Bread Machine Tips for Beginners
Get started with bread machine baking! My bread machine tips for beginners cover yeast, flour, dough checks, storage, and troubleshooting advice.
Continue reading →Category Archives: Bread Machine Troubleshooting and Tips
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.
Bread Machine Delay Start Timer
Here are a few things I’ve learned that will help you use the bread machine delay start timer. These will be helpful no matter what type of bread machine you own.
Continue reading →How to Bake Bread Dough in the Oven
Some people want to use their bread machine to create the dough and then bake the bread in the oven. So here’s some general advice on how to bake bread machine dough in the oven.
Continue reading →How to Measure Flour?
Wondering how to measure flour? Check out two methods and learn the pros and cons of each.
Continue reading →High Altitudes and Your Bread Machine
Wondering about high altitudes and your bread machine? I get it! Over the last few years I’ve lived at sea level, 4,800 feet and have now bought a home at 3,700 feet. Here are some hints for adjusting bread machine recipes so that they work, no matter the altitude.
Continue reading →Dealing With an Old Oven
Are your hamburger buns and dinner rolls burning? Do recipes for anything involving your oven not turn out? Maybe the problem is the oven temperature.
Continue reading →Buying and Storing Bread Flour in Bulk
I make ALL the bread for our household with my bread machine. (Really!!) As you might guess, we go through a lot of bread flour. Learn where we buy flour in bulk and how we store it.
Continue reading →Bread Troubleshooting – Bread That Doesn’t Rise At All
It’s happened to all of us. Sometimes your bread doesn’t rise at all. Instead of a great loaf of bread, you’ve got a bread brick! I’ve got tips that will help.
Continue reading →Bread Troubleshooting – Bread That Rises and Then Falls
What do you do when your bread rises, but then collapses while baking? I’ve got a bunch of hints that will help. And while this blog is about bread machines, the tips will help for any method of making bread.
Continue reading →Bread Machine Yeast? Instant Yeast? Active Dry Yeast? What’s the Difference?
Bread machine yeast. Rapid rise yeast. Active dry yeast. Are you wondering what the difference is and what type of yeast to use in your bread machine? This article will help.
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