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Bread Maker Suggestions
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Reading Jean Beswick's Blog has gotten me to thinking about a breadmaker. I would love to start using it now, and then eventually take down to Cattitude for when we are cruising. Certainly easier to carry supplies, than multiple loaves of store bought bread. Any suggestion for a reasonably priced unit? And who out there has some good recipes for breads?
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Re: Bread Maker Suggestions
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01/28/2010 11:15 PM
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When I had a bread maker, probably 20 years ago... I only used it to mix the ingredients... Then did the rising in a cold oven... and made the bread in meatloaf pans... I hate those round loaves from a bread machine! esp. with th hole in the middle! Now I use our Kitchen-Aid mixer... if I ever make a yeast anything! It's too much of a PITA... I'd just buy bread wherever you are...
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Re: Bread Maker Suggestions
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01/28/2010 11:50 PM
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Peconic, I think you missed the point of the original post. They are looking to experiment with something they can use on the boat. All the extra gear you suggest doesn't work onboard. Besides, bread turns into a science experiment pretty fast if you buy in quantity to last a whole week or more. I think a breadmaker would be a great item if you were aboard alot. I was initially surprise, reading Jean's blog, about the breadmaker but it makes a lot of sense. I'd try emailing Jean to see what she does for recipes or if she is using mixes.
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Re: Bread Maker Suggestions
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01/29/2010 12:29 AM
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I understand that... and being a lifetime sailor... I think a bread machine would not be the best way to go... too much work & time invested, for too little gain... Just my own opinion...
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Re: Bread Maker Suggestions
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01/29/2010 09:19 AM
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Brian--but you weren't LIVING on your boat, and possibly can't get to somewhere to get bread for a few days.
Regardless, could we get back to the original question--recommendations for bread makers, anyone?? And bread recipes???
Carol Hill
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Re: Bread Maker Suggestions
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01/29/2010 10:36 AM
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I *DO* live on my boat. A breadmaker is not a good match to living aboard unless you are tied to a dock and plugged in all the time. Even then, they take an obscene amount of space.
I make bread by hand. With only a little bit of practice it takes about the same amount of time to get the dough in the first rise as to load up a bread-machine. I put the dough in the engine room to rise - it's always warm in there even if it has been a while since I ran anything.
Punching the dough down and making loaves for the second rise is trivial.
On a crewed charter (that is what you do isn't it?) there is an entertainment value for your guests of making bread by hand. Heck, I entertain myself making bread. *grin*
sail fast and eat well, dave S/V Auspicious
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Re: Bread Maker Suggestions
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Hey Brian: I think you miss the point...we are "stinkpotters", electric and appliances are a MUST for me. I love to cook, have a microwave, 4 burner stove and oven, food processor, toaster oven, blender, mixer, etc. onboard already. What is one more appliance. It would just seem easier to make bread than to have to buy multiple loaves in the store and freeze them. We only shop once or twice in a months time. Everything that possibly can, will get frozen. Bread takes so much room, along with hamburger rolls and hotdog rolls. Would love to just make what we need. I have looked at the Sunbeam and the Oster. They are on the low price end, but sometimes the appliances don't like the invertor on the boat and are killed by it. Would rather try to use an inexpensive once to start. Any opinions on these 2 units. And, lets hear some recipes.
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Re: Bread Maker Suggestions
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01/29/2010 10:42 AM
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Carol_Hill said: Brian--but you weren't LIVING on your boat, and possibly can't get to somewhere to get bread for a few days.
Regardless, could we get back to the original question--recommendations for bread makers, anyone?? And bread recipes??? Carol, like I said, that is only my opinion... and yes... I have lived on a sailboat, once for 5 weeks...
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Re: Bread Maker Suggestions
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01/29/2010 10:49 AM
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Carolyn, Then your experience (on your "stinkpot", lol) will be like home... I hate breadmakers... they are worthless, IMO... Better to get a Kitchen-Aid Mixer, and do it yourself... and a Kitchen-Aid Mixer takes about the same amount of space (or less) than a breadmaker... a Kitchen-Aid Mixer is much quicker to use... and is a multi-taskers, rather than having only one reason for existing... and the bread baked in a pan (or a french bread mold), won't have that stinking hole in the middle... Both a breadmachine & a Kitchen-Aid will have the same ingredients for the bread... I'd look at websites (like www.allrecipes.com) for good recipes... You might want to make a good sour dough starter, and keep it alive during your travels, also... (pretty easy to do)... fresh baked sour dough bread is the best for making baguettes, dinner rolls & sandwich bread!
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Re: Bread Maker Suggestions
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01/29/2010 11:38 PM
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Yeah, I saw that. Looking at it, couldn't figure if it said $99 or $599!! Still trying to figure out where the h*ll you put a washing machine on a sailboat!! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />
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Re: Bread Maker Suggestions
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01/30/2010 10:27 AM
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I looked up "Twin tub washing machines" and they are portables using low amounts of electricity and seem to be priced around $299. Small sized and hold 10 lbs. I guess when all you wear is swimsuits and tshirts, you don't need anything much larger. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Laugh.gif" alt="" /> They must have got a screaming deal on a close out or something.
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Re: Bread Maker Suggestions
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01/30/2010 11:37 AM
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Baking bread in a pressure cooker works without the seal and essentially turns the PC into an oven. Same problem (IMHO) as breadmakers - the loaves look wrong.
If you spray flour out of your KA stand mixer you are either dumping in too much flour at a time or running the mixer too fast.
Granted I am a tidy person to the point of OCD *grin* but I make bread by hand and the mess is limited to the extent of my cutting board, although sometimes it drifts over the side when I back while at sea.
Like you, I use my freezer heavily. We ate bread out of the freezer recently while offshore with winds 30-35 and seas 12-15' for three days between Marsh Harbour and Beaufort NC. It's good to cook ahead!
If you plan to run a bread-maker off your batteries through an inverter you better have a really big bank. I have 675 Ah and wouldn't do that. If you insist on a machine plan your baking around generator runs for battery charging and running the a/c.
sail fast and eat well,
dave
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Re: Bread Maker Suggestions
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01/30/2010 06:44 PM
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annie, what mixer blade are you using? I have never had a problem with flour and the dough hook, nor the cake paddle... the whisk, on the otherhand, will throw it all over... for yeast doughs, the dough hook is really the only one to use...
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Re: Bread Maker Suggestions
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01/31/2010 05:54 PM
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CaWino said: I looked up "Twin tub washing machines" and they are portables using low amounts of electricity and seem to be priced around $299. Small sized and hold 10 lbs. I guess when all you wear is swimsuits and tshirts, you don't need anything much larger. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Laugh.gif" alt="" /> They must have got a screaming deal on a close out or something. Nope.. That's just the price down here in Panama. Plenty of twin-tub (washer, spin dry)available for around the $100 mark. Like the breadmaker, the washer uses a small enough amount of power to run on the 2000 watt 110 volt inverter. The machine is big enough to hold a couple of bed sheets at a time, a few towels and loads of tee-shirts/shorts. That's all you need when cruising ( except for Jean's Dior frocks and the like naturally)
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Re: Bread Maker Suggestions
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02/01/2010 07:53 PM
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Yep... gluten is readily available at any supermarket around here...
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Re: Bread Maker Suggestions
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02/01/2010 08:26 PM
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Temery said: Hi Dawn, where did your Hubby find Gluten? and do you know how much $ it was? I've only looked at Stater Bros so far (a local grocery chain) but no luck.... Most have answered already, but yes, we found it in the health food section of our local grocery store chain. Well worth the price of $2.25, we add a bit to each loaf for extra fluffiness to the loaf.
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Re: Bread Maker Suggestions
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02/02/2010 11:52 AM
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Brian, when you make dough in your breadmaker, how long do you bake it in the oven and at what temperature?? Thanks.
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