I saw a breadmaker on Facebook marketplace last week, and it sent me down the rabbit hole. I watched videos, researched the various models, and saved countless recipes. Do I even eat bread on a regular basis? No! I honestly can’t tell you the last time I bought it at the store. But once I have my mind set on something, that’s it. The nail in the coffin was a YouTube video I saw where a woman made a three course Italian meal using solely her breadmaker. She not only made the pasta dough, but also butter, bread, cake, and ragú sauce. So tonight after work, I picked up the breadmaker from Facebook marketplace. My local shop didn’t have any yeast, so I settled to make butter! It was super easy - just poured double cream and salt into the breadmaker and set it on the dough cycle!

Great to see King Arthur Unbleached Bread Flour back (Southeast) - maybe it’s available for the holiday season? Price is $10 for 12 lbs.

Happy baking!

Used the same recipe I previously posted about on here, but used proper breadmaking tools I was gifted for my birthday yesterday to get better results.

Heres the recipe, I went and added 5.5 cups worth of flour. I used the dough option on my breadmaker and then cut them into 16 portions instead of 12. Next time I make this I'm going to make it in my squared cake pan https://amybakesbread.com/quick-and-easy-burger-buns/

Got given a breadmaker for Christmas 2024 by my dad (Panasonic, can't remember the specific model); to say that I'm happy with it is an understatement..!

My partner and I usually make a loaf for the week but now we're finally exploring the other recipes within the accompanying leaflet - so far we've done pizzas, flatbreads, cinnamon rolls, French sticks and burger buns as well as our standard 50/50 loaves.

Obsessed doesn't really begin to cover it. I love its convenience, I love how reliable it is, I love how I'm paying less for better quality breads than the supermarket. Yeah they're not handmade, but given we both work 9-5 full time jobs, it's been such a small but impactful quality of life improvement that I don't think I could live without one now.

Maybe I'm just in the honeymoon phase, but as a gal who really loves bread this has been such a gamechanger for me. Favourite pics of recent bakes attached <"

But nope!!! In the past month I have used it consistently at least every few days. Especially for making bagel dough. I had never made bagels before but we are now ruined for store bought bagels. Because what do you mean they can be this light and crispy and perfect? I thought bagels were bricks. Someone here posted a link to a YouTube video of Farofa Canadense ‘Bread Machine New York Style Bagels’ and as soon as we run out I make another batch. Last time I made half the dough with King Arthur Flour’s Cinnamon Sweet Bits and some white chocolate chips for French toast bagels. Learned to add the chips at the end or they melt but still. Awesome.

Anyways this is all largely thanks to this sub that I ever took the plunge and I wanted to say thank you!

How many times do I have to do this till I learn lol

I kept seeing this recipe on the KA site (every time I made the pillowy cinnamon rolls - so twice this week), so I made a loaf after work Friday. Basically, the tanghong, milk, salt, sugar, milk powder, and melted butter went into the pan first, flour and yeast on that (Breadman Plus), then ran the dough cycle. At first, the dough ball was like…idk, wet sand if sand was smooth? You could push on it and mold it with the spatula, but it was more like a glob of wet ingredients than dough, so I had doubts. Let the cycle go, and at the end of the first rise, the dough I dumped on the bench was pillowy and gorgeous. I just eyeball divided it into 4 pieces, flattened and rolled them as instructed (uh, basically), then put them in an uncovered Pullman pan and baked at 350F for 30 minutes in my Tovala combi oven. First time making bread in there, so one side of the top did get a bit brown. First pic of crumb is sliced, second is two rolled sections pulled apart. It’s like if angel food cake and bread had a baby. 💕

So after a surprisingly short period of time, I’m pretty much almost done. Steam, a little bit of dawn, and leaving hot damp towels on the walls/ lid did the trick. I rested it on an incline while cleaning and after triple and quadruple checking I can safely say there’s no water in it.

To my haters, I would politely like to encourage you please suck on a fat one.

Oh and yes, it turns on.

Managed to get all the measurements right from memory, feeling very proud of myself. Until 5 hours later i open the lid and instantly realise i forgot one very key ingredient...the water! Flour based sandcastle anyone?

330 ml room temp milk, 4 tbsp melted butter, 2 tbsp sugar, 1 1/4 teaspoon salt, 499 g of bread flour and 1 1/4 tsp yeast in that order. 2 lb loaf with medium crust. I’m obsessed!

Finally found a bread machine in my thrift after what feels like ages 😩🤌🏼

Excited to try some of the recipes I found in the manual online!

I asked my oldest son (8) if there was anything he wanted to try making with the bread machine yesterday. Being a kid of course he wanted to make a dessert haha. So we attempted a chocolate cake. It came out nice and soft, I was surprised to be honest.

Recipe we followed:
- 1 Cup – Whole Milk
- 12 Tablespoons – Unsalted Butter (melted in microwave)
- 2 Teaspoons – Vanilla Extract
- 2 – Eggs (yolks broken)
- 2 Cups – All-Purpose Flour
- 1 1/2 Cups – Light Brown Sugar
- 1/2 Cup – Cocoa Powder Unsweetened
- 1 Teaspoon – Baking Powder
- 1 Teaspoon – Baking Soda
- 1/2 Teaspoon – Salt
- 3/4 Cup – Mini Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
(I couldn't find mini chips so we bought the full size chips and used a blender to crush them. from what I've read online using full size chips will cause them to sink during mix and bake.)

Notes:
- Added to machine in order above.
- Use the Cake or Quick bake setting on the bread machine. It should have a run time of 1:45~2:00.
- My machine mixed the batter for about 20 minutes before getting started on the bake. I recommend checking the pan after the mix cycle to make sure no flour got stuck to the sides and using a rubber spatula to scrape it down if needed.
- Let cool before icing or the icing will just melt off (ask me how I know haha). This one took like an hour and half to cool.
- If you're doing this with your kiddo I HIGHLY suggest letting them crack the eggs into a separate bowl in case you need to remove any shell pieces.

He did pretty good putting it all together. I tried to just obverse and help when he wasn't sure about the measurements and such. The cake alone was about the limit of his attention span so we didn't make a homemade icing and just used a pre-made whipped milk chocolate icing to finish it off. It was pretty tasty, nice and soft.

UPDATE: My kid is loosing his mind that *his* cake has over 300 upvotes LOL. I hope this experience gets him into cooking more.

I really wanted a bread maker and had my heart set on really any Zojirushi. After my 3rd trip to my local D.I (basically the goodwill in Utah run by the LDS church) I found this guy that I am not sure had ever been used for $10.

Got home. Works great. I’m over the moon.

On a whim, decided to throw a box mix of cake in my bread machine. I’m staying at my in-law’s vacation house for the week and besides the bread machine I brought, there’s not much else to bake with.

It was my first time doing this and also using the cake setting - was actually impressed! I literally dumped all the ingredients in and hit start - all while camera off on a zoom call (that could’ve been an email). Didn’t come back to it until I heard the beep and my last meeting wrapped up.

A little crusty on the bottom but for having applied 0 effort and investing like 5 min, I’m impressed! Anyone have any good cake/quick bread recipes or hacks?