I will have sat in the circle, held my hand up and said….Hello, my name is Pompeyexile, and I am an automatic bread maker user. Luckily though, those meetings worked, and I have long since kicked the bread maker habit and have my 20 plus years token to prove it.
Arguments for using such a machine… I am old, have bad arthritis and cannot knead dough. I cannot bake. I just cannot be bothered. It is the only way of waking up to the smell of freshly baked bread.
All of those may well be true, but no matter what anyone says, bread made the ‘old-fashioned’ way, knocks anything made in a bread maker into a cocked hat.
Cannot physically knead the dough? Well most stand mixers do that, which is why they have a dough hook. Haven’t got one? Well, there are hundreds of ‘No knead’ recipes out there which work great.
You say you cannot bake? If you can read and follow a recipe to the letter, YES YOU CAN! Recipes are tried and tested. I have never tried a recipe and had it fail… as long as I followed it to the letter! That is not to say I have liked everything I have baked, because like you, I have personal tastes, be it about flavour or texture etc.
The only ones I cannot argue against are, you can’t be bothered and waking up to freshly baked bread. Oh, yes I can….
MOVE NEXT DOOR TO A CHUFFIN GREGGS!
Thankyouandgoodnight
Knocked this on up a couple of days ago. Half white, half brown. Chuffin lovely!
