The £40 Aldi Bread Maker!


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An absolute bargain price bread making kitchen gadget has been found from Aldi. I’ve never used a bread maker before, can it do …

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  1. Kylie Jacqui
    Kylie Jacqui says:

    A couple of things from 25 yrs of using bread machines, you need to allow the machine to cool down completely between each loaf otherwise the yeast will die. Don't allow the yeast and salt to connect to quickly again it will kill the yeast. Often depending on the time or year and temperature in the house you may need to add a bit more water or flour. Spray the bread bin with 'real ease' or 'bakels sprink' so that nothing sticks. Good luck

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  2. Barbara Smith
    Barbara Smith says:

    The dough feature is great for mixing up pretzel dough, pizza dough, or bread doughs that you want to shape differently (and make it look like an actual artisan loaf). I have used my bread maker for over 20 years now and can tell you that they are great to have. The Challah bread recipe I have is terrific( I will happily share upon request ), and that is an easy and very pretty braided loaf. I bet your girls would love it and would also love helping to make it. Excellent for making very naughty French toast the next day as well (that is, if you have any left!).
    The mix in feature is lovely if you want to add seeds or nuts into your dough. As Mrs. B. said about the raisins, it helps to not have the mix-ins sink to the bottom of the loaf by having you add them when the gluten has sort of set up enough to give the dough some body enough to hold it's shape.
    A nice thing about the bread maker mixing up your ingredients and kneading your dough is that even if you don't actually end up baking in the actual machine, you know you will have a nice warm and contained proofing chamber while the dough rises. Tip: DON"T use the dark crust feature when baking in machine. Medium at the most. The heating element that close to the bottom will almost always scorch the bottom of the loaf. Especially if you have a dough with a larger amount of honey or sugar in the ingredients.

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  3. MagikGimp
    MagikGimp says:

    It's very similar to the one we had years ago. You can see how things have slightly improved but it's essentially the same design plus some more cooking modes (which don't seem like much of an addition by the looks of it!)

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  4. Cathy B
    Cathy B says:

    I bought a 5$ 🇨🇦 bread machine at a thrift store works great ,,I use the knead rise part and then remove the dough to make mini loafs,awesome ,,😅

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  5. peanut3009
    peanut3009 says:

    When you add the oil, pour it onto the paddle, and then swirl the oil water mixture to coat the pan before adding all the other ingredients. Doing this makes the browning more even on the crust and the paddle is more likely to release smoothly.

    I think that you're having issues with overfilling the machine, maybe the recipes they included weren't thoroughly tested, or your measures are a slight bit generous. Since you have three loaf size options, I would make the middle size and slowly scale them up towards the large size. If your bread touches the lid, it'll be misshapen and there won't be enough room for steam condensation to go.

    I've made jam plenty of times in my machine (a pricier one) and it works out great. I've done variations on the included recipes and you can pretty much do any fruit you've got so long as you don't overfill it. It's a great way to use up excess fruit {bought too much, or didn't finish in time) or to take advantage of cheap markdown ripe/MQ fruit at the market.

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  6. MarkW
    MarkW says:

    I've had a couple of breadmakers – a Morphy Richards long loaf one and a previous Aldi one, which were 'ok' but generally unless you kept an eye on them would have flour spots in the corners, or the paddles would get stuck inside the bread or be a sod to clean. Then about 12 months ago I splashed out on the Panasonic ZB-2502 which although being nearly £200, makes utterly fantastic bread and is the best breadmaker I've ever had, hands down. I can put all the ingredients in when I go to bed and at 6:30am I'm woken up by the smell of a fresh loaf. It has separate Yeast & 'Additional' compartments (so if you want to add currants, dried fruit or other ingredients later in the mix like you did manually here for the rice bread) which dispense automatically. The paddle never gets stuck in the bread, and the bread is always amazing.
    In fact, I didn't realise that Panasonic (Matsushita) are actually the company that first invented the home breadmaker machine back in 1986!

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  7. LadyGecko
    LadyGecko says:

    Sweet Bread is dough for cinnamon rolls. I love my bread machine. And while 2 to 4 hours seems like a lot, remember…is it mixing, kneading and a double raise and then baking with that time.

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  8. Crystalsky
    Crystalsky says:

    I bought an old bread maker used, for 10 dollars from a goodwill. I use it when I want fresh bread and its fantastic. I have made made cinnamon bread, garlic bread, white bread. It isn't as advanced, like there is only two crust settings but its worth it to make fresh bread.

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  9. Snoozerpoo
    Snoozerpoo says:

    I've made tons of gluten free bread in bread makers. If you follow the directions it's hard to mess up, and homemade gluten free bread is so much better than most any store bought. Set it up at bedtime, and have fresh still warm bread first thing in the morning.

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  10. Jamie W
    Jamie W says:

    Then compare the technology in this to the first moon landing? Just to fill a man with dough?? I might be a bit sad too…that was exciting to watch!!!

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  11. toh ping Tiang
    toh ping Tiang says:

    Bread maker tray shap did not change since the 1st machines. You need to change the original recipe a little to make softer cake. I remember there is a more high tech bread maker that has cups for nuts and such. For when you use timer to bake bread.

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  12. Joseph Palma
    Joseph Palma says:

    I don't know what it's like in Euroland but in Murica I don't know if I've been to a Goodwill in the last 20 years that didn't have at least 1 bread machine in the appliance section. I finally bought one a couple years ago for 8bucks and it became my favorite appliance. It has a wider and shorter bucket than this one, it does a poorer job at smaller loafs, but for the standard 2lb/1kg loaf it's an absolute banger.

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  13. TBMJDragon
    TBMJDragon says:

    Don't give up on the other functions, while I've never done a yeast cake in mine (and never will after seeing yours), the cheesecake I make in my breadmaker is a favorite, especially since it's so easy and minimal clean up.

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  14. Akantia
    Akantia says:

    Having a bread maker is fun, I've made a good few over the years since well "inheriting" mine (it was my dads and since it was in the kitchen nobody thought about it so it just became mine lol)

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