Breadmaker needing more water than the recipes says

[Enko]

We have recently bought a new breadmaker as our old one had given up the ghost. It is a Sage one. We picked it as we have other sage products we are happy with. It seems to be a brand that works well for us.

The breadmaker is great apart from one thing we have noticed and that is it appears to need much larger quantities of liquid to what our old machines did. (we have had brad makers for 15 years +) today I have used a recipe that calls for 1 scant cup of water I have added 1.5 and it is borderline if we actually ought to put more in. I have made this recipe before in our old machine and not needed to add additional water.

Anyone else experienced this? Is it just it kneads better than our old machines so more liquid is soaked into the dough/flour? If I don't add additional I end up with a crumbled mess I have tried to simply not add to see what happens but I do not get an edible loaf from it.

How much flour is in your recipe? Our (Kenwood) breadmaker uses 300ml of water for 400g of flour which produces a perfect loaf. I cup = 250 ml.

Mine uses 340ml for a large loaf.

This was a small loaf if I make a large it suggests 420 ml of water (1 1/3 generous cups) I am adding at least a full cup more

I have made this loaf many times on our old machine (a kenwood) and this is the one I made last night and added a full extra cup to

I always add about 10% more

That looks like a pretty big loaf; the largest my Kenwood makes uses 600g flour and 400 ml water. Maybe try a recipe that came with the machine, and be prepared to experiment a bit. For our 400g loaf now I put in half the stated amount of yeast and no sugar at all. My previous Kenwood asked for skimmed milk powder. I stopped adding it, with no loss of quality. I notice with our new machine it doesn't appear in the ingredients now.