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Cathy, I am very intrigued by your bread machine experience and went through that phase myself a few years ago, but did it by hand for a few years after giving up the bread machine because of weight gain–
Now I just got on KitchenAid 600 and am trying to perfect a French bread type of pizza crust that is crusty inside and out? Any ideas there. I am hearing about egg wash and peanut oil, but how can we get crusty under the crust? Any ideas I should try?
Charles
Bridgeport, Ohio
[heart of the rust belt]
Hi Charles,
Thanks for your comments. I apologize for the delay in responding. I didn’t realize I had a comment. The notice must have gotten lost in cyberspace.
I like to bake bread using lots of different methods and tools – the bread machine is just one of the tools I use. I also got a stand mixer recently and have been having lots of fun with it. I like to make bread by hand as well, but have found that using tools is not such a bad thing. Especially when I’m tired.
I know what you mean about weight gain. I have to watch that myself. Not only do I like to bake bread but I love to eat it. I’ve found the answer to that is to give it away so I try to give a lot of the bread I make away.
I haven’t tried an egg wash or peanut oil on pizza, but I do like to make brick oven pizza on a pizza stone using an overnight poolish. The poolish gives the pizza a crisp crust. I think if you roll the dough out thinner and place it directly on the stone, it would be more crispy throughout. However, I happen to like the crispy outside and chewy inside so I place it on parchment paper and let it bake that way on the stone.
If you’re interested in trying the brick oven pizza I like to make, you can find the recipe and instructions here http://breadmakingblog.breadexperience.com/2008/09/how-to-make-brick-oven-pizza.html.
If you do try it, please let me know how it turns out or if you have any suggestions for improving it.
Thanks,
Cathy
The Bread Experience
The bread machines are great for kneading the dough. Save hands, time. Do either of you have strong opinions about the best bread makers? Which ones and why?
Hi Wendy, I don’t use a bread machine very often anymore so I’m not up on the current models and which ones are the better. Horwever, or this bread, you only use it to knead the dough.