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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Bread Makers For Easy Baking

By Priscilla Cole


A bread maker is a home appliance that has transformed the process of making bread. First manufactured in 1986 in Japan, bread maker since then moved its way to houses in the United States and UK. By way of a bread maker, automated baking has become possible and more practical.

As with standard baking, ingredients must first be measured according to the recipe. The blend is then poured into the bread pan that is placed in the machine. The bread maker will then take some hours to cook the bread by first turning the mixture into dough and finally baking it. The method of making dough is aided by an in-built paddle. Once the baking is done and has been allowed to cool down, the bread is then liberated from the bread pan. The paddle at the bottom of the loaf should be removed from its place.

Bread maker breads are way easier to get spoiled as compared to the commercial breads thanks to the absence of additions. Nonetheless it's possible that sourdough starter might be added to the ingredients to lengthen the shelf life of the bread.

Bread makers have built-in timers that might be set for simpler baking. Other machines can be programmed to only prepare the dough and not to bake the bread later on in this example the dough is baked in a stove. Bread makers have other uses as well. They might be set to make jams, pizza bases, wheat-free loaf, cakes, and pasta and in some examples, mochi- a Japanese rice bread.

Issues in choosing a bread maker:

- The over-all capacity of baking loafs

- The standard of bread produced

- The length of time it takes to make one loaf

- The featured programs

- Type: may either be single loaf bread maker or multi loaf bread maker

But like with ordinary baking there may arise several Problems concerning the quality of the bread produced. These may either be caused by the method of baking or the standard of bread maker itself.

Doughy loaf

This difficulty essentially concerns the temperature of the bread maker. The built in thermometer must read 190 F. Once the baking is over and the loaf is still doughy, you'll choose to continue baking it in a conventional oven or wait until the bread maker cools down and start the whole process over.

Little bread

Absence of liquid added to the dough. The difficulty starts with the melting of the yeast. If too small liquid is utilized, the yeast won't be stimulated to produce the required CO2, which is instrumental in making the dough rise. Without this, the loaf may become dense and will most likely be much smaller.

Crumpled or flat-topped bread

Falling down is typically due to too much addition of liquid to the dough. The yeast in this example is very stimulated, producing rather more gluten than the dough may withhold. This leads directly to the falling down of loaf structure.

Bread sticking in the bread maker pan

This can be resolved by brushing the bread maker pan with oil before adding the water into the dough. This works very well in the majority of conventional ovens also.

Too much rising of the loaf

This problem may be controlled with the employment of salt. Adding a half teaspoon of salt could be enough to keep the rising of the bread in balance.

One need not be an Einstein to run a simple machine e. g. the bread maker. For more instruction and self-help tips, users may check the manual of the machine.

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