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

[EdnaClouds]

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.

My SILs in Algeria hand make their own bread and bake it in a wood fired mud oven they build. Its fab.

So pah! to all you jam making breadmaker types...

Obviously I would do the same but its a bit of a bugger trying to fit a hand made mud oven in a flat. oh and I can't be arsed

No - just checked - Definitely no jam setting

Drat I was hoping you were serious OP. Then I was going to start my own thread about: How dare people say they have a home cooked Sunday Roast and they don't even butcher the meat themselves, never mind the store bought potatoes!

cremeEggThief - there is a jamsetting on a breadmaker?
I can finally throw out give away the copper jam making pot, that i keep stubbing my toe on.

eBay here I come...

I have an app for making jam on my smart phone

so stick that up your jumper

I see what you mean, but where does home made stop.
I've a crap wrist so I'd kneed with my kenwood chef.

It was easy to make decent rolls at school because they had a temp controlled proving cupboard.
I don't and that's why the bread makers so good, I have no where that's temp. is warm enough and constant.

ivykaty44 -

however the suggestions of using 5yr old to knead dough are good. Save her using DS's face to pummel.

What an odd thing to get so angry about

yeah and what about those people who use ovens instead of their own body heat like a bird with an egg - BIG FAT CHEATERS!!!!!

I am grinning like a fool at the inanity of the OP's ire.

It's like saying people don't make their own clothes if they buy fabric woven by someone else, use a pattern created by someone else and use a sewing machine to assemble the garment. Lazy bastards.

You do actually get a different flavour when using fresh yeast as opposed to dried- but how many people can get hold of fresh yeast in the UK these days? I haven't seen it for years.

I've also made jam in my breadmaker, twice, so there! First time I didn't cut up the fruit small enough. Second time, I mashed the fruit with the potato masher, which DM told me does when she makes jam on the stove.

The breadmaker jam tasted just lovely. It's more like a compote, than jam, though. I'm going to try adding more Certo than the second time, the next time I make some.

cory, you can get 'dried active yeast' in a tin, which has a different flavour compared to the fast action yeast.

cory - you can ask for fresh yeast at the bread counter in sainsbury - they will sell you a small amount for 20p or so

I do actually butcher my own meat and spin my own yarn to make clothes.

So I'm not making meringues if I use an electric whisk?

Or my own soup if I chuck it in a blender?

WHO CARES?

I get my flour delivered from a local mill - the man is very lovely but reminds me of this chap

but this mill is far cheaper than the supermarket so it makes sense to get it delivered to the door

So I'm not making meringues if I use an electric whisk?

It really depends on what you are using the whisk for and how the whisk feels about this use, if you or your whisk need to talk let me know...

get a life, you sound like a snobby bore

I get fresh yeast from the bakers counter in Tescos, you have to ask for it though it's not advertised, they sell me about 100g for 30p, it freezes well. I let the bread machine do the first knead and rise and then knock it back and do the second rise in the airing cupboard in a loaf tin and bake it in the oven. I certainly claim to make my own bread, I fail to see how it could be that different using a mixer to knead it, except that I'd have to stand there supervising it. I bet if I asked the baker in Tescos if he makes his own bread he'd say yes, and he's definitely not kneading it by hand, there's a great big industrial mixer for that.

Thanks ivy. I think my eggs are the ones that could do with counselling. My whisk keeps beating the cr@p out of them.

I have found my whisk gets the eggs all eggstatic and they start foaming a lot the more the whisk beats them, if you need some sweetner try a little sugar and I have found icing sugar does stick the situation and makes it all a bit chewier to swallow.