Does anyone have a fail-safe bread machine recipe before I throw the fecking thing out the window??

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I have tried so many recipes and have a success rate of about 1 in 4. Many times I end up with a rock hard but just about edible lump but at worst a load of brown pebbles.

Anyone got any suggestions? Am close to giving up on it!

Thanks

no help, but been there! Got rid of mine as the loaves i made were really nice but on about 50% of the time, otherwise like you, bricks!

not had brown pebbles though, must admit

Yes so disappointing to wake up to the smell of fresh bread run to the machine and find bits of burnt brown stuff!

I would have given up but am living in the US and just cannot find bread that isn't sweet / spongy / full of weird stuff.

Have you tried those packets of bread mix? (The ones that are irritatingly too big for one loaf in my machine, but not so big you can make two loaves...)

checks breadmaker at back of cupboard

Don't try to make wholemeal loaves, always do 50 /50 white and wholemeal flour.

I do :
1 sachet of yeast in first
250 g of white
250 g of wholemeal
1 tablespoon of sugar
1 teaspoon of salt
25 grams of butter
320 mls of water

On basic setting, medium crust. Never fails

I've very rarely had any problems (and then only because I forgot a vital ingredient) with a Panasonic bread maker. I just use a basic white/wholemeal/granary recipe for a small loaf:
12 oz flour
1/2 tsp dried yeast (type suitable for breadmakers)
1/2 tsp salt
240-270 ml water (more water if wholemeal than for white)
1 tbs oil or 1/2 oz butter.
In a Panasonic, a small loaf takes 4 hours (for white bread)' 5 hours for whole meal or granary or a mix.

OLKN I think the bread mixes here might be the same as the bread on offer - full of sweetners etc.

Jojay have tried yours so we'll see. Will try Lilymaid's next!

3/4 teaspoon fast yeast
200g white bread flour
200g wholemeal bread flour
1 teaspoon yeast
1 dessertspoon sugar
15-20g butter (I just use a know of butter and accept anything in this rage )
300g water (yes, grams. I weigh the water)

4 hour basic programme.

1.5 tsp bread maker yeast
500g bread flour (400g white, 100g brown is nice)
1.5tsp salt
1tsp sugar
1oz butter
350ml water

Yeast in first. Water in last.

A knob of butter

I use 1 tsp fast yeast, 250g brown bread flour, 250 g white bread flour, 1 tsp salt and 12 oz water and it comes out perfect on a medium crust setting - takes 2 hrs 53 mins. I hate the recipes that came with it - all that dried milk powder and sugar - yuck

OMG the pressure!!!

Hope it turns out ok - if not blame the breadmaker

I should have said to use strong flour. I'm sure you did....?!

Yes used bread flour

Looking good so far - ready in an hour or so.

Fingers crossed!

What type of breadmaker is it, most recipes on my Panasonic work well, apart from a few granary soggy messes lately. Like a few others I would recommend half wholemeal and half white bread, although the ciabatta recipe always comes out well so far.

Let me know if you still need more recipes. Good luck for this one.

Mine only works with the recipes that come with it the most successful of them being the sandwich loaf, the french bread and the malt loaf/raisinbread - oh and pizza dough - our order goes water, salt, sugar, oil, skimmed milk etc then flour and finally yeast...

Well its ready! Its looks and tastes like bread!

Hooray! Thanks Jojay and thanks everyone else I shall try a few to see what works best. My faith is restored!

Phew! What a relief! So glad it turned out ok

Could the problem have been you didn´t separate the yeast from the liquid? ie you have to put the yeast in, then layer of dry ingrediants before liquid.. If the yeast mixes with liquid too soon or with the salt too soon, doesn´t it die and so awful bread..? Pls correct if I´m wrong!

I use my loads but only the dough cycle. I find that any recipe basically seems to work if I just use the machine to make the dough and let it rise, then I shape and cook it in the oven. Today I made doughnut dough then fried it and it was delish. My new recipe (obsession!) is the Delia recipe for pitta bread which I do on the dough cycle then bake in a hot oven. Any loaves I have made which actually bake in the machine have been crap but it does kneed and prove beautifully

We do this 'seedy' bread 3 times a week

320 ml water
2 tbs honey
4 tsp oil
200 g strong wholemeal bread flour
200 g strong white bread flour
30 g oats
30 g sunflower seeds
30 g pumpkin seeds
2.5 tsp poppy seeds
2 tbs linseeds
0.5 tsp salt
1.5 tsp dry yeast for breadmaker

Bake on wholemeal bread cycle and medium brown crust. Yumm with lightly salted butter.