Bread-making is not the easiest hobby to pick up. It’s time-consuming, requires an intense attention to detail, and one wrong move could …
Bread-making is not the easiest hobby to pick up. It’s time-consuming, requires an intense attention to detail, and one wrong move could be the difference between a crunchy crust with chewy insides and a flat, stodgy piece of dough. If you’re not sure you have all that measuring, kneading, proofing and baking in you just for a piece of fresh bread (and that’s not to mention the immense amount of cleanup that comes with baking bread from scratch), there is a shortcut: making killer homemade bread with a bread machine. All you really do is combine dry and wet ingredients right in the appliance, and the bread machine does the rest of the work. Finding the best bread machine for the type of bread you’d like to make, how much of a yield you’re looking for and what will fit your bread maker budget requires a little more work. Most bread machines are engineered to make a few different styles of bread and have settings and programs to help you nail a rye, sourdough or multigrain but there are differences between different brands and models worthy of an investigation. You can also spend loads on a bread machine if you’ve got some extra coin lying around, but there are inexpensive bread machines that work great so don’t withdraw that entire stimulus check just yet.
