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Do you make use of bread machine mixes when you want to make yeast bread in your automated bread-making machine? If you do, why do you? Because you think it’s simpler? It is so simple to make gourmet bread quickly from simple bread recipes and so much more flexible too. If you use bread machine mixes you are limited to the bread machine mixes you can find in the stores ” no matter how many of them there are.

However, a good bread machine recipe cookbook is far more flexible than bread machine mixes. A good bread machine recipe book might give you 150 or so recipes coming from several countries, but it will also encourage you to change those recipes, inspiring you to be creative and develop your own style of bread.

Bread machine mixes are really quite restricting and you have no control over what goes into the bread machine mix either: preservatives, colouring, MSG, salt or who knows what. Yes, it says on the label, but you cant take them out, if you limit yourself to bread machine mixes.

Making bread is really quite simple. Or to put it correctly, the ingredients to making bread are really quite simple. To make a very basic loaf of bread, you only need: flour, water, yeast, sugar, salt and fat or oil. The hard part about making bread is the mixing. It can take four hours to mix the bread mixture together; to wait for it to rise; to knead it; wait for it to prove; knead it again and cook it.

So, if you have a bread making machine you can automate the hard bread mixing, proving, kneading cycle and if you have a bread-making recipe book you will be provided with numerous recipes to guide and inspire you.

What could be more simple? You consult the bread-making machine recipe book for an appealing recipe; you put the household ingredients into the bread mixing bowl of the bread machine and you put the yeast into a time-release capsule on the top of the bread machine; set the timer and just go about your daily routine or even go to bed!

The bread making machine will mix the ingredients and check the timer. My bread-making machine has a sixteen-hour timer. So, if you want your gourmet, yeast bread ready for 6:30 AM, the bread-making machine will mix the flour, water, salt oil and sugar immediately, add the yeast at say, 4 AM, knead, prove and bake the bread and ring a bell at 6:30 to announce that your gourmet food is ready.

Except that you won’t need the alarm to let you know that. The aroma of fresh bread will [permeate|fill your house and you will be very much cognizant of the fact that your bread making machine is almost ready to serve up one of the best loaves of bread you’ve ever had in your whole life. And you won’t ever look for bread machine mixes again. You’ll be overflowing with your own bread machine mixes in no time at all and you’ll be giving bread away as presents so that you can try out your very own latest bread machine mix recipe.

Bread machine mixes: who needs them?

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