The Retirement Thread

[Flick of the Elbow]

Good morning all, another wet one here too.

 

[Gunk]

Friends round for dinner this evening. That means Mrs Gunk will insist on spending all day turning our humble well lived in home into some sort of minimalist showhome

 

[Dave7]

Have a look at the instruction booklet. It will give you various reasons why it didn't rise.

Sometimes it just happens

Problem with my loaves is that they rise more at one end than the other. I think it's a problem with the machine.

 

[Dave7]

Good morning all, another wet one here too.

Too much personal information there

 

[Tenkaykev]

Can't help I'm afraid as I have never er used that flour.
After several failures I started add 50% extra yeast which helped.
Is your yeast fresh ??

Packet yeast, though it works ok on other flours. I put some in a cup of lukewarm water with a bit of sugar to test it and it was fine. The bread is perfectly edible, just a bit dense, great for dunking in soup.

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Yay! It's you know what.
Looks like I've sold the lawnmower that was gifted to me; someone coming this evening to have a look - and I also have two others after it. 60 quid profit for a bit of enjoyable tinkering. Not bad.

 

[Dave7]

Packet yeast, though it works ok on other flours. I put some in a cup of lukewarm water with a bit of sugar to test it and it was fine. The bread is perfectly edible, just a bit dense, great for dunking in soup.

Yes.....when my loaves are too dense they make nice toast.

 

[welsh dragon]

Problem with my loaves is that they rise more at one end than the other. I think it's a problem with the machine.

It could be the element

 

[Sterlo]

It could be the element

It could be the user.

 

[numbnuts]

After a bit of advice from the bakers on here. Mrs Tkk's loaf came out of the Panasonic not having risen much, it's a malthouse flour. Any idea what's going wrong?

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Not enough yeast or out of date. I find a full brown bread does not rise as good a white, I now do a 3 cup white to one brown.

 

[numbnuts]

Morning I have risen........ unlike that loaf

 

[Dave7]

It could be the element

Yes, I think so......warmer at one end maybe.

 

[Dave7]

It could be the user.

No....I am confident of that. I do everything carefully but it happens every time. They are edible but just not even.

 

[Dave7]

Not enough yeast or out of date. I find a full brown bread does not rise as good a white, I now do a 3 cup white to one brown.

I do the same. I much prefer wholemeal but it needs white flour to rise. But I do 3 brown to 1 white.

 

[Mo1959]

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