Just my opinion Elsie and just us speaking, as although I know just how wonderful and healthy homemade

bread is I know we would eat too much of that beautiful hot bread straight out of the machine

and hence so much more fat because well just because lol er we like butter/margarine/jam etc.

on said bread.

Maybe you would not eat more and maybe make it at night ready for breakfast and so not lovely

and hot?

We bought the Yoghurt maker and had fun making that for a couple of months (not all that keen

on yoghurt) but know how good it is supposed to be for us but ended up throwing out a lot so gave up making it

and just buy it now and again instead of making it.

We buy our bread at Aldi - white really nice for Peter because he can only eat white bread for just $1.09

a loaf so cheaper than probably homemade, and my choice is multigrain nice and thick sliced for

just $2.49 a big 800g loaf so really good value.

We are SO grateful to have an Aldi near us............

Phyl.

Hi Elsie

I have a Breville bread machine which I obtained from Harvey Norman here in Inverell NSW. I use it about 3 times a week to make mostly Soy and Linseed loaves which I cut thick and toast in a sandwich maker or eat fresh. The bread is beautiful, reminds me of the crusty double-humped unsliced bread we used to buy from the corner store as kids. You could break it in half and scoop out the soft inner and eat it on the way home from the shops. Mum would always growl at us but who amongst us can resit fresh bread? With good supermarket bread so expensive it pays to bake it if you like your bread thick and chunky.

Thank you Frances,I know its fattening & all that,but I dont eat much.Thanks also Phyl,I dont have an Aldi wish I did,

I have heard good reports.

I was tempted to get a bread machine several years ago but was advised not to by my daughter. She had one for a while and got rid of it as the bread had a very short life. Is this correct?

Now I get my bread from an asian bakery at a very reasonable price and a huge variety, baked daily.

Ive had a Breville bread machine for about 7 years and wouldn't be without it.



I blend a mix of German Grain with Crusty White flour to get a lighter Wholemeal loaf of around 500g/1lb and if kept in the fridge it keeps for a week. I find them far better than the cardboard loaves in the supermarket.



I thought a large electrical store would have still stocked them today?

Thanks all, & BFrank for the welcome recipe. I am going to bite the bullet & buy one, went into The Good Guys & they had a nice looking Breville,& all the Bakers flour in the supermarket looks interesting. Will think of you all with the first loaf.

Elsie I forgot to add that I have spoken to people who have purchased machines that make larger loaves than mine and have been disappointed because the bread does dry out a little and the last few slices must be toasted or thrown out. Living alone my 500g/1lb loaf suits my needs.

I have never had a Bread machine--LOVE hot bread though--however I wonder if in the long run it is any cheaper--what with buying the stuff and then running the machine---? My friend did have one but the bread--if it lasted that long went stale very quick.

My son was baking bread when he was in college. Good smells and good taste. For the last several years now he has lived in England or Germany so we haven't had him visit us and make bread.



Anyway, what he was using was a frozen bread dough. You would take it out of the freezer and put it in a bread pan. let it warm and it would rise. Pop it in the hot oven for a period and out came some good bread. I think the stuff he bought had two or three loaves in it. One would be white and one dark.



Since we hardly ever eat bread I don't even know it they still make the products for the US markets. Do they have this in the Australian markets.

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Since we hardly ever eat bread I don't even know it they still make the products for the US markets. Do they have this in the Australian markets.

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I have not seen it bob but then bread making is not for me ...........we have good stuff available ove the counter .........clay

Thanks for all the discussion on the subject, it sure gives me a few different points of view.As for wether the cost is worth it, with a Diabetic husband ,I feel at least I will know what we are eating, when we had one years ago I found it quite economical as long as you made the size loaf to meet your needs, I think a week in the fridge is pretty good.

I have never seen the frozen dough in the supermarket, but thanks for the thought. I am still thinking on it , so keep it all coming.

The good thing today is that what is in a loaf of bread or nearly everything has to be listed

so people with a condition needing the elimination of anything know what is in the bread.

After all ready mix packets of cake mix or bread are the same as cake/bread is,

other than you have the electricity and time taken to make it but with bread (and I am not trying

convincing anyone loves the smell of hot bread that it is not great) the ingredients cannot be much

difference to bought bread. I know hot bread can give people gerd/reflux so I suppose better to

make sure it is cool maybe if anyone has heartburn.



I would think the only loaf of REAL homemade bread is when you start with all the ingredients and hand mix it

but not much difference maybe if you buy a bread mix as what's the difference other than your electricity and work. It is the same as bought bread Just my point of view of course. I have many loaves of bread in my big deep freeze now @ just $1.09 a loaf from Aldi and a couple of wonderful grain Loaves @ just $2.45 ea. I still am not over buying in bulk and storing forgetting we are near the shops now whereas previously we were not. I know some people like soy and linseed (not everyone can eat these and different varieties of things are not good for everyone) and lots of things you could probably add if you wanted to to but the ingredient list on the bread packet makes for good choices I think.

but everything is catered for as our bread is a really good product here in Australia.

All the best.

Phyl.

Appreciate your reply Phyl. Aldi not an option for me as we havent got one.Good point as to the ingredient list & I agree with you there.However,I still say the major supermarkets bread tastes like cardboard, Its all a matter of choice I suppose,we dont eat a lot of bread but what we do eat I want to taste!!Time, well thats not an option with me as I like to cook & I am retired.All in all I suppose its a lot easier to buy bread ready made,but things always taste better if you cook them yourself.I always used to bake my own bread from scratch, but its too hard now with wonky hands. Thanks for your reply.

Elsie re your heading "Do I want a Bread Maker"? Yes I think you do :)

If you have the thought "I would like a bread maker and make my own bread" why not?

I usually just go "do it" lol as you may love the bread and even the making it and the smell of it and the

well everything goes with it and they are not expensive these days - goodness one night at a motel costs more than the machine and it will give you fun even if not always, sometimes, and if not sometimes and you cannot be bothered using it anymore well you can advertise it and sell it for 1/2 the price and you have had the fun of it.

Makes me think I should get the standing grill, and the waffle maker and the too big for us now toasted sandwich maker (the one makes 8 when we had everyone home) and we now use the two one and oh many electric appliances filling my cupboard lol and sell them through Gumtree.

Go get the breadmaker Esie and don't let anyone talk you out of it :) It will be good fun.

Phyl.