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Bread Mix Review – Bob’s Red Mill 10 Grain Bread Mix

Marsha — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:44:20 +0000

I love Bob’s Red Mill products. I buy their flour all the time. So I was excited about trying their 10 grain bread mix. I followed the directions and made the loaf in my two pound Zojirushi bread machine.

The bread looked great as it came out of the pan. (see below) The taste was just okay though. Maybe the problem is that I’m not a big connoisseur of wheat bread. I was looking forward to a heavier and denser bread, but it was fairly light. The flavor was nice. Even the Man of the House, who does not like wheat bread, thought it was acceptable.

There was just one big problem. The mix was for a one and a half pound machine and the loaf took up the entire pan on my two pound machine. Unless you have a two-pound machine I’d stay away from this mix. It might not fit in your machine.

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Bread Mix Review – Scottish Toasting Oat from King Arthur Flour

Marsha — Sun, 01 May 2011 22:08:48 +0000

Recently I tried the Scottish Toasting Oat Yeast Bread Mix from King Arthur flour. As you can see, the bread turned out fine. However I didn’t like it. The reason? It was the oat berries.

Do you see the little white bits in the photo? They were hard and crunchy. Their consistency was about the same as Grape-Nuts cereal. The flavor of the bread was hearty and pleasant, I just didn’t enjoy the crunchiness.

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Bread Mix Review – Alaskan Sourdough Yeast Bread

Marsha — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:49:15 +0000

A few weeks ago I ordered some new bakeware from King Arthur Flour. I’d always wanted to try some of their bread mixes so I gave into temptation and ordered a few. I’d never made sourdough bread so I was excited about their Alaskan Sourdough Yeast Bread mix.

In addition to the contents of the box I needed water and oil. I followed the instructions and put all the ingredients in the pan of my Zojirushi bread machine.

The bread looked great when it came out and it tasted pretty great too. It had a lovely sourdough flavor and was pleasantly chewy.

This was a real winner and it made me think about making sourdough bread on a regular basis. That would mean buying sourdough starter or making starter from scratch. The Zojirushi actually has a setting to make sourdough starter so that would be fine. However starter has to be fed and maintained. I wonder how much time and effort that takes? Hmmm . . . I’ll have to do some more investigation.

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Bread Mix Review – Classic Hearth Hawaiian Bread

Marsha — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:30:14 +0000

As I gazed at this box of bread mix in Walmart, I realized that I’d never purchased bread mixes for my machine. Once we were given a few by a friend, but that had been years ago. I couldn’t even remember how the bread turned out.

Were mixes any good? Would I like them? Would I be able to taste the difference?

I decided to try it out.

The bread looked and tasted fine. I thought it was fantastic toasted with peanut butter on it. The Man of the House like it but said it had a “funny texture.”

Making bread with a bread machine isn’t hard. I make sandwich bread about once a week. It takes about 15 minutes including cleanup. However using a mix was much easier and faster.

The Man of the House and I haven’t done a firm workup on how much it costs to make a loaf of bread. We buy our flour, yeast, salt and sugar at Costco. Our rough estimate is that it costs us about fifty cents to make a loaf of bread. Even if it’s double that, a mix is much more expensive than making a loaf from scratch.

So this mix gets points for ease of use and bread quality. The cost is reasonable for a mix, but more expensive than making bread from scratch.

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