Thread: Who bakes bread?

Originally Posted by OCDshaver

Boiled and baked this morning.

You get an ATTA BOY!!!

Do you refrigerate the dough overnight and then let it rise?

Originally Posted by cudarunner

You get an ATTA BOY!!!

Do you refrigerate the dough overnight and then let it rise?

The other way around really. They were formed and allowed to rise, then refrigerated overnight.

Y'all make me feel like such an underachiever... (eating bag bread and peanut butter sandwich)

That's the only real way to do it. I made them that way for years until my wife took up the space where I'd leave them overnight in the fridge.

Well, I guess it's time for me to chime in.... Long time baker of bread, grind my own flour and I do 6 x 1.5lb loaves of bread at a time. I admit this would not have happened without my Bosch Universal machine... that puppy can knead 8 x 1.5lbs loaves of bread dough, make it 10 loaves with the special bottom drive, stainless bowl. Time from start of grinding wheat berries to rising in the pans was about 1hr. I used to do 6 loaves because that's what fit in our oven!

Today I have a bread machine... a Zojirushi to be specific. I love it to bits.... it does what I want, when I want, and without any heroics. No... it's not the exact same stuff I used to make with the Bosch, but close enough so that I don't care. Like others here, I need to watch how much bread I eat... for a while, gluten and carbs were completely off my list of foods I could eat.... Now I can eat a small amount here and there, so the one loaf at a time issue with the Zojirushi, is a non issue.

Even bread machine bread is superior to what I can buy at the grocery store.... and cheaper to boot... There's lots of recipes for my machine, but we're back to the issue of limiting the amount of carbohydrates I eat in a day. Not having them available is a great way to limit them.... Lucky me... I have come down with this weird disease that only about 200 people world wide have be diagnosed with.....<sigh>.

So, I went from grinding my own flour from wheat berries to the "occasional" white flour based bread (Panatone being my favourite), and the Mrs. has no problems with the cinnamon raisin bread the machine produces.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

That's the only real way to do it. I made them that way for years until my wife took up the space where I'd leave them overnight in the fridge.

The recipe I used makes about a dozen bagels. I'll see hwo they freeze. If not so good, I will adjust to 1/2 or 1/3 so I don't have too many on hand. The fridge space isn't too much of an issue. I have a second one in the garage so overflow can easily find room.

Originally Posted by kaptain_zero

Well, I guess it's time for me to chime in.... Long time baker of bread, grind my own flour and I do 6 x 1.5lb loaves of bread at a time. I admit this would not have happened without my Bosch Universal machine... that puppy can knead 8 x 1.5lbs loaves of bread dough, make it 10 loaves with the special bottom drive, stainless bowl. Time from start of grinding wheat berries to rising in the pans was about 1hr. I used to do 6 loaves because that's what fit in our oven!

I use a Kenwood 7 qt. I've had it for years. I keep waiting for it to finally burn out. If/when it does, I will replace it with another. Its been an outstanding performer. They are not cheap but if you use them a lot, they pay for themselves over time. Mine gets used a few times a week.

Yes, these workhorse machines are great. I really like the fact that the stock bowel on the Universal can knead 12lbs of dough with ease and yet with the whisks, whip a single egg white perfectly.

I do like the bottom drive of the Bosch.... it leaves the entire top open for adding ingredients, unlike some machines where the paddles/hooks/whisks and the power gantry hang over top of the opening, making it difficult to add items to the mixing bowl. And because the power comes from the bottom of the machine through the tower in the center of the bowl, there is no climbing up the hook or whisks, they just climb *down* into the bowl again.

I've never been able to break anything on my Bosch, but I have wore out one blender base.... not bad in 20ish years of use.

I do like to bake bread, and if any of you gents have a recipe for a garlic bread, I would be more than interested.

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Today's bread is.......English muffins. Breakfast for tomorrow.