Do you know if bread machine recipies and regular bread recipies are interchangeable? There's a yummy sounding recipie on the back of my whole wheat flour bag and was wondering if I just put all the ingredients (with the exception of the yeast)in the same amounts in my machine- would it come out OK? I just hate doing all that kneading myself, LOL

Laura

I use bread machines to make dough.

The answer is no, BUT

you can IF AND ONLY IF you adapt that yummy sounding recipe to the quantities found in the basic bread or bread dough recipe in the cookbook that goes with your bread maker.

That is how I came up with my best ever whole wheat bread dough that I love. I used the Black and Decker (my machines I have 2) recipe for dough to see how much liquid, fat and flour I could use.

Once I knew the liquid, fat and flour ratio (and the yeast and salt) for the dough cycle recipe in my machine I took an old favourite bread recipe and downsized it to fit.

Now you should be aware that most bread machines have one kind of recipe for BAKING IN THE MACHINE

and another FOR DOUGH CYCLE ONLY WHERE YOU TAKE THE DOUGH OUT AND BAKE IT LIKE NORMAL IN THE OVEN.

Apologies for the rudeness of yelling in caps but I've had so many people misunderstand this point in the past.

Dough recipes are TOO BIG for baking inside the machine, they will spill over in the baking and completely cover the elements. You will not be able to completely clean and restore your machine if that happens.

So figure out how you plan to bake that bread FIRST.

In the machine
or
in your oven where you let it rise for the final rising, in ordinary loaf tins then bake in the oven like normal.

If it's in the bread machine then you use one of the recipes from your machine that is intended to bake in the machine as your guide to the amounts of flour, liquid, salt, yeast and fat.

Sugars and additions vary.

Hope that helps

I love dumping my ingredients into my two bread machines and letting them work in tandem.

I have the 2lb size of Black and Decker, and my personal bread recipe uses them to the max on the dough cycle.

I turn the dough out, cut into 4 equal amounts, dump in greased loaf tins and have an oven load of bread ready without aggravating my wrists.

I also use Costco's big tin of Fleishmans ordinary yeast. It is such a savings over the special bread machine yeast and works just fine, tsp for tsp. I don't adjust quantities, it's a straight across substitution.

Geesh! Sounds like you have it down to a science :o)

Sounds like I'd be better off just using the machine recipies for the machine, and everything else goes in the oven. Good thing I asked before I totally ruined my machine- thanks for your help!!

Laura