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13th May 2020, 8:35 pm | #21 | |
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13th May 2020, 9:05 pm | #22 |
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My Panasonic bread maker is used quite often. I love the smell it gives off whilst in the baking cycle. I have played around with the recipes in the appliance book and can get some really light crusty French type bread out of it as well as some Italian type bread that uses olive oil instead of butter.
I made a really dense loaf once, that was because I forgot to add much water and made a concrete hardened biscuit!! I have a Kenwood Chef A901 here in full working order with all of its attachments. It was used yesterday to make mashed potato! It is fairly unique as it was one of the engineering prototypes that was given to my dad many years ago. It came with a prototype Thorn microwave oven complete with added thermocouples inside. Was used as the lab experimental and evaluation unit just before domestic microwave ovens were to start taking off. Still going strong! Christopher Capener
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13th May 2020, 10:21 pm | #23 |
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I also have a Panasonic breadmaker, bought for £3 at a car boot sale (it was so cheap, I couldn't say "no"!). It's used every week, and makes lovely bread. All you have to do is measure the ingredients accurately, put them in the tray and press START. It does take 3 hours to produce a finished loaf, but it's fully automatic. After pressing START it can be left unattended so you can go off and do something else while it mixes the dough, allows it to rise then bakes it for you, all by itself. A wonderful invention!
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14th May 2020, 8:17 am | #24 |
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My Panasonic bread maker takes 6 hours to make a very light crusty french bread. Most of this time is the resting period and the rising time where the heater slowly warms the dough to about 30’C. Faster rise times make a more dense loaf.
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14th May 2020, 9:03 am | #25 |
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I made a superb door-stop once, Chris, when I forgot to put the yeast in!
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However it is nowhere near as useful as the two bowl variable speed Braun unit and more messy to clean all the bits! I stand the whole thing on a rubber pad. Blue tack could also be used.
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14th May 2020, 11:43 am | #27 | |
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Used this morning to prepare tonight's tea (or dinner for posh people) is the Moulinex 350 that was left to me by my wonderful mother in law Emily, who found it slightly odd that a man enjoyed being in the kitchen! Anyone for monkfish with a chorizo crust?
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16th May 2020, 1:16 pm | #28 |
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"... my wonderful mother in law Emily, who found it slightly odd that a man enjoyed being in the kitchen!"
She would doubtless have seen what Johnnie had to put up with! |
16th May 2020, 4:50 pm | #29 |
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16th May 2020, 7:55 pm | #31 |
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My favourite quote of Johnny Cradock was " May all your donuts look like Fanny's".
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16th May 2020, 8:32 pm | #32 |
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My wife still uses the Kenwood Chefette she got in the mid-1970's. A decade ago the variable speed contol became erratic, but a stripdown and cleaning of the wiper contacts fixed that. We now have my late mother's identical model as a back-up. The only other issues have been the precautionary replacement of the disintegrating Rifa capacitors of both.
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17th May 2020, 12:23 am | #33 |
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Kitchenaid seem to be the appliance of choice for the affluent classes here in the UK.
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17th May 2020, 9:56 pm | #34 | |
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I've got a very old processor from around 1972 up in the loft. It's in very good condition and in its original box - I'll try to retrieve it in the next day or so to give it a run and take a photo. |
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17th May 2020, 11:28 pm | #35 |
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I have an early 80s Toshiba food processor inherited from my mother. It does see occasional use, but as Dave said back in #5, it does generate a huge amount of washing up after use, which is a big disincentive to using it.
My breadmaker sees a reasonable amount of use. All the cheap ones seem to be essentially the same, and work equally well. It bakes a decent effort free loaf when I'm in a rush, and can be used to do the hard work of kneading dough before I bake it properly in the oven if I want to make proper bread. |
19th May 2020, 9:10 am | #36 | |
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"Well if all your doughnuts turn out like fanny's then you will know who to blame"
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24th May 2020, 5:58 pm | #37 |
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Apparently an urban myth, unless someone knows differently!
From this week's Radio Times.
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15th Jun 2020, 12:26 pm | #38 |
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Spoilsport!
We (still) have a Tefal toasted sandwich maker, but it trips the earth leakage breaker when it's got hot. Even had new elements fitted, and soon after started doing the same. We have and use most days, a Philips food processor bought in 1986 The plastic bowl has so many vertical fractures in it, but is still holding together., how I don't know. All I've had to do over the years with it is remake off the plug a few times. |