Most of us who have experienced the beauty of having a bread machine in our home, we will not deny the fact that it helps a lot with the cooking. When we used to take 1 hour just to bake a perfect bread, with the bread machine, it only takes 30 minutes of our time to do the same thing.
Many people believe that a bread machine is one the inventions that have helped many busy homemakers around the world. In fact, many families admit that their family now enjoy more time together than the good old days where they have to fight to find the perfect time to be spent as a whole family.
Always unplug your bread machine when you are not using it. This is to avoid the possibility of your machine to be short-circuited during storms or heavy rains. If you fail to do this, once your bread machine got short-circuited, you will have no other choice other than to replace it with a new set. Should your machine survives the attack, you are not advised to keep using it since it may explode when you are using it, which will harm your safety. So, it is a wise act to just buy a new set even though it burns your wallet.
Secondly, this machine causes less clutter and mess that we normally have when we start to make the bread from the first step of mixing all the ingredients to the finishing step of baking it. In addition, some factories actually produce frozen ready-to-bake bread dough just for the usage of bread machine. Therefore, busy homemakers or working parents can immediately prepare fresh breads for their family just buy buying the frozen dough, thaw it, put in the pre-heated bread machine, and then wait for 30-35 minutes for the bread to be done.
Next, you must give the machine a space for ventilation. Like most cooking appliances, when the bread is being baked, the heat from the machine needs to be released. Placing the machine 30 centimeters from the wall gives the heat enough room to escape and does not get trapped behind the machine as this will cause overheating.
Before baking, you need to pre-heat your machine. Failure to do this will cause your bread to be baked for a longer time than usual. Unheated machine will also cause your machine not operating to its optimum function. It is just the same thing with the fact that humans need to warm up before doing any activity. During the baking, we are also not encouraged to open the lid. This causes warm heat to escape unnecessarily; affecting the bread and also the time needed to bake the bread.
The next negative effect is that since the bread machine comes with an automated timer, most people tend to neglect the aspect of monitoring the bread while it is being cooker. They take the opportunity to use the time to other things such as the laundry, house-cleaning or gardening. When they do this, they will also sometimes left the bread in the machine without knowing that it is being overcooked.
To avoid being cheated by shops or salesperson, bring someone who is good in bargaining and knows how to talk to the salesperson. This is because sometimes we are blinded by the sweet talk of the salesperson that we unconsciously buy the one that is not only expensive, but also of a low quality.
John McKain has a restaurant and several cooking blogs. He has been writing bread machine reviews to help his readers choose the best bread machines for baking good bread.