seem to affect the result much.

[BigDevil]

WCW:

:salute: for being the one into a breadmachine, usually man will say go buy easier
:salute: for the nice and yum yum bread

Kekeke...it's easy for me lah.
So far it's been Mrs BigD doing most of the actual work of baking the bread.

[BigDevil]

You should get him to look at all the nice bread on this thread.

That's how I got hooked!

[jtoh]

BigDevil:

jtoh:

BigD, your recipe portions are very precise. Did you weigh it that carefully or you agar-agar?

I'm not experienced enough to agar-agar, so I actually weigh every item.
But the small carton of whipping cream I bought didn't quite have enough to reach 63g
on my 3rd loaf, so I just top it up with a bit more fresh milk. Didn't seem to affect the result much.

Thanks BigD. I'll give it a try. Maybe I'll agar agar bec my weighing machine is probably not v accurate.

[SavvyQueen]

hihi!


Thinking of getting my very own breadmaker… Anyone has recommendation on which is a good (simple to use) and reliable breadmaker?

Thank you!!