Baking: "Ah. So you're a waffle man."

[daiseechain]

 As promised, a report on the outcome of the breadmakers.

Both breadmakers work.

Neither caught fire. {insert applause here}

This was good.

The first test loaf was made in the cheaper quality breadmaker

Comments

[entropy_house]

*drool*

[daiseechain]

They tasted good, but I have to cut back on the carbs again now, hence the playing around with coconut flour. I've been using some of the recipes from Elena's Pantry.

[just_sue]

I love your Dalek cookies! *g*

I've never seen sunken bread from my breadmaker, but the first loaf I made in it was inedible due to my misreading of the recipe (I bunged in a tablespoon of salt instead of a teaspoon). *g*

[entropy_house]

I had a breadmaker that always flattened the bread. Sometimes they simply are defective.

[just_sue]

I shalol count myself lucky that mine seems pretty idiot proof! *g*

[entropy_house]

Actually, the first one I got wouldn't *heat*, I exchanged it for a second one that wouldn't *knead* and the third one I gave up on exchanging, it would produce doorstops. :^)

I now have a good one, but my local store only has expired yeast. I'll have to order some over the internet once I figure out where. :^)

[kazzy_cee]

Heeee - talkie toaster from Red Dwarf! :D

I must admit we don't use our bread maker to make a loaf because I hate the huge hole the stirrer makes in the finished product. So we make the dough and either pop it into a bread tin and cook it in the oven, or make rolls and do the same.

We do use it a lot though! :)

[daiseechain]

Yay! Someone recognised the quote!

That's what I figured I'd do with the lower quality breadmaker if it turns out this not-raising thing is a persistent problem. At least I can still set it to making up dough.

[ningloreth]

Green Tea Cupcakes! Green Tea Cupcakes! I have to find a recipe!

I love the daleks. It's nice to see that someone's embraced the new colours.

And the breadmaker experiments are impressive. The bread tends to climb out of mine, especially if I add olives.

[daiseechain]

I played with a few (they were being given as a gift to a friend for his birthday) before finally settling on adapting the chocolate cupcake recipe from Nigella Bites. I left out the cocoa, and added slightly more than the equivalent of ground green tea (I didn't have any matcha, which is usually what's recommended, so I opened up some green tea bags and ground the leaves in a mortar and pestle). I topped them with a glaze using green tea as a substitute for water.

I made the daleks specifically for eating while watching the show with friends. Eventually, by request, there were also old school gold and silver daleks, and some purple ones, but I seem to have lost the photos.

Olives! That's a really good idea. I'll try that next week. Why do you think it makes the bread expand more?

[ningloreth]

I think it may be something to do with the brine (though I do wash them).

Another good flavouring is fried onions and caraway seeds in white bread, which is the closest I've got to something I had in Poland.

I've got a new washing machine coming tomorrow, so the kitchen's out of bounds until 'the men' have been (because it's unnaturally tidy at the moment :-), but I'll have a go at some cupcakes on Friday.

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Mmmm, nameless cupcake.

Glad to hear your breadmakers are not instantly flammable. I had some qualms.

[daiseechain]

There seem to be a few nameless cupcakes in my photo files...

Qualms abounded here also. Thankfully they were... I was going to say groundless, but that's not exactly true is it? :-D