Recipe This | How To Make Bread In A Bread Maker (2024)

How To Make Bread In A Bread Maker.Delicious moist bread cooked at home in the bread makermachine. The easiest basic bread maker recipe you will ever find, and it willteach you everything you need to know about how to make bread in a bread maker.

Making Bread InA Bread Maker

We had abread maker machinemany years ago. In the end it was sold and only used about twice. As I recall it was a wedding present when we got married in the beginning of 2003.

It was a great bread machine, it just came along at a time, when we were just not that into making our own bread.

In fact, back then we had that shameful processed foods diet. Most of our food came from Aldis and it would involve every type of frozen breaded chicken and fish that you could think of.

It was then served with frozen chips or even vegetables from a can.

Clearly, we were young then anddidn’t know much better!

But in late 2017, we bought anotherbread maker. This time we knew we would make use of it and that the bread makerwould make delicious cheap bread for us and our family.

Not just for a cheap loaf of bread, but also for other things too such as making bread maker pizza dough.

We got our bread maker in the Black Friday Deals. I call this my electric buying time as its when I buy vast amounts of electricals, when they are at their best price.

During the 2017 Black Friday Deals we got our bread maker, a new laptop and new electrical presents for the kids for Christmas.

When we got our bread maker out,we set to work. We read through the instructions and thought to ourselves thatthe art of how to make bread in a bread maker, must be so much moredifficult than this.

Were we missing something? It seems not as our bread was soon out of the bread maker, being sliced and then served with melted butter on top.

Just because warm bread with melted butter on is so amazing!

We have tweaked it a little. In fact, we are here today in 2020 with more info, a better recipe and lots of great tips for using a bread maker.

After all, we have had almost 2.5 years with our bread maker now.

But this tweaked recipe is the BEST when it comes tohow to make bread in a bread maker.

So, enjoy and let the freshly homemade bread smell, take over your kitchen the way it has taken over ours.

Do I Need ABread Maker To Make Bread?

Technically,no.

You can of course make your own bread at home. But let me tell you now it takes a while. With making your own bread without a bread maker you are talking about 3 hours.

The time taken to mix ingredients, to knead, to knead some more, to allow it to prove. And the list goes on and on.

But if youwant to make bread on a regular basis then you NEED a bread maker.

They don’t cost the earth and its like owning an instant pot. That’s because just like the instant pot pressure cooker, you literally dump and start.

Dump the ingredients into the bread maker, press the bread button and come back to perfectly cooked homemade bread.

The timeto cook a good bread loaf is 1 hour and 48 minutes. But note that it is JUST3 minutes of prep. Unlike making your own bread where you have a lot of preptime.

If you don’t yet have a bread maker this is the one we recommend you purchase. If you click here you can get the current price and read up on the reviews.

Can You MakeBread With Plain Flour In A Bread Maker?

Absolutely!BUT let me tell you now when you make bread with plain flour in a breadmaker, it will NEVER taste as good as making bread with a quality strongbread flour.

A bit likethe quality of the taste between organic food and cheap food. You can alwaystaste the difference and you get what you pay for.

I have made bread in the bread maker more times with cheap plain flour than I have with quality flour.

But now what I do is wait until one of the expensive bread flour brands has a sale and bulk buy.

Here isthe branded bread flour I use the most:

This waspurchased on yellow sticker clearance, meaning that it was reduced in pricebecause the bag was slightly torn.

What Do You NeedTo Make Bread In A Bread Maker?

Firstly, agood bread maker is essential, and some people like to have a few bread maker accessoriesto use in their day to day bread making.

Beyond thebread maker, these accessories are not essential, but they make making bread inthe bread maker EASIER:

• Homemade Bread Bags
• Bread Slicer & Storage Container
• Bread Maker Cover

Though outof those 3, if I was going to choose just ONE it would be the breadslicer and storage. We have these in the Milner kitchen, and they cut perfectlysliced homemade bread.

Another option that many people like to buy is their own homemade bread mix.

Where everything is mixed for you and you just have your wet ingredients left to load into the bread maker. Here is an example of one.

Ingredients ToMake Bread In A Bread Maker

Once youhave your bread maker setup in place it is all about the ingredients to makebread in a bread maker.

You willbe pleased to know that many of these ingredients you will have readily availablein your kitchen.

• Flour
• Milk
• Olive Oil
• Sugar
• Salt
• Yeast

Now you will be surprised to see that there is no milk power and no butter on the ingredients list for our bread maker bread.

Well let me tell you now that our first version of bread maker bread did include these.

Butwhat we have found from making bread in the bread maker is that:

• Using milk powder isexpensive and leaves the bread having a taste that is too milk heavy.
• Using extra virginolive oil instead of butter makes it lighter, more moist and OMG the taste isspectacular.

Plus, apart from the yeast, doesn’t everyone carry the rest of the ingredients?

Making it perfect for when you didn’t have time to go grocery shopping and need something to eat last minute.

How To MakeBread In A Bread Maker?

Makingbread in a bread maker is so SIMPLE you could teach your kids to do it.Its so easy all you do is this:

1. Load the water intoyour bread maker first.
2. Add in everythingelse apart from the yeast.
3. Add the yeast on topand choose your favourite bread setting.
4. Come back later whenit beeps to heavenly smelling fresh bread.

How To MakeBread Maker Bread More Moist?

The secret to making bread maker bread more moist is to use extra virgin olive oil. It gives the bread an amazing moist texture and the bread doesn’t feel heavy.

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500g Bread Maker Recipe

Normallywhen we make bread in the bread maker, we will make the standard 2lb loaf. Atjust short of a kilo this is the perfect size for making for a family of five.

But if youwant to make a 500g bread maker recipe, then simply half all of ouringredients.

Follow ourbread maker recipe to the letter, just half everything and use the one pound or500g bread setting on your bread maker.

Bread Maker Cost Per Loaf?

I thought it would fun to comparenotes and to see just how cheap our bread maker bread is, compared to buyingshop bought bread.

Firstly, the price of a largeloaf of bread is about 1,99€ a loaf. Or this is discounted down to half price(or slightly less) if they have a deal on it. This bread is on pink sticker.This means it is close to its sell by date and must be used very soon.

This is about the same size ofone of our loaves that we have just made. So, for an equal price compare weneed to be making our bread for a lot less than the usual price of 1,99€ for itto be worth our while.

How To Make Bread In A BreadMaker Ingredients Cost Per Loaf:

• Plain Flour = 0,18€
• Sugar = 0,05€
• Extra Virgin Olive Oil = 0,13€
• Milk = 0,02€
• Salt = 0,005
• Yeast = 0,07€
• Total Cost Per Bread Loaf =0,45€/$0.52
• Total Cost Per Serving = 0,11€/$0.13

Or if you use a premium quality flour such asAllinsons, then the price goes up to 99 cent a loaf. But if you compare the 99cent a loaf to a premium braqnd of bread you are still better off.

Wow. I mean how can something sodelicious that tastes so luxurious just cost 11 cents per person. Thenif you compare it to the 1,99 cent price that we are currently buying asame sized bread loaf, this is a great saving and makes you realise just howbig the mark up is on supermarket bread.

I should also mention that thebread I photographed at the supermarket was the cheap as chips variety, soimagine how much you would have paid for the branded bread.

If you haven’t done so yet, thenyou seriously need to be following ourhow to make bread in a bread makerrecipe,just to see how cheap and amazing it really is!

Plus, remember how good homemadebread tastes compared to shop bought!

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