Bread Machine Broken The failure My bread machine, a Zojirushi Virtuoso model BB-PAC20, stopped working on Monday June 27. The pan would not even seat on the drive connectors in the machine. One of the drive shafts was seized. The pan was already loaded with unmixed ingredients for a light rye bread. I dumped the …
Bread is … an intermediate-moisture food product that is prone to mould spoilage. Normally bread is eaten fresh or preserved using additives or modified atmosphere packaging. Stanley P. Cauvain, Breadmaking, 2nd ed. 2012 Most bread is made of grain that has been harvested, milled,to be hydrated, kneaded, and baked. Agricultural, industrial and culinary art have …
Much “whole wheat” bread is a multigrain blend – 50-90% high protein white flour with whole wheat flour, and carmelized sugar products (e.g. molasses) for wheat flavour, brown colour, a touch of fiber and right to appear to be wholesome and virtuous That kind of whole wheat loaf can be baked in a bread machine …
Why? Bread is perishable. It dries out; It becomes stale; It is vulnerable to animal pests and microorganisms including mould. Animal pests may contaminate the bread with body parts, eggs, larva, bodily fluids and micro-organisms. Mould is a colony of microorganisms that chemically alters the bread – it can effectively poison the bread. The main …
Rye Bread Bread was made with rye flour in parts of Eurasia. Rye grew and wheat did not, including the parts of Northern Europe, including the lands around the Baltic Sea. Rye does not produce enough gluten to rise like a leavened wheat bread. Pumpernickel, bread made from 100% rye floour is outside the capabilities …
Multigrain Multigrain means a blend of bread flour and whole wheat, or another flour. These recipes involve 15% -50 % whole wheat flour by weight. I adapt recipes, mainly from the Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook (“BLBMC”). I write recipes in tables, and updated tables. The basic bake program works in most machines for …
A lean bread is flour, water, yeast and salt. Sandwich bread is enriched with sugar or milk. Milk has fats and sugars, in solution. Sugar makes the dough more extensible, which helps the dough to flow and rise. However, sugar or milk change the crust and crumb. Salt interacts with amino acids making up the …
Bread machine recipes have to be customized for machines. I stopped trusting “standard” recipes. I adapt recipes, mainly from the Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook (“BLBMC”). I worked out my approach to yeast and low sodium in baking in a Panasonic SD-YD250 for medium (1.5 lb.) loaves June, July and August, 2018. BLBMC recipes did …
Bread Bible and Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook Beth Hensperger wrote two books that were published close together by different publishers. The Bread Bible: Beth Hensperger’s 300 Favourite Recipes, (1999) Chronicle Books, San Francisco; The Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook (2000), The Harvard Common Press, Boston. The Bread Bible earned the 2000 James Beard Foundation …
The Zojirushi Virtuoso BB-PAC20 bread machine is a 2016 machine. Zojirushi, in early 2020 was marketing the similiar Virtuoso Plus. I found a refurbished Virtuoso BB-PAC20 in an online store. It is a large, heavy, stable machine. It is quiet, compared to other machines I have owned. It doesn’t rattle and try to dance off …