Made my first loaf of bread tonight. I'm home on Paternity Leave, and me and my wife were looking for activities to do in between taking care of the newborn. So we did the most cliche nesting activity and made bread. But first I bought a stand mixer, loaf pans, and ingredients. The end result was the best BLT I have ever had. With thick slab smoked bacon. Hence: $300 bread. Also taking submissions for other breads or stamd mixer recipes. Tommorow we try cinnamon swirl..
by Key_Standard_6628
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That means every loaf you make is free until you need more ingredients
You may wish to investigate sourdough, and cooking in a Dutch oven. There are many recipes for no knead bread and some good books.( can recommend them if you are a book person, I am) You may also want to consider making you own pizza dough as well. If you really want to get into it, grind you own grain with a mill. (note that is not really quite and you don’t want to wake the baby)
That sammich looks so good. Well done OP. I’d come have lunch at your casa.
Once you make your sandwich with Japanese milk bread you’ll wonder how you could ever go back
King Arthur website has a great recipe
It looks amazingg! The first bread I ever made (buns) were a bit hard and not very well risen. During the covid years, like most everyone I kind of got good at making really good tasty buns,but no loaves ever came out well.
I finally discovered cold fermentation this year and damnn the few loaves I made are so tasty and are way less labour intensive than buns (and other small shapes). Hoping to start making all wheat bread in some time.
Made my first big batch of home made pizza from Kenji- Alt- Lopez’s recipe and it was unbelievably soft and fluffy. Best pizza in a long time
All the very best on your bread making journey !
These rolls are fantastic. https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/japanese-milk-bread-rolls-recipe
Ah, you are using the woodworker’s method, I see. See what piece of equipment you “need” for each project. That is an excellent $300 loadf of bread.
Going through the photos thinking “where’s the sandwich?, show me the sandwich! Aah, there it is…mmm mmm noice bacon”, lol
Any sort of brioche/enriched dough like brioche buns, challah, maritozzi, babka is fun with a stand mixer, they’re much harder to do by hand. Still a little more advanced so on a day you’re feeling up to a bit more challenge, but not too hard you really risk a ruined/inedible end product
Looks good! Better amortize the costs across more blts
Try Shokupan!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KSVdM6XZ0PU
The cinnamon swirl will cut your cost in half… 😂😉
Can do easy cookie dough in a stand mixer too
Sandwich looks dry af but bread looks swell
Once u make ur own starter you’ll literally never need to buy anything except flour and salt. It pays for itself
I really like adding orange zest to the bread dough of my cinnamon swirl bread.
I’m so happy for you and your future bread activities. Also congratulations on your new addition! (The baby primarily, but also the KitchenAid.)
On the bright side, your next loaf will have cost only $150!
Most vascular bread ive ever seen