A (nearly) perfect family bakery

With 3 children a family consumes a lot of bread. Bread, brown bread, wholemeal or grain bread, Röstzwiebelbrot for grilling or bread with bacon - everyone wants something different and at today's prices of bread considered to be three times if 3 times a week you go to the bakery and worried each the favorite bread.

A few years ago I bought one of the first breadmaker and gave him the same again - the bread was a little block, and if you do not eat the outer edges and the shredded slices do not want to put through the dough hook on the table, stay away from a 500 grams of bread just 6-8 slices. Tasted the bread has not also, but as I said, that was years ago.

So many years I baked my bread in the ancient art, was every 2 days knee deep in flour, warmed my hearth to Ultimo and annoyed me constantly about the hard work and the dirt, the can cause a simple bread mix for 69 cents. So I gave myself a few weeks ago a jolt and bought the UNOLD Backmeister 68511 with practical accessories for large and small loaves.

Usually I bake every 2nd day with him a loaf of bread from 1000g baking mix and thus get a rectangular loaf of about 1700-1800 grams. If my kids can not decide, I bake with 2 small baking molds 2 different breads, each about 750 g - times wholemeal and Röstzwiebelbrot, times raisin bread and bread or something.

For each baking dish, any desired amount of bread, are in other dough hook, for small or large tin bread in large baking pan 2 each, for small forms depending a hook. Of course, a measuring cup is just as much the delivery, like a hook to remove the kneading hook in the 3rd rising of the dough (highly recommended, because only then you get perfect bread without unsightly holes!) And a measuring spoon for ingredients like baking soda, yeast and salt / Sugar is not missing.

The operation is simple, the accompanying manual full of tips and hints. It contains many recipes (for breads with DIAMOND bread mixes), and a number of possible remedy proposals for small errors. The baking molds are specially coated and the bread dissolves after baking out easily: Just briefly turning the pins for the dough hook on the bottom of the baking pan, plunge the mold gently and each bread slips against the cooling grid.

In order not to miss the 3rd walk of the dough, I often ask myself an egg timer so that I can pull out of the dough, the dough hook on time. Ripping a baked bread with hooks and is unsightly, the discs in the middle you can offer anyone, so that action must necessarily be with me in between. Here I would want an acoustic signal is not wrong to calculate the right time. The display is briefly illuminated only after switching on and during programming. Then, unfortunately, which is a shame no longer, because the walking times are displayed in very small numbers that are barely visible. Without light, certainly not. For this, a clear star-deduction.

The acoustic signals produced by the device, if one is to pour ingredients or when the bread is done, are quite noisy and almost not to be missed. When programming in the evening for the fresh bread in the morning can be annoying for some - I do not use this feature anyway, because then I sleep guarantees the moment when I have to pull out the dough hook.

In addition to the bread you can also Backmeister dough, prepare dough with baking soda (pastry) or even fresh jam. Everything really simple and with success guarantee. Even with heavy sourdough or whole grain flour of Backmeister away easily. For this, however, I recommend using the large form as 2 dough hooks make for a better result.

The dough hook I admit after use in the dishwasher, the forms I clean with a damp dishcloth made shortly. Only every 2 weeks I put the time in the form of the dishwasher, because the coating suffers, as well as with traditional bread forms, with each wash.

The Unold Backmeister is quite big and bulky, but not very hard. For me, he is on a shelf and comes to baking on the stove or the kitchen table. According to the manual you can buy more at Unold all accessories, but if lost or something breaks down.

Many of the accompanying recipes I have to bake - easy and no problem. Bread mixes all manufacturers succeed magnificently. As a bread machine but only on the sides will be hot, can not expect to dark top. Over time, if the machine has been baked to a rye bread is even above pleasant in color, a baker of bread but it is not similar. You can place the dish in the oven yet to Nachbäunen 20 minutes before cooking time, which I think but for smooth energy.

I highly recommend this device without reservation, but prefer a star because of the much too small and unlighted displays (see text).