Most bread machine problems can be solved! This category contains helpful articles about challenges you may face when using your bread machine.
Wondering what to do when your bread doesn’t rise? What’s the difference between all-purpose flour and bread flour? How do you convert bread recipes for one sized machine to recipes for another sized machine? I’ve got all that covered and more.
I’ve also got special sections devoted to questions about bread ingredients and issues relating more to bread machines than to bread.
I loved my new house, but my bread machine didn’t seem to like it much. It was turning out bread dough was incredibly sticky and really unpleasant to handle. Imagine my surprise when I discovered the problem. It was our water!
Continue reading →NEVER put cold water in the bread pan while it is still hot after baking. This will warp the base of the pan and cause the beaters to scrape the non-stick coating off in a circular pattern. ALWAYS let it stand to cool before washing it out.
Continue reading →Has this ever happened to you? There’s a strange sound coming from the bread machine. You’ve forgotten to add the paddles! Eeek! What do you do now?
Continue reading →Worried that you’ll eat too much bread? Maybe you’re worried that you won’t be able to eat the bread fast enough? I’ve got advice for both scenarios.
Continue reading →As you may know, I live near Seattle, Washington. This week brought historically high temperatures. My plan was to bake bread in the “cool” of the morning. The only problem was that it wasn’t really cool in the morning. It … Continue reading →
