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Original poster

To think using a bread maker is NOT making your own bread!?

104 replies

EdnaClouds · 23/02/2012 09:51

If one more person tells me they make their bread themselves when they actually use a machine I will scream. Seriously, I'm going to turn purple, steam will come out of my ears and my head will spin round.

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elizadoulalittle · 23/02/2012 10:13

Oh god, not the food police again. Hmm

FredFredGeorge · 23/02/2012 10:13

Do you have to grind your own flour? domesticate your own yeast? for it to be home made?

Asinine · 23/02/2012 10:16

I make lots of things at home, but I don't go on about it, I just think homemade tastes nicer and is cheaper, and often healthier.

I make yoghurt in a yoghurt maker, (that would annoy you too) it would be more authentic to put it in a bowl in the airing cupboard, but I would still say I make yoghurt if anyone actually asked.

Which they don't.

tantrumsandballoons · 23/02/2012 10:17

There's a jam setting on your bread maker???
I dont have a jam setting on my breadmaker ( that I use at home and therefore it's home made bread)
I want to make jam as well :(

SoupDragon · 23/02/2012 10:18

"make my own bread" with a packet mix makes me go Hmm but a bread machine is just a gadget. I decide the proportion of flour types, whether to use seeds, flavoured salt, cheese...

ScramblyEgg · 23/02/2012 10:18

Oh for goodness sake. It's homemade bread, it's just not handmade.

YABU

Sarcalogos · 23/02/2012 10:19
Biscuit

oh how I wish there was a bread emoticon

TunipTheVegemal · 23/02/2012 10:19

I like IvyKaty's post.
I think we should have a move towards telling people they're not really eating bread when they eat Chorleywood bread.
There is a serious point there actually because a lot of people develop intolerance to that and they think they are intolerant to all bread, but actually they can tolerate traditional slow-risen bread better - the yeast does something to the gluten that makes it easier to tolerate according to this book.

Chocladoodle · 23/02/2012 10:19

Tantrum - you beat me to it. Jam Setting!!! Time to upgrade my bread machine I think.

megapixels · 23/02/2012 10:19

YABU. Of course they're making their own bread if they use a breadmaker. I consider that I brush my own teeth, even though I use an electric toothbrush Hmm.

2rebecca · 23/02/2012 10:21

YABU, it's like saying you haven't made a cake yourself if you use an electric whisk to beat the sugar and butter with. Kneading bread is messy and boring. Labour saving devices are great.

conspire · 23/02/2012 10:22

I sew my own clothes using a machine and using bought fabric. Does that mean they are not homemade?

Faverolles · 23/02/2012 10:23

I have a jam setting! Why didn't I know that?

Lexilicious · 23/02/2012 10:24

Pah! Jam in a bread machine, whatever next. never knew I was such an earthy hippie for making jam in a pan with an acksheral thermometer

Special machines to make purée and smoothies rather than taking your socks off and squishing the fruit YourSelf??

This electricity fad will take us all to hell in a handcart I tell you (this post submitted by carrier pigeon btw)

hermionestranger · 23/02/2012 10:26

You must have a very empty life if something like this drives you mad!

Seriously get over yourself. Yabvvvvvvu.

MoreBeta · 23/02/2012 10:26

EdnaClounds - YABU. I bake my own bread in a breadmaker but also by hand dependiong on what I want to make. Its just a labour saving device like a washing machine or a food mixer surely?

Have you ever grown and milled wheat yourself? I have and believe me, its an awful lot of bother if you just want a loaf of bread so naturally most people just buy their flour.

OhdearNigel · 23/02/2012 10:27

I agree with you, OP, that putting some ingredients in a bread machine and pressing "go" is not making your own bread.

CremeEggThief · 23/02/2012 10:27

Sadly, the breadmaker is no longer with us, but there was indeed a jam/marmalade setting on it. I think it was a Morphy Richards one and it only cost me £35 brand new on eBay in 2005 (I remember all this because DH requested it as his birthday present. Seriously!), so it was probably about £50-60 in the shops.

OhdearNigel · 23/02/2012 10:28

Whoops, pressed enter too early

That said, I don't care enough to start an AIBu on it

MoreBeta · 23/02/2012 10:29

Moreover, they use machines in bread factories and in the most uber upmarket artisan bakeries too.

Chocladoodle · 23/02/2012 10:29

Faverolles - I'm away to double check mine.....

Original poster
EdnaClouds · 23/02/2012 10:30

You bunch of loons. When did you all get so serious!?

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tantrumsandballoons · 23/02/2012 10:30

Maybe I have a jam setting and I've never noticed??
I'm quite excited, will check after work.

SoupDragon · 23/02/2012 10:30

"putting some ingredients in a bread machine and pressing "go" is not making your own bread."

What is it then?