Anyone who has ever tasted homemade bread will forever remember its magnificent, incomparable taste, completely different from the taste of factory bread from the store.
Of course, it is unlikely that many would dare to have a Russian oven in the house and put the dough before sunrise, but now there is an excellent solution for modern city dwellers, which allows you to get freshly baked bread quickly and effortlessly - this is a household bread maker. This versatile device will not only help you bake ordinary bread, but also allow you to taste bread with various additives, knead dough, make a cupcake or Easter cake, and even make jam.
To choose a bread maker from a variety of existing models, let's get acquainted with the functions that these household devices have.
- The basic functionality that almost all models have: the choice of the degree of crispness of the bread crust (from light to dark), the ability to knead dough of any composition and consistency, from yeast to dough for pizza or dumplings, baking French baguettes, characterized by a crispy crust with a soft center. Also, an accelerated baking mode is often found, which reduces the time to cook bread from 4 to 2 hours at the expense of a slight deterioration in its quality.
- More expensive models can also: bake Borodino bread, cakes and muffins, yeast-free bread, bread made from coarse flour, pearl barley, buckwheat, corn and rice flour, make jam and sweet pastries with chocolate, sugar and honey. Think about which of the functions you need. For example, diabetics may find baking made from rice or buckwheat flour the most interesting (such flour is easy to make at home from the appropriate cereal), dieters will want to bake bran bread, and children will enjoy sweet buns.
- An important aspect of the operation of a bread machine is its safety. Therefore, it is wise to choose a bread maker equipped with protection against overheating, against voltage surges and from children. The bread maker program runs for a long time, and its failure due to an instantaneous voltage drop could lead to the fact that in the morning instead of a fresh bun, you will find only an unbaked dough lump. Therefore, in a number of models, the program is memorized, and after the power supply is restored, the bread baking process continues from the point at which it was interrupted.
