About bread

Billions of housewives dream of a bread maker. Millions have it and confirm: this kitchen technology expands the horizons of home cooking! In addition, it makes it easier to knead the dough, and the most modern models have a number of additional features. The cost of the bread machine is such that it may well become your assistant in the kitchen.

What can bread makers do? At first glance, this is a very simple question, and the answer to it lies in the very name of the kitchen units - of course, bread makers know how to bake bread. But getting to know them better, you can find many additional functions - from regulating the degree of crispness of the crust to making yoghurts. Of course, each additional feature increases not only the functionality, but also the cost of bread makers, so we will consider the most popular of them from the point of view of practicality.

Thinking about buying a bread machine and studying thematic sites and forums dedicated to it, sooner or later we notice that almost the only "minus" of this unit is the risk of quickly gaining extra pounds. This fear has every reason - even ardent advocates of diets are difficult to resist before fresh, warm and aromatic bread. However, in addition to soft rolls and sweet buns in a bread machine, you can also bake low-calorie, healthy bread, enriching it with tasty and healthy additives.

Many families have their own recipe for making bread, which has traditionally been passed down from generation to generation. Homemade loaf is the pride of any housewife. The production of this toasted, round with a crispy crust of homemade bread, like any other dough product, requires special attention and respect. If you put a little love and a piece of your soul into the process, then the loaf itself will delight us with its unsurpassed taste.

It is believed that white wheat bread is much tastier and more luxurious than black rye bread. This opinion has been formed for centuries, and it is connected with the fact that in Russia, especially closer to the north, rye is easier to grow than wheat. Therefore, rye bread was perceived as a peasant one, and wheat, requiring special care, as a noble one. Nowadays life has become better, and the consumption of rye bread has decreased by an order of magnitude, so few people remember that real rye bread is an exquisite delicacy, the basis of national cuisine, an invariable addition to salty and spicy snacks, Russian meat dishes.

The names of cereal crops are so unusual, and just as incomprehensible to the majority, although by and large, few people think about their origin. But if you go through each name, you can find a lot of curious phenomena.

The attitude of the modern food industry towards us as consumers can be described in one phrase: faster, easier, more satisfying. What to do, the time is now. The speed of life has increased many times, everything must be in time. I came home from work, took out what to eat from the refrigerator, warmed it up, pecked without disassembling it, watched TV, and sleep.

The food industry specialists are well aware of these simple requests of ours. And helpfully adapt to them. The best scientists, the best laboratories in the world are working on this. Need it fast? Here are 3-minute noodles. Do you need tasty? Here is a microwave royal lunch with a variety of flavors and amplifiers. Do you need nice and satisfying? No problem! Here's a warm French bread with a perfect crust, dazzling white flesh and just the right amount of calories if you don't overeat. Plus, slicing ham - and you don't need a knife ...

Since ancient times in Russia, bread was baked in special ovens: in many houses there was a special bread oven in addition to the usual kitchen oven. Such a stove was heated with wood firewood, which was burned directly inside it. When it got hot enough, the coals and ashes were swept out, the dough was placed directly on the hot stone, after which the oven was closed. After a couple of hours, a fragrant and fresh loaf was served on the table. This cooking process required skill and care. It was even believed that a girl who could not bake bread would never make a good housewife.

It has been known since ancient times that bread perfectly satisfies hunger and gives a feeling of warmth and comfort of home. Nowadays, on store shelves, you do not often find such a ruddy bread with a golden crust, which would be suitable both in price and in the composition of the ingredients.

People have baked bread since time immemorial. Those who need a historical excursion - google, do not be lazy. As for household bread machines, they appeared in Russia not so long ago. Around the middle of the 90s of the last century. Before them there were only bakeries (and a few cooperative bakeries). But they did not fit into the kitchenettes of the Khrushchevs. Even earlier, the Russian oven reigned. Actually, she is still the queen - the most delicious bread is obtained just in her. Just you won't find her now in the afternoon with fire, even in the villages. And I want homemade bread. Therefore, let's turn our attention to the bread maker. Is she a continuer of a just cause, a keeper of traditions?

And why did they come up with the idea to produce bread makers not in Russia, with its inexhaustible fields of rye and wheat, but in Germany, England, Japan, Korea? However, it cannot be said that the oven is loved only in Russia. In Germany, the homeland of the bread machine, there are also long-standing bakery traditions. A French baguette and croissants? What about Italian pizza? Each country has its own culinary preferences, which are taken into account by manufacturers of household appliances. What can the creators of mini-bakeries offer Russian housewives?

In the new models of bread makers, you can bake not only "classic" white bread from wheat flour, but also healthy bread from flour with bran or from several types and varieties of cereals. For example, bread with the addition of buckwheat, corn, rice, oat flour, flour from sprouted wheat is very useful and tasty - a storehouse of vitamins A, B, C and, in the latter case, deficient E. Our savvy housewives prepare such flour at home without any problems, grinding on grits for cereals.

Bread from a bread machine may not come out cheaper than store bread, but it is certainly tastier. If you purchased a bread maker, read the instructions for it first, then experiment with the main loaf. This will help you get acquainted with the work of your bread maker, as well as use it more confidently, try new interesting recipes. All bread makers knead, stand and bake fresh crispy bread, but still a lot depends on the models. When choosing a bread machine, the main thing is to take into account the size of the loaf, as well as what programs are available.

There was a temptation to arrange something like a hoax or a quiz in this "Garden": to tell how Sergey Golubitsky invited me to test a new device, how the device made an impression, how, having left the hospitable house, I first via the Internet, and then - in order to feel - and through Gorbushka - I conducted a serious marketing research, as a result of which I came to the conclusion: a similar device from Panasonic is more to my liking than Seregin LG or the device from Hitachi advised by Siberian friends (in Siberia, for some reason, this the brand has earned recognition and popular love).

For a modern person, a bread machine is more exotic than a need. In recent years, we have become accustomed to buying bread in the store, we have begun to consider it something that is beyond the control of home cooking. Result? Following homemade bread, buns, pancakes, pies and other primordially Russian delicacies gradually began to disappear from our house. Today, not every hostess dares to prepare pies for the arrival of guests - there is always a danger that the dough will not fit as it should, and kneading it is not an easy job ... Now imagine that 99% of these problems have been removed from you! How? Yes, with the help of a small, undemanding device in maintenance and operation - a bread maker.

Bread makers are very easy to use, once you get used to your bread maker, you will wonder how you used to do without it. But a bread maker is a machine, and it does not know how to think for itself.When baking bread, you can run into various problems, and it is important to understand why this happens. Here are some typical troubles that can happen.

One of the most convenient functions provided by a bread maker is making yeast dough. When you select it, your bread maker will automatically knead all the ingredients, knead the dough for the right amount of time, and then create the ideal conditions for it to rise. The entire cycle, from kneading the ingredients to the risen dough, takes about 1 3/4 hours, but this time is slightly different in all bread makers. No matter how you cook your dough, you will have wide open spaces for the formation of various products.

Although a bread maker should always bake great bread, it is important to remember that this is only a machine and cannot think for itself. It is important to carefully measure the amount of ingredients and add them to the bread maker in the order shown in the instructions for the bread machine. All ingredients should be at the kitchen temperature, so remove them from the refrigerator beforehand if your bread maker does not have a reheat mode.

Imagine: you wake up in the morning not by an alarm clock, but by the warm aroma of freshly baked bread spreading from your kitchen. Mmmm ... Sounds tempting? Then you are ready to purchase a bread maker.

The first automatic bread makers appeared in 1980 and since then they have gradually gained popularity. In our time, perhaps, you can divide people into those who already have a bread maker and those who have not yet heard of it. A bread maker is one of the most successful and useful items in the kitchen.

With our instructions, you will be able to bake the perfect loaf in your bread maker the very first time. The tips are general, should work for all bread makers, and should be applied in conjunction with the instructions for your bread machine. Use fresh, quality ingredients as you cannot expect good results from expired flour or yeast.

Homemade baking takes a lot of patience, attention and, of course, time. That is why in our hasty age there are not so many families left where housewives pamper household members with fresh, warm homemade bread, muffins, and buns. Meanwhile, modern home appliances will allow you to pamper your household with fresh baked goods. The bread makers are fully automated and withstand temperature, time, baking modes with perfect accuracy.