KYHeirloomer wrote:I don't use a bread machine for three reasons:
1. Space. Just don't have room for one.
2. I find working with dough to be somewhat theraputic.
3. A bread machine limits what I can make, particularly as I get more and more involved with delayed fermentation and the use of preferments. And, as you noticed, you are limited in shapes.
1. Space. Just don't have room for one.
2. I find working with dough to be somewhat theraputic.
3. A bread machine limits what I can make, particularly as I get more and more involved with delayed fermentation and the use of preferments. And, as you noticed, you are limited in shapes.
I agree with you on all of these....you also can't get a very good crust with a bread machine....bread machine breads always seem to be a little "wet" when they are done....and you always have that annoying hole in your loaf.