This is the recipe I followed that came straight from the bread maker manual:
1 cup water
1 1/8 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon sugar
3 tablespoons butter
3 1/2 cups American bread flour
1 1/2 teaspoons bread machine yeast
Where did this go wrong?
by Professional_Part827
43 Comments
When the machine was kneading, did the dough “march around the pan”, or was it either stuck in place, or just twirling?
Also, you might want to test your yeast… just put some in warm-ish water with some sugar and see if it foams up after a little while. If not, your yeast is dead. (How has it been stored? Is this a fresh jar, or something dusty out of the back of the pantry?)
This looks like a fail.
🥴 😵💫
You probably over measured your flour. About 1/4 cup more water would have saved it.
Use a dry scoop measure that you can level off to measure flour, not a glass jug style cup. Lighten the flour in the bag by stirring it with the cup before scooping. Or spoon the flour into the cup and level it off.
If you pack flour into a cup, you can get like 1/3 cup more of flour in there. Way too much!
Your yeast worked, that’s why all the little balls look puffy.
Be sure to burn it before it evolves overnight…
Grams not cups! Bread making is an art of precision. My guess would be that you need more water as well: with 3 1/2 cups of flour I’d say somewhere between 1 1/2 and 2 cups of water. (I use 500g flour + 300g of water.)
You can get a decent kitchen scale on amazon or at most grocery stores for 10-15$, weighing your flour and water makes things much easier 🙂
Oh… heeey, it.. looks good!
It looks like a rice krispy treat.
You’ve made a cauliflower!
A rare mushroom
Oh
I thought I was in r/whatisthisrock
I didn’t know a bread machine could pre-chew your bread for you too!
Lol what
I dislike this, severely.
Oy vey
AAAAAAAA real bread monsters
KFC vibes
This is wild!
The first advice is always “weigh your ingredients” but I don’t think that’s it here.
I recently chatted with someone who followed a printed recipe that stated 3.5 cups of bread flour was 827g so they used almost double the flour, and their bread came out more bread like than this.
There’s either something violently wrong with your yeast or the bread machine is not functioning correctly.
Volumetric measurements. The amount of flour in a given volume can vary significantly depending on how compacted it is. Measure by weight and find recipes which give measurements in metric.
It is also a good idea to sift the flour before use. If the density is inconsistent it can effect how it takes up water.
This is crazy looking. Never seen anything like this come out of my machine. My recipe is similar but I also add 1/3 cup of milk, and three tablespoons of sugar instead of one, and unsalted butter with 1.5 tsp of salt. I also weigh the flour but that’s not what’s happening here.
Are you keeping the yeast out of the liquid and away from the salt until the machine starts to mix?
The “Kill…me…” bread
Looks like its about to tell me the age of man is over
Looks like you accidentally grabbed the Abby Normal flour instead of American….
I did some quick googling and a bit of math.
1 cup water ~ 236ml
3.5 cups flour ~ 420g
This would give you a hydration of ~ 56.2%, which I think is way too low for a bread machine.
The final product looks more like a biscuit or cookies dough.
I would definitely follow the recommendation to get a kitchen scale and measure everything in grams. Remember 1 liter of water = 1 kg of water, which is nice 🙂
You win.
That is tragic
Not enough water for sure.
Look at it when it’s kneading next time. You want your dough to look like well kneaded play dough before it starts rising.
**Nailed it!**
A lot of folks on here are saying to weigh your ingredients, but I’ll be honest and say I’ve never done that in all my years of baking. I would check your yeast first and make sure it blooms before adding, and I would also watch your machine closely next time you run it and make sure to level your scoops of flour.
Fried chicken, minus the chicken.
You made ” The Aristocrats” of the baking world.
You just baked the plot of The Last of Us
Are you gonna post pictures of the bread? Or is this pile of rice krispie treats supposed to be bread?
You could always send it off for histology…
… But how does it taste?
Respectfully…. What the hell is that?
Did you put the ingredients in the order that your bread machine instructions list? For mine it’s wet then dry then yeast. If you mixed up the order it could have kept things from incorporating and possibly wound up with something like this… I would also check on it every once in a while during the kneading to see if it’s coming into a ball. If the hydration is off it’s pretty easy to just make a quick adjustment at that point.
Yeast is dead?
I’m not pro but something doesn’t seem right here.
On a serious note, sorry this happened.
This looks a lot like what started happening to my bread machine bread when the gears that were supposed to be turning the paddle stopped working properly so it never got a proper knead. Smelled great but that was about it. And the worst part – no window so I didn’t even know until it came finished.
Well. At least it can only go up from here?
Don’t make rice crispy treats in the bread make