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My sister gave me a LeKue bread maker for Christmas - at my request as I'd seen rave reviews and am a Lakeland addict. Yesterday we were planning a post-holiday-blowout dinner of soup so I decided to make some bread to accompany it. Using a packet-mix for speed (Sainsbury's multi-grain) so I didn't actually have to weigh out the ingredients,, but apart from that it was a good test of the gadjet which is essentially a silicone bowl with two 'ears' that clip together to make a part-closed roll to go in the oven.
The loaf came out ok - though Paul Hollywood would have poked it and made comments about 'part-baked dough'. The I put the following on Amazon.
This is designed to weigh the ingredients, mix them, prove the dough and go in the oven to bake. Like most multi-purpose things it does all these adequately but none well. It makes a very floppy bowl, (though light enough to use on an electronic scale), which is quite tricky to mix in (I used a spatula) and impossible to actually knead. I took the dough out and did it on my usual marble board - you have to take the dough out anyway in order to wash and oil the bowl for proving. The 'ear' means that you can't put cling film over the bowl to seal it for proving and I found my first batch didn't rise as much as I like. It makes a fairly small loaf (500g flour is about the largest it will take). It's probably better in an electric fan oven than my gas one (the open bits at the end burned a bit). I shall continue to use it for measuring and baking, but do the rest the old-fashioned way.
On the other hand the present of two Knit-Pro Symphonie knitting needles is working superbly.
The loaf came out ok - though Paul Hollywood would have poked it and made comments about 'part-baked dough'. The I put the following on Amazon.
This is designed to weigh the ingredients, mix them, prove the dough and go in the oven to bake. Like most multi-purpose things it does all these adequately but none well. It makes a very floppy bowl, (though light enough to use on an electronic scale), which is quite tricky to mix in (I used a spatula) and impossible to actually knead. I took the dough out and did it on my usual marble board - you have to take the dough out anyway in order to wash and oil the bowl for proving. The 'ear' means that you can't put cling film over the bowl to seal it for proving and I found my first batch didn't rise as much as I like. It makes a fairly small loaf (500g flour is about the largest it will take). It's probably better in an electric fan oven than my gas one (the open bits at the end burned a bit). I shall continue to use it for measuring and baking, but do the rest the old-fashioned way.
On the other hand the present of two Knit-Pro Symphonie knitting needles is working superbly.