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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] [b]Lord_Fukutoku said:[/b] Now before you post some kind of "bread-snob" () remark about us using a bread machine... I know we're cheating and we're not actually "making" bread... To you I say "pffffffft" Big thumbs up to making your own bread (even if you cheat and have a machine do the mixing and kneading). [/quote] I would be the last person on earth to look down on your for using a machine to do your mixing and kneading (heck, I use instant yeast--I'm no bread snob). I have kneaded dough by hand, and I think everyone should try it at least once, but when it comes down to it the machine just saves time. Professional bakers use dough mixers for the same reason. Now, it is true that the intensity of the kneading, the length of the kneading, the length of the autolyse period, etc., all have an effect on the final dough. With specialized dough mixing machines, you can adjust all of these settings. Unfortunately, I don't have a specialized machine, just a regular bread machine, so I have to get creative. Still, there are some types of dough that are out of reach for me (like the extra wet dough used to make Roman-style pizza, because the machine can not knead it fast enough or long enough). Most of your bread doughs, though, will be fine in the dough cycle of a bread machine. If you have to choose between eating more homemade bread kneaded by machine and eating less homemade bread because you don't have the time or energy to knead by hand... well, that's not really a choice now, is it? And I would agree with hyperbole: having tried both methods, I can say that machine-kneaded bread is just as good as hand-kneaded bread. Still waiting for news on Tao's bread exploits... [Edit: Did you know that there are some breads that are impossible to make without a kneading machine? Ciabatta dough, for example, is so wet that it is impossible to knead it by hand. Same goes for the Roman pizza dough I mentioned above, actually. I decided to try it in my machine one day and realized that it wasn't kneading fast enough, so I took it out, put it in a bowl, and tried whipping it around with my fists. My arms almost fell off after two minutes, and I never did get the required consistency. Still baked the pizza, though. :)] [img]http://www.liminality.org/asylum/sigs/quickie.gif[/img] ___________________________ Suho: [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/4837]Cell 270[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5689]Sig Rotator[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/22173]the Fellowship of Sup[/url] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/2031]Suho1004[/url] on 12-17-2008 01:39)[/small] Loading...
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