Sunday, August 9, 2009

How A Modern Bread Maker Makes Baking An Easy Process

By Chris Channing

Bread makers sound easy enough to understand. You put ingredients in, and you get bread out- what's not to love? The science behind how your bread maker operates might actually be more complex than what you thought- involving modern equipment and technologies.

Bread makers weren't around decades ago- so why start using them now rather than do it the "old fashioned" way? The answer is simple: you save a lot of time and effort by using a bread maker. The machine can control the mixing of ingredients, the rising, baking, and everything else necessary. The only effort you need to put in is to provide the right ingredients.

The most strength-intensive part of making bread was once kneading it. Getting the dough to the right consistency involved a little elbow grease, as the dough's viscosity became increasingly harder to work with. Bread machines today will instead do the hard work for you and only require that you put in the ingredients in which it will knead. In the end you save effort and time and let technology take care of it.

We don't bake the bread just yet; we still have to rise the bread. Once this was done through applying heat to the dough by using the oven. Note that this is just an elevated temperature- it is certainly not baking the dough just yet. The bread maker should handle the rise of the bread automatically, as well as know when to start baking the bread that is now ready.

Finally we bake the bread by raising the temperature to its peak value of the process. Sadly, you will have to intervene here and tell the bread maker at what temperature to bake the bread and for how long. Because you could have greatly different types of dough and portions, this is a step that the cook has to do. Considering this is the final step until the process is over, this step shouldn't be too much of a nag to the cook.

Baking a good loaf of bread doesn't require that you buy the most expensive machine you can find. Instead, you need only to find a machine that is moderately priced and has good reviews among others. The price should be easily justified once you see how easy the baking process truly is. And once you start baking your own bread regularly, you can save money on food costs from that point forward.

In Conclusion

You won't have to conduct your search long to find a bread maker that would suit you. Many retail stores stock them, from cooking stores to department stores. For the best selection you can go online to see how much the bread maker is going to cost you and to compare.

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