I bought a breadmaker {Pre-loved}….

When I was off work, I spent so much time at home that I got bored enough to rediscover how much I enjoyed making bread.

I’m diabetic so I don’t eat too much myself but I love making food that my family enjoy and even more than that, I enjoyed the process of making bread.

The precise measuring focused my brain when it needed something to focus on, the kneading of the bread gave me a calmness that I find hard to explain and the process of proving the dough gives me almost as much satisfaction as the smells the bread makes in the oven and the feeling of accomplishment when the timer dings and I get to take out a home-baked loaf to serve up to my family.

(I feel very zen even just writing that last paragraph 😁)

I don’t have as much time now that I’m back at work and life is busy again but I do still want to make bread so I decided to invest in a bread maker.

Now when I say ‘invest’, I mean buy one for as little as possible just in case this is a short lived interest now life is back to normal so I had a little search on Facebook Marketplace to see what was out there and I managed to get a cracking deal on a new machine for £10.

It had been used once as the couple who bought it decided that they wanted to enjoy homemade bread in their retirement but in their words ‘it was too much faff’ so they boxed it back up and left it in the cupboard for six months before deciding to list it on Marketplace.

They were so cute when I went to collect it and they invited me in to give me a little bread-making tutorial and they were getting so involved that I didn’t have the heart to tell them that I’d had a bread maker before in the past. 😁

I brought my bread maker home feeling slightly smug that I’d gotten such a bargain and I was convinced that it meant that I’d have super-easy, super-delicious loaves rolling out of my kitchen like clockwork.

The same afternoon I bought it, I got started with the next stage of my domestic goddess bread making journey!  I followed the instructions given in the instruction booklet to the letter and then waited eagerly for my first loaf to come out – I even cooked a gammon joint ready to make next level sandwiches when my crusty loaf of perfection was ready to serve. 

The beeping of the machine told me that it was ready to take out so I opened the lid of the bread maker and found this… 

Something that resembled a brick more than a loaf of bread. 

I convinced myself that something had gone very wrong in the machine as there was no way it was related to my involvement! 

I tried again the next day convinced that my second attempt was going to be as tasty as the first attempt should have been. I waited with anticipation for the machine to beep, opened the lid and was gutted to find that load two was equally as brick-like as loaf one…

Just like the first one, it was similar in looks and texture to some kind of brown wrinkly brick.

Day three of my bread making journey produced slightly better results with a loaf that still resembled a brick but this time, when I sliced loaf three open, it actually looked like bread. Albeit, a very dense and heavy loaf of bread…

So this is where we’re at right now. 

Cass + Bread Maker = Does not equal tasty bread

The bread maker has now been packed up neatly back in it’s box and is now in our Summer house waiting for me to decide if I’m going to try again when we move house or if it’s going right back on Facebook Marketplace.

I am so pleased that I paid £10 for my bread maker rather than the £85 that it was worth new! 😁

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