Baking your own bread

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

I am wondering if anybody here also bakes his/her own bread??
Last mothers day, I got a breadbaking machine from my hubby!!
This is it:

It is so easy to bake a bread!! I just add the ingredients, choose a program (white bread, dark, other...), close the lid, and push on the "Start" button.
A few hours later, the bread is ready!! The machine is doing all the work for me!!

This was my very first bread:


the next one was much higher


and the next one was super high!!


one slice of white bread

[Edwina's Secretary]

Lovely! How do you slice just a nice thin piece of bread?

[Karen]

Looks yummy! I grew up baking bread, in a regular oven, though. My mother loved her bread machine when she got one, though!

[carole]

looks yummy, i have often toyed with the idea of getting a bread maker, nothing like freshly baked bread, however our local baker called bakers delight makes the most fresh delicious bread with no preservatives etc, at a cost i can afford ,so i have given up on the idea, but it does look very inviting.

I think you can buy a plastic slicer type thing, which you can put your bread on and slice it to the thickness you want.

I have a feeling if i baked my bread , a loaf would not even last a day .

[Lady's Human]

I'd rather bake bread the old way, but I completely understand the love of bread machines.

I just haven't found one that turns out regular loaves that I like. Besides, the kids like the yeast farting. (they help make the bread, and when asked what makes it rise, that's how I described what the yeast's function is)

Want to teach LOH how to slice bread, please? Every time she slices bread for sandwiches it looks like something out of the Art Deco movement.

[kittycats_delight]

I bake my own bread. I do it by hand though. I don't use a machine. I made my first batch of homemade bread when I was 9. My grandmother supervised and tuned the oven on for me. She didn't want me climbing on the stove but I did everything else. I was proud as a peacock. I bake bread here in Italy in much smaller batches than I used to at home. When I would do it at home I would make a huge batch that gave me around 10 - 12 loaves and we would freeze it. I usually do 3 loaves here at a time or 1 loaf and 12 large dinner rolls. I do that once sometimes twice a week. I was given a bread machine a few years ago but I tend to use it to make pizza dough or jam. It has several setting one of them being for jam. So, I also make my own jam usually once a month. I do a batch of jam that yields 6 bottles and by the time I give you to Guido's aunt and Giulio (BIL) and Guido have a pig out on it there is 3 left by the end of the first week which lasts the rest of the month. If it comes to baking or cooking of any kind I like to try everything. I adore cooking.

[Cataholic]

I marvel at people that make their own bread!!! It seems so complicated and hard. I have a bread maker (that my sister gave my mother, and she gave it to me) but I can't find a good recipe that turns out evenly done/formed bread.

I must say, that is the slimmest slice of bread I have ever seen, other than Pepperidge Farms...LOLOL! (Maya and Inka's Mommy, that is a US brand of bread).

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

Lovely! How do you slice just a nice thin piece of bread?

I have my own home breadslice-machine! It looks like these 2





Today I am baking a "cranberry & nuts bread"!! There is already a fantastic smell in the kitchen!!