Home Bread-Bakers v006.n014.4
[Advanced]

BREAD Digest V6 #13

laura.brito@llpb.com (Laura Brito)
Tue, 04 Apr 1995 18:06:00 -0600
v006.n014.4
B > The best thing I ever did for my bread-slicing was to buy a big knife.
B > I'd been using steak knives or dinner knives to cut bread, and often
B > I'd end up with squished, feathered, messy slices of bread.  A big bread
B > knife (of the cheap variety) can cut all the way across the loaf at
B > once, which makes much neater slices.

I found a really excellent item, at Walmart (only thing I can go to 
around here <G>) I bought an electric knife with a holder for the 
bread that will make slices of bread that are exact and uniform! 
really super, expensive though at $30

B > Laura Brito says that using exact amounts of room temperature ingredients
B > is very important for her Hitatchi.
B > 
B > Interesting... my Welbilt (until it died) consistently made good bread
B > with ingredients that mostly came right out of the fridge and weren't
B > measured terribly carefully.  Maybe the cold ingredients didn't matter
B > because it has two kneading cycles, with a rising time in between, which
B > lets the dough come up to room temperature.  (Does the Hitachi do that?)
B > And maybe the imprecise measuring didn't matter because I generally
B > checked the consistency of the bread as it's kneading and add liquid or
B > flour until it looks right.

I have found that it will mix better if room temp, I don't think that 
the exact ingredients will bother the loaf as much, but the Hitachi 
also has the two kneading cycles and a rising time in between...maybe 
it isn't as warm? I guess that could be it? Checking is important and 
alot of people don't check (at I think so hehe) boy do I sound 
opinionated! hehe


Laura Brito  ____          ___           __----__   _/\   Fido 1:284/63
Sysop of  _/^ __ ^\_    /~^_/ | 15    )/^        ^-^ _/ Voice 417-683-6196
Laura's_/^ _/^  ^\_ ^\ | ./  /~Lines /(            _/\. Fax   417-683-6187
Lair _/^_/^--_     ^\_^\-__-~      _/( \         _/  ./ BBS   417-683-5534
BBS./^_/|  \_ ~\  19  \_^\_      /^ _(  ~-_    _/ \./\  Administrator of
 _/^_/   \_  ~\ \ Gigs ^\__^\../^_/^ )\    ~~~~    _\/   ThrobNet Adult
<__/       ~\__\|         ^\.__./^      ~---____--~~\ laura.brito@llpb.com

 * Izzy: You can watch TV at 3 am, no one else is watching it then!
---
 ~ RoseReader 2.52a P004051 Entered at [LAURA'S LAIR]