Bread

[unixronin]

There's bread ... developing in the bread machine.  I'd say baking, except it isn't, yet.  I'm not sure quite what the bread machine is supposed to be doing at this stage.

cymrullewes had me measure and add several of the ingredients, and I touched the bread machine at least twice.

It's doomed, I tell you.  Dooooomed.

Comments

[elegantelbow.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure quite what the bread machine is supposed to be doing at this stage.

If the machine isn't kneading, and isn't baking, then the bread is rising. It's just the yeast reproducing like mad, and the bread machine is, at this point, only a vessel and fascilitator.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Actually, cymrullewes said it was in the warming stage to make the yeast nice and happy. It just now started mixing.

[jilara.livejournal.com]

I believe that they developed bread machines and bread machine mixes for people who have the baking jinx. ;-) If you measured correctly, you should be fine. Unless the machine itself starts to smoke or shed parts.

[bfly.livejournal.com]

My bread machine has a "pre-warm" phase too. It annoys me. Apparently the later models have eliminated it, since it's an unnecessary step under most circumstances. But that's the only thing I don't like about my bread machine, and I haven't worn it out yet so I guess I'll just have to put up with it.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Well? Was it doomed?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

It turns out cymrullewes good bread-fu overpowers my bad bread-fu. It's good bread.

[juuro.livejournal.com]

You remembered also the undocumented five minutes of not touching? Good. Like technoshaman, we are curious to know what went boom (or flat) this time.

No boom, bite

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

It looked wonderful when I came down this morning. Then I looked at the other side of it and there seemed to be a rather large bite taken out of the crown crust.

Re: No boom, bite

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

That wasn't a bite. That was the piece that ripped off the edge of the crust when I lifted the wire handle on the pan.

[motomuffin.livejournal.com]

It's Restin'. It's Pinin' for the Fjords.

;)

[batchfile.livejournal.com]

would you like a technical explanation of what is going on? it's rather interesting...

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Not really, I'm afraid. I am far from a big consumer of baked goods (I virtually never buy any baked goods myself except for crackers and flatbread, and occasionally bread for toast) and I have to admit that as a result I really have no significant interest in baking.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Which is a crying shame really. It severely limits the amount of experimenting I do in the kitchen.

Luckily, I can pawn off stuff on the guys at work. (I'm a construction scheduler. Those guys will eat anything and thank me for it. :-)

But for home, I bake honey oatmeal bread, regular white bread, pineapple upside down cake, chocolate cherry cake, cinnamon rolls (with apples or raisins or some other fruit or nothing extra), cheese biscuits (I'm from North Carolina, I can make biscuits :-), oatmeal raisin or craisin or dried cherry cookies, C is for Cookie (cinnamon, chocolate chip, chocolate, candy or cashew, thinking about cherries, thinking about cardamon), brownies (with and without extras like chocolate chips, nuts, or dried fruit, or frosting be it melted Andes mints or cake icing), and the occasional cheesecake, generally a chocolate orange one. But I've made these so very often that I'm bored and would like to experiment. But without the wasting of food and with genuine appreciation for my efforts.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Which is a crying shame really. It severely limits the amount of experimenting I do in the kitchen.

I don't see why. The girls all love the things you bake.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

I don't see why. The girls all love the things you bake.

In case you didn't notice, if you don't like something the girls don't like it either. Remember the baba ganoush?

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

it's not doomed!