Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Frugal Living => Topic started by: ytyynycefn on March 26, 2007, 15:11
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If anyone's interested!
They're doing bread machines for £25 in Lidl - we bought one last week, as we'd been planning on getting one for a while. It's blooming brilliant - makes a big loaf too - plus cake, jam, dough, etc. Much better than the £100+ my ex kept when I left :lol:
So if you're thinking about getting one, I'd recommend these as a "can't really go wrong for the money" buy.
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25's a steal. i will nudge her indoors :idea: :wink:
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I would, I'm still very pleased with mine!
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thanks Mel I could do with a new one
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Sounds great - never been very successful making my own bread (usually as hard as rock) and often thought about getting a machine but have been put off by the price
Do you use fresh ingredients in the machine or one of those dried bread mixes?
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I've tried the mixes but prefer to use fresh ingredients.
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Well, I like plain old white bread - the recipe I've been using is:
500ml tepid water with 1tbsp dried yeast (not the express instant stuff)
1.5 tsp sea salt
1.5 tsp sugar
700g bread flour
Add to the (Lidl) machine in that order, hit programme 1, and three and a half hours later, you get fabulous bread. This one has some slices missing :lol:
(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o299/ytyynycefn/bread.jpg)
When I get bored with that, I'll play about with adding pesto, sun dried toms, olives, herbs, stuff like that. I had it all worked out on my marital bread machine, but ex-hubby got that!
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I love my bread machine. You know exactly what is in your bread and can make some very tast variations. The only downside for me is that using dried yeast means less of a yeasty smell, which is more than made up for by the variety and ease of use. Favourites at the moment are sun dried tomato, cheese and herb and sunflower seed. :D
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Looks yummy Mel. I'd be making black olive bread one day, rosemary bread the next day, then black olive and rosemary mixed ...
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my missus doesnt use her machine very often, but when she does, its several hours of absolute torture waiting for it to be ready, just the smell of baking bread and were drooling :D
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Heh Zak, I thought you'd be able to bake bread at work on top of all that old analogue transmitting equipment! :D :D
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Doesn't it use lots of electric?
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Heh Zak, I thought you'd be able to bake bread at work on top of all that old analogue transmitting equipment! :D :D
:D only if i want it to tast of burnt paxolin :D
i can get my tea cooked before it starts - my tea takes 3mins in a 600W microwave, or 2min in an 800W, at the top of the tower its 350,000W! so me tea is cooked by time travel :D :D
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Doesn't it use lots of electric?
It's 800W. Probably uses less leccy than heating up the oven... It's only hot for the hour it takes to bake.
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heating element on for an hour, 800w = 0.8kWh
1 kWh = ~10p (think thats what my leccy costs)
so cost about 8p to bake a loaf! add on the ingredients cost and a cost per loaf for the purchase of the machine, its probably still a bit dearer than buying a loaf, but that aint the point is it i suppose :D
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Well, my bread flour is 50p a 1.5 kg bag (Lidl again) - so it's about 25p for flour, maybe 10p for yeast, and the salt and sugar cost is pennies.
So a nice loaf for about 50p beats a cotton wool loaf for 40p! There's way less salt to worry about too...
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so cost about 8p to bake a loaf! add on the ingredients cost and a cost per loaf for the purchase of the machine, its probably still a bit dearer than buying a loaf, but that aint the point is it i suppose
Correct, it ain't the point - on a cost basis only, none of us would be growing tatties ... What are they, about £4 per 25kg usually. Taste cr*p though.
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It's not the salt I worry about it's the enzymes they use to inhibit staleness. Bread from the supermarket goes mouldy long before it ever goes dry and even that takes an unnaturally long time to take place. I have heard that lots of folks that think they are wheat intolerant are actually reacting to the enzymes used in modern day bread making.
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so cost about 8p to bake a loaf! add on the ingredients cost and a cost per loaf for the purchase of the machine, its probably still a bit dearer than buying a loaf, but that aint the point is it i suppose
Correct, it ain't the point - on a cost basis only, none of us would be growing tatties ... What are they, about £4 per 25kg usually. Taste cr*p though.
spot on mate!
:D
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It's not the salt I worry about it's the enzymes they use to inhibit staleness. Bread from the supermarket goes mouldy long before it ever goes dry and even that takes an unnaturally long time to take place. I have heard that lots of folks that think they are wheat intolerant are actually reacting to the enzymes used in modern day bread making.
My friend and his Mrs are both supposedly wheat intolerant even to the point that she gets prescription food like pasta and other stuff. I wonder if i tell them to give proper bread a try it may help them?
I will tell them. nice one. :D
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Hope it helps. Just something I saw on the tv though.