Bread Makers

[calibrax]

steve2 said:

I have a Panasonic and use it about once a month but the last two attempts to make bread have resulted in the dough not rising for some reason, will give it another go at the weekend

Yeast out of date?

[Scantily]

I love my Panasonic bread maker, it gets used at least once a week and has done for a couple of years now. There's nothing quite like waking up to the smell of baking bread.

[motco]

-Pete- said:

We bought a 2nd hand Panasonic for £30, I use it once or twice a week, every loaf of bread is brilliant, and it takes 5 minutes in total including cleaning up. Who can do it by hand in 5 minutes? I normally use 80% white 20% wholemeal or brown flour, add golden linseeds, often with sunflower and/or pumpkin seeds, works out around 75p per loaf.

I hope you grind the linseeds because if you don't you'll find they pass straight though you!

[Murph7355]

miroku said:

Do not do this! My wife "invested" in one of these contraptions and after weeks of Date bread, Nut bread, Banana bread etc etc the kids and I would have paid £10 for a white sliced loaf.
Can you imagine a bacon sarnie with date/banana etc bread? Do not go there!
Offending item is now locked in a cupboard. Wife or Breadmaker? I'll leave you to guess.

Man up, take the keys to it off her and make yourself some white bread with it.

Can you imagine a bacon sarnie on fresh cooked white bread and butter....mmmmmmmmmmmm, baaaaaaaacon.

[don4l]

calibrax said:

steve2 said:

I have a Panasonic and use it about once a month but the last two attempts to make bread have resulted in the dough not rising for some reason, will give it another go at the weekend

Yeast out of date?

Or maybe the flour.

Last year we had a couple of loaves fail to rise. The flour was 6 months out of date. New flour sorted the problem out.