Bread/Bread Machines

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I have tried several machines over the years and it’s always been the item that ends up at the thrift store. Though to be fair, I’ve always purchased them used. Every 5-10 yrs it seems I try again.


This time, I found a used Zojirushi and think I’ve finally got a winner. It makes an actual bread loaf shaped loaf, so no weird tall pieces of bread. The paddles are small enough that they don’t leave huge weird shapes in the bottom of the loaf and best of all, it seems to be turning out consistently good bread.


I’ve made white, wheat and cracked wheat loaves and they’ve all been great. The only one that wasn’t a huge hit was the rye, so still working on that. The kids now only want mommy bread



I made some French bread dough that I cooked in mini loafs that was also really good, but so far that’s the only thing I’ve cooked out of the machine. I’m looking forward to trying more out of the machine, but it’s so nice to have an easy, good loaf with only a few minutes of work!


They have a newer model that has a second heating element in the lid, which seems like it’s probably even better, so I’m keeping an eye out for a used one.

[BonitaApplebum]

Nice! We went through a long phase of making our own bread in the 2010s, but eventually the machine died.

We used to premeasure the dry ingredients into baggies so that when it was time to make bread it literally took two minutes to dump a bag of dry ingredients and then just add liquids.

Nothing better than fresh hot bread! Can you post a pic of a loaf? Ours were a bit oddly shaped, I'd love to see yours.

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This isn’t mine, because I’m still enjoying coffee in bed and too lazy to go take a picture of the loaf I made last night

But it’s pretty much what the loaves look like. This is a 2lb loaf. The machine also has the option to do 1.5lbs which makes for a little shorter loaf. But we’ve been using this for sandwiches and like it.

My first loaf was weirdly shaped. They called it a ski slope shape. One end was tall and the other short. I started adding an extra T of water and that seems to have fixed it.




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[BonitaApplebum]

One thing I always meant to buy during our golden era of bread baking, but never did, was one of those things for slicing bread that are basically miter boxes.

I am a terrible freehand slicer and always made the most wonky looking (but delicious) slices.

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An electric knife and the box are amazing! My actual bread picture

[BonitaApplebum]

Mmmm nom nom nom