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Ah I was thinking cages. I've never attacked a bike with one, only an air
wrench.

 

When I get home (from skiing) I'll send you a link Pat has for a
no-kneeding bread recipe. Easy peasy and good results.

 

Thanks.

However, nothing will beat the convenience of chucking everything in
the breadmaker, switching it on and going off to do something
interesting while it does its stuff.

 

Thanks.

However, nothing will beat the convenience of chucking everything in
the breadmaker, switching it on and going off to do something
interesting while it does its stuff.
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Where do you get the ingredients? Specifically the yeast? When making
wine and looking for yeast I've been either looking for small one man
band shops in slightly dubious areas of town, or online. I know wine
yeast is different but I've never seen bread yeast or a box of
"everything you need to make bread" ingredients.

I had a half hearted bid on a breadmaker a couple of days ago, while
they can be had for around a tenner I might as well give it a go if the
ingredients are easy to get hold of.

 

Mike Buckley wrote:

You can buy it in supermarkets. Either dried with (surprisingly) the
flour. In store bakeries used to sell fresh yeast if you asked as well.

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Where on earth do you live? Baker's yeast should be available in just
about any supermarket, and I'd be surprised if you found any without
at least a couple of ready-to-bake bread mixes.

I can even get them in France these days, FFS.

 

Rangie wheel nuts (P38) should be about 80 lb/ft. Fucking things were
much tighter - torque wrench set to 180 was still clicking. Re-tightened
to 80 and the rattle gun whips them off and back on a treat.

 

I don't see the point of bread mixes at all.

Yes, and the onion, parmesan cheese, sun-dried tomatoes can all be
bought *as separate ingredients* and chucked in with the other bread
ingredients at the beginning.

Do this from the start. It's *really* easy and *much* better. Our
breadmaker came with, and I would assume most others will, a recipe
booklet with how to do this from scratch.

Paremesan & sun-dried tomato is a good one, as is beer bread, although
that's a Hairy Bikers recipe that we've just adopted for the breadmaker.

 

We get some cheap German ones from Aldi or Lidl. About 80c each, IIRC,
and good for two loaves. Cheaper and better than buying the bread
itself, much easier than measuring out various ingredients.

Although of course we do that too, but there's a time and a place for
everything, and when you're knackered and about to go to bed but want
some fresh bread ready for the morning, for example, the ready mix is
a godsend.

 

Hmmm...I'm not convinced. How long does it take to measure out some
flour, yeast, sugar, salt, butter & water? A few minutes, max.

And more importantly, IMO those extra few minutes are worth it for the
end result.

Still, ETTO.

 

What part of "knackered and about to go to bed" did you fail to
associate with "pissed as a newt"?

Not really. The bread mixes we use are very good, in a nice, ordinary,
fresh bread sort of way.

I don't go for exotic breads such as you mention up there anyway.
Bread is supposed to taste of bread, not poncy sun-dried tomatoes and
parmesan, IMO.

 

What Ace says. We play around with our own mixes and use Aldi, Lidl and
other local supermarket brands for convenience.

There is nothing like waking up to the smell of fresh bread in the
morning plus the smell fresh coffee to accompany it.

 

Chilli bread is something special and tastes extra special when toasted
with lots of butter spread on it.

 

heh, nailed.

Cool, OK. I did write both "IMO" and "ETTO"

But it's *lovely*. OK, I'm not going to make a ham sandwich out of
it...or maybe....

 

For fear of doing a Champ, it's only fucking bread ffs.

 

The international standard term is "tired and emotional".

 

Wrong.

It'd be like giving you a pint of John Smiths or Boddingtons and saying
"it's only fucking beer ffs".

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Mick Whittingham

Neither of which ever taste as good as the smell.

 

Er, beer's important. Bread's bread.

 

Like walking past a curry house.