What do you use to knead your bread
 

How do you knead your bread? Do you use:

Your hands
Kitchenaid
Bosch mixer
Ankarsrum Assistant
Nutrimill or
Bread machine

I used a Hobart built bowl raise Kitchenaid until I switched to whole wheat and it couldn't handle it. I use an Swedish built Ankarsrum now.

My Zojirushi bread machine.

Kitchenaid

Knuckles! Like grandma did. Don't forget to wash your hands first.

Ever use it to make gluten free bread?

No. I don’t think I have ever even tasted gluten free bread.

I used the Kitchenaid last week to knead some pumpernickel dough.

I knead it with my hands without any machine other than the oven. I mix it in a big bowl with a wooden spoon until it's too thick/dense to use the spoon, and then I use my hands to finish the mixing. I knead the dough on a huge bamboo cutting board, put it back in the bowl and set it out on the lanai to rise with a wet towel covering it for an hour. I bring it back in, punch it down, and set it back out for another hour. Bring it back in, shape it into three braided loaves, set THOSE back out on the lanai for a half hour, give them an egg wash, and bake them.

The whole process, from measuring the ingredients to taking the finished loaves out to cool on the stovetop, is around 5 hours.

It's incredibly zen, focusing, balancing. And the smell is otherworldly wonderful.

Bread Machine
 

Zojirushi bread machine

I put water, sugar, yeast, flour, salt, and oil in the bread machine. That takes about 5 minutes. I then hit start and come back about 4 hours later and take the loaf out of the machine.

Not exactly sure what zen is but the smell is probably similar to your bread.

Feed me! 😛 Please.😌

3 loaves? Save one for me! Sounds incredibly yummy!

From Google's AI thingie:

Baking and gardening are both "zen" activities for me.

The recipe uses 6 cups of flour and 5 eggs, and the risen dough sticks out of a 3.5-quart mixing bowl like a muffin top. The smell permeates the entire house, the lanai, and the porch out front for several hours. It's hypnotic. I think people are really missing out on one of the most joyful "simple pleasures" in life, when they use bread machines. There's really nothing quite like kneading dough.

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Best. French. Toast. Ever.

We have learned to make it with mostly whole wheat flower. Found the way to get it lighter is to do the first rise about 3 hours and second at least 90 minutes.