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You might be wondering why use a machine when you could do it by hand? The truth is, using a machine makes baking easier and faster. For example, things like kneading dough or mixing ingredients are simpler with an appliance designed specifically for those tasks.
If you just bought a bread machine and are looking for a thorough guide on how to make bread in a bread maker, you’ve come to the right place! Scroll down to read!
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How To Make Bread In a Bread Maker?
Before you start making bread, make sure that you have all the required ingredients!
Ingredients
- Flour
- Milk
- Olive Oil
- Sugar
- Salt
- Yeast
Yes, there is no milk or butter required on our ingredients list for making bread!
You don’t need to make bread in a traditional way!
Steps
After you’ve prepared all the necessary ingredients and tools, let’s learn how to make bread in bread machine now!
Step 1: Measuring And Making The Flour
The first thing to remember about measuring flour is its much more dense consistency than other ingredients. The proper way of measuring this ingredient is by aerating or fluffing up your dough and mixing well before spooning it into cups for accurate measurements. Make sure you aerate the flour, or else the bread will end up with dry dough!
Measuring your flour in the cup can be tricky, but it’s not impossible! Scooping with care so that you don’t end up with more than what is needed for bread-making. We use ⅓-cup measurements when weighing the ingredients out on a scale instead of using cups to avoid over-packing. Otherwise, you can choose to weigh the flour.
A delicious loaf of bread from the bread machine.
Step 2: Making the Bread In the Bread Maker
After finishing the measuring step, here is the process:
- Pour 200ml of water into the bottom of the bread maker.
- Put the other ingredients into the machine (except the yeast). Then pour the yeast at the end.
- Put the lid on your bread machine and select a bread setting.
- The process will take approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes to 3 hours, depending on the bread setting (including kneading the bread).
- Put it on a cooling rack, then put it on the breadboard.
- Once the bread has completely cooled down, slice it.
Tips and Tricks of Making Bread in A Bread Maker
Bread machine kneading dough
- Using certain ingredients like bread flour will bring the best tasting and most structurally baked goods. Bread flours have a higher percentage of gluten than all-purpose, making them more resilient and taller when mixed with water. If you preserve flour in the refrigerator or freezer, put your flour at room temperature.
- For the best result, add the yeast above the flour at the final stage and do not let it in contact with wet ingredients.
- For bread containing whole grain or rye flour, consider adding a gluten ingredient to improve the texture.
- Put the salt listed in a recipe. Salt has many uses in the kitchen, but its most important job is to control yeast. If your diet doesn’t allow for low sodium foods, then start by removing just a little bit at first.
- The use of yeast in bread making is also critical. They feed on sugar, producing carbon dioxide gas that makes dough rise and gives the final product a signature flavour profile – from savoury or sweet as desired by you! Do not forget to store this ingredient properly to keep it fresh; we recommend keeping it in a cool place.
- Tired of cleaning up after your bread machine? Spray nonstick cooking spray on the kneading paddle before adding ingredients, and then wipe clean. A quick spray with a bit of butter will ensure that even sticky dough comes off perfectly every time.
- To keep your machine clean, fill the pan with hot soapy water to remove baked goods immediately after use. If you have a kneading paddle that came out of the bread-making process (and sometimes even if it doesn’t), soak this separately from other pieces because some parts are dishwasher safe, while others are not.
Making bread looks so easy now with a bread maker
Final Thoughts
Surely, now you’ve learned how to make bread in a bread maker.
Bread maker machines are a fantastic invention for people who love to bake but don’t have the time. They allow you to make bread without all of the fuss and mess required in traditional baking methods, and they also give your dough just enough time to rise before it starts cooking. Thank you for reading!