Recommend me a breakmaker

[GBC]

You don't need a machine, making bread by hand is easy and therapeutic. I make two loafs a week - wholewheat, white, rye or multigrain. Plus I often make a more fancy bread, like Chelsea buns or a brioche

+1
and the kneading is excellent for getting rid of any pent up aggression!

 

[summerdays]

I don't use it for pizza dough as I usually use 1kg of flour, which is more than the machine can handle.

How many pizza's do you make from that? I can just squeeze 3 out of 500g (the max of my machine), which is as many as I can squeeze into the oven (using the bottom of the oven with a small rack to lift it off the base).

 

[compo]

I have never been able to master the art of hand kneading. It looks so simple and I am sure that once you master it it is, but I just can't do it. I have always used my Kenwood with a dough hook, or latterly, my breadmaking machine.

 

[HLaB]

I was going to say Stephen Hendry but he's passed it, but perhaps Ronnie O'Sulivan?

 

[wormo]

Panasonic for me. Use it a minimum of 3 times per week. Come home from work every friday to the smell of fresh bread cooking. Mainly use it tho for making the dough for bread rolls during the week. You can't beat handmade bread, does taste nicer. I do find it quicker to make bread by hand rather than by machine. Takes 5 hrs for wholemeal loaf.

 

[Arjimlad]

+1 Panasonic.

 

[2PedalsTez]

Did someone say LARDY CAKE?!

I thought I'd buried that wonderful, but deadly cake in the depths of my memory!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

That makes 6 decent sized ones for us (one each plus one for the freezer). We can only do two at a time in the oven, but I use pizza stones and whack it up to 240 on the fan oven, so they only take about 5 or 6 minutes to cook.

I was hoping you were going to say one!

 

[vernon]

+1
and the kneading is excellent for getting rid of any pent up aggression!

And it cleans out the muck from behind your fingernails.

 

[Cubist]

I'm surprised you don't use the slow cooker, Vernon. Slack handful of goat, scoop of favourite Patak's curry paste, tin of Natco Exotic Veg, lid, switch, out the door and your dinner's ready for you when you pedal back six hours later.
Not a device I use in the summer, but the 1-2 person jobbie creates excellent stews and casseroles on bleak winter days.

Last week ... Ox tail stew, week before neck of lamb, week before that my slow cooked lamb curry on the bone..... Awesome contraptions.