Singer Bread Maker for $14.85.
Delivery was $15 for me to 3012
A good idea is to set this to a timer so the bread bakes as you wake up to the smell of fresh bread and then smoke and then your kitchen is on fire and your house burns down. So then you don't have to go to work.
Life hacks.
Edit.
https://easybread.com.au/shop/capsule-bread-maker/
Same breadmaker here for same price
Thanks to mwalks
If you select light loaf at the beginning and then pause it you cannot then change it ? Do you state light crust for that Brioche loaf or just personal preference ?
The light crust is in the recipe of the premix, you can of course change to any type of crust of your preference.
@jpl Why do you not use the water from the water container? Maybe I am missing something.
This is fantastic. Well done!
I don't see the order in my account history
but do have emails and paypal saying i made the order
has it been cancelled or sent ?
anyone in the same boat?
So, mine just arrived today. I unpacked I can't find the mixing tool removal hook or the cleaning brush in the packaging? Anyone else get it? Where did you find it?
There is a groove in some of the foam packaging they have sticky taped in there.
I found mine both in a clear plastic bag but my first attempt to make bread failed. It looks like the mixing tool doesn't spin/missing a piece at the bottom of the baking tray?
One think I noticed when I unboxed mine - it smelled pretty plasticy and also that particular fire-retardant smell, like a new heater.
I am hoping it doesn't fume off too much when it heats up in use.
It will smell a bit. Just waste the 1st or 2nd loaf for training.
Yep, that's my plan
I think the fumes would possibly make the bead taste a bit off so I am going to just make a really simple dough and let it fume out for the first few batches
Don't need to waste ingredients, just run it with water.
It's the element, plastics and Teflon pan fuming off, It happens more quickly as the oven heats up, so its better to make a few sacrificial simple breads to get the bulk of the pong out.
@King Tightarse: Yes understand - though you can run it dry and it will have the same off gassing effect. Doing that now with my 2nd easybread…
@bargainshooter: Oh I see what you mean - run it without anything in it other than water.
Yes, that should work too
@King Tightarse: Well both my essybreads have started tripping the house fuse whent the heating element goes full. Distributor refunding as they think there's something wrong with the pcb. Ugh
@bargainshooter: Have you looked at the cumulative load on that house circuit is not being exceeded? The element coming on obviously is like plugging in a small heater and would add many hundreds of watts
I wonder how they reached the conclusion about something wrong with the PCB? Did it sound like someone 'reckons' or the result of multiple failures etc.
If that's actually the case, they might need to recall them.
Got a shipping confirmation email today. Due for delivery today via Startrack express. Hopefully all parts included and it works
lol at the sticker.
did you photograph the end product?
lol that's ugly! As long as it tastes fine eh. I guess with experience will come better bread.
mine arrived today.
Used the recipe you posted further back in thread (from comments in Youtube video) with a couple of modifications as basis for my first attempt.
Used 1.5 tbsp olive oil instead of butter.
Weighed 360g of this flour (put in last after all other dry ingredients in that recipe).
https://www.laucke.com.au/Catalog/wallaby-flour
Set to medium.
Got a very nice cube shaped loaf, risen all the way to the top of the tray, golden brown, crunchy outer crust. Would've taken a photo but already half eaten :-).
tileys
I actually like the shape of yours - would go well with rye, wholemeal or seedy mixes that want to try.
Did you use less than the 360g flour to get that rounded top?
@opposablethumbs: Yes - that was 250g - half a 500g Laucke Crusty White Loaf bag. Thanks for letting us know on your recipe findings - sounds great.
I might try the other 250g today with some rosemary and dried onions.
@tileys: Thanks tileys.
Made another white bread loaf using light setting and only 330g of above Laucke flour.
Came out probably even nicer than the first.
My young daughter loves it fresh out of the breadmaker :-).
Will experiment with a few different flours and lower amount to see if I can get that rounded dome top, so it looks a bit more "artisanal" :-p.
For the price, am still very happy with the purchase.
Hi mine has just arrived. It does state on box solely for use with easy bread capsules. Can someone who has it confirm they have made bread without and post successful recipe?
Thanks
Edit, easy bake just emailed me:
As per our website the capsules are no longer available. We also have the instructions on how to use it without the capsules which I have also included below for you:
Bread Maker Instructions:
To make basic bread follow these steps:
Fill the water tank with lukewarm water (35c – 40c) to a minimum level (400ml).
Open the drawer, add 1 tablespoon of olive oil and a pinch of salt.Add 360g bread flour + 7g dry yeast into the bowl.
Close the drawer and press “Start”.
Bread Maker Instructions with Timer:
Fill the water tank with lukewarm water (35c – 40c) to a minimum level (400ml).
Open the drawer, put 360g bread flour + 7g dry yeast into the bowl.
Add 1 tablespoon of olive oil and a pinch of salt
Close the drawer.
Press the UP/DOWN buttons to program the number of hours until when your bread should be ready. The hourglass will start flashing when you press the buttons.
While the hourglass is flashing press “Start”.
Tips:
To get a good rise, slightly mix the dry ingredients
For extra flavour, additional dry ingredients can be added for example salt, sugar, fine coconut, raisins etc.
Recipes:
White bread:
360 grams bakers
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon oil
1 sachet of LIGHTHOUSE yeast + improver
White Bread with Seeds
Plus 50 grams seeds. I use Lucky seed mix (pepita, sunflower and pine nuts)
Add the seeds at the same time as flour etc.
Laucke Crusty White Pre-Mix (Half Packet)
300gm pre-mix (half packet)
60gm bakers flour
4gm Laucke yeast
1.5gm bread improver
50gm seeds (optional) (Lucky Natural Seed Mix with Pine Nuts)
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon oil
1⁄4 teaspoon salt
More recipes can be found here: https://easybread.com.au/recipes/
Kind Regards
Yeah I saw that just didn’t know if it had be validated in this machine
Well then that's a paddlin
I received PM asking why water hack and why magnet hack.
Basically this machine is designed for capsule mix, and the amount of water the machine will dispense is fixed to about 200ml ± 20ml. This means you cannot bake you own recipe that requires different amount of water.
By letting the machine dispense the water first then pour away (water hack) or fooling the machine that it has already dispensed the water (magnet hack), you can then put in your own recipe that has different mixture and different amount of water than the machine will automatically dispense, as long as the flour mixture is not over 360g.
so the machine draws all the required water only in the first minute? no more water from the tank for the next 2 hours?
Yes.
if you need more water you can open the top lid(capsule) and push down the 2 metal plates at the base and pour the extra water. I used a syringe to add the extra water. You can also remove an discard the piercing frame in the capsule holder as it’s not needed.
Do you know how we can increase the timer to proof the bread longer?
Look here's one on Gumtree https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/templestowe-lower/small-appl…
They deserve a paddling!!
Offer them $13
Tested it out this afternoon - I didn’t follow an exact recipe but complexed it up by adding milk, raisins, condensed milk and an egg - turned out a bit more cake like than bread but the kids loved it. I paused it multiple times to see what’s happening and found the mixing paddle doesn’t reach the edges well so lots of flour isn’t mixed properly - so I mixed some manually by sticking a chopstick in. When I poured the bread out the mixing paddle was stuck in the bread - so I had to cut it out .
Mine arrived today, first attempt to make bread failed miserably.
I'm afraid something is missing at the bottom of the baking tray, the mixing tool doesn't spin at all although I can hear the motor making spinning noises.
Can someone please tell me if the bottom of their baking tray looks like this? https://imgur.com/EJ2DX6s
Thank you
Yep definitely missing a part. Meant to have another plate with two prongs attached to engage the motor.
Thanks for confirming. Does the plate come attached to the tray or you have to “install” it?
I have double checked the box but I cannot find any loose parts :(
I have emailed the company asking for help
Nope it’s all preassembled and doesn’t appear to be a removable part. Sounds like yours wasn’t made right
I made my first loaf today with 335 grams strong flour (trying for 3 loaves per kg of flour), 1 tablespoon olive oil, 7g yeast and a pinch of salt. The bread came out looking flat and deflated. It was crusty on the outside and soft in the middle but no nice bread smell and a bit bland. Needs milk I think. I wonder if using milk powder would work. Saves messing around with the water hack. I used the middle setting for brownness.
Does your recipe ask for 200ml of water? Without water hack, I found out that it will dispense from around 175ml to 220+ml of water. The difference is so big that it will affect the end result.
I just based it off the basic recipe but less flour. I can try more flour next time. Overall it was still soft inside but very crusty and crunchy outside. Will try adding more salt as I read if you have too much yeast and not enough salt to deactivate the yeast it will crater.
If you want to get 3 loaves from 1kg of bread-flour, just add some plain flour to each loaf, so as to get the right water:flour ratio.
Olive oil is good - don't use milk. Milk powder can help if using all plain flour, but better to get high-protein flour, as you have done.
I used 380g of bread-mix, and the dough looks good.
Tried my first loaf today. Got an E1 error maybe an hour in or so.
Unplugged and plugged it back in but now I have dough that is ready to bake. Anyone know how to make it go straight to oven mode?
I used the magnet trick to restart it without adding more water and it's kneading again which is fine but it would be nice to be able to skip straight to baking if I have a ready dough.
Just got mine. Honestly, never made bread before so complete noob. Any guide/instructions on how to make sour dough with this thing?
1st try today with machine, was successful. Just found a cheese bread recipe on youtube.
In mixing bowl (wet ingredients 1st) 4g sugar, 5g salt, 3g yeast, 45g melted butter, 1egg, 125g warm milk, chopped spring onions, cheese, 250g plain flour. Hit start, but because I didn't know how the water tank worked, I had paused machine to tip some water out that it added from that and added extra plain four maybe 100-150g more? due to the extra water. Hit continue and turned out great.
Good luck guys with your bread.
My arrived today. It is of easybread not singer brand.
Does anyone know how to only kneed the dough and not bake it ?
I want to kneed and rest dough for flat breads.
You can stop it before raise or before bake.
I imagine it is manually stopping . So need to watch out for that and not leave it unattended.
Was planning to put everything in the night before. Set a time to kneed the dough early in the morning. But I think I will need to time it such that it doesn't start cooking before I wake up !
Here is a solution: time how long it takes until start cooking(let's say 1hr), then, connect the machine to a wifi plug and the night before cooking put a timer on the machine before you go to bed(let's say at 11pm program the machine to start in 7 hours at 6am). Then all you have to do is put a timer on the wifi plug to shut off power at 7am and voila :)
Got mine delivered today.
Used this recipe sussed out by tileys:
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/9597446/redir
Very impressed with the first attempt. Add ingredients, set and forget.
Yummy fresh baked half-sized loaf with minimal effort.
Owned some of the bigger breadmakers in the past, and as you don't use any preservative often didn't use use up a whole loaf in a few days.
Would then need to freeze or discard remainder, but always found bread made by this method tasted a bit chewier after freezing.
Very happy with the smaller size as likely to use up quickly in a day or two while at it's freshest and very easy to have another loaf in just 2h10min. more :-).
Just need to see how it goes with wholemeal flour, adding seeds etc. as sometimes the rising process is a bit impeded by weightier additives and you end up with a much doughier/chewier result.
For $30 delivered though, am very happy with it so far.
Mine just arrived from East Bread, but didn't come with the yeast that was mentioned by other people. Did anyone else miss out on the yeast?
No yeast in mine from Singer directly.
Think you might be confusing with the post talking about yeast that comes in a Brioche pre-mix purchased separately and how to get a lesser amount of water required for that mix, than the 200mL dispensed as part of the standard cycle with this machine.
I certainly am, good catch.
Is there any difference between adding the dry ingredients directly to the bowl and adding them to the top where the capsule would normally go?
adding them to the bowl is less messy :)
I just made the brioche mix someone linked to earlier, it turned out well but tastes a bit chemically, hopefully the next attempt will be better once the machine losses that smell. I'll be trying white bread next, someone in the youtube comments said they used all purpose flour (robinhood?) to make their white bread but I thought I had to use bread flower? Does anyone know if that will work, I'm new to making bread.
Just made my first loaf, but the door won't open to take out the bread.
Tried turning it off and it still wouldn't work, turned it back on and still can't do it. Is there a trick to opening it after it finishes cooking?
Was still locked up, used brute force.
I used the stick to lift the bowl a little bit up then the door would open fine
First attempt worked out well.
Did it outside to let it fume off: https://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/14594/84675/img_202011…
Bread looked good and had a good texture: https://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/14594/84676/img_202011…
3.5 grams of yeast, regular plain flour and medium browning setting - the white bread recipe here: https://easybread.com.au/recipes/
Looks amazing KT!
Looks good. My first two attempts it's cratered and never domed like yours. 7g yeast satchel which might be too much yeast.
Thanks guys - I have actually never baked any bread before so it was just random luck but I am definitely happy with the results. Going to make another tomorrow
Edit: I just realised the basic recipe that came in the invoice pouch didn't have sugar in the recipe. Might try next time as I think the sugar feeds the yeast to help it react better. Anyway trial and error makes it fun
Looks great! Did you just use half the packet only yeast or yeast+improver?
Just yeast - used 1/2 a Tandaco sachet from Woolies
Dads been making anything but bread lol we don’t have a stand mix and he’s made Vietnamese sponge cake and honeycomb cake 😅😂
I didn't realize you could make cakes in it too. That sounds delicious
I tried making banana bread yesterday. Complete fail. I think because I put yeast at the bottoms, didn't stir it through and also added 1 mashed banana at the top. Should try mashed banana first next time.
Whoa, what happened?
Wait, how did that happen?
So, ordered 4 of them, it had free shipping.
Got a call a few days ago that they can't do free shipping. will have to be $15 extra per bread maker for shipping, so went with 3. Was told I'd get shipping information
Still gotten no shipping information :/
$15 postage on each?! I bought 2 with $15 postage TOTAL.
Did both of them arrive?
Yes, both arrived together in separate boxes.
@Miyagi: Wow, thanks for telling me all this.
I e-mailed the company and will ring them up tomorrow, obviously not happy at all now.
I was even 100% understanding when they originally called me
@BarginGrabber: No worries. Here's a pic of my invoice if it helps.
https://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/247882/84747/breadmake…
i got a call saying they cant do $15 flat shipping either for multiple! Not sure if I want to fork out another $15 per breadmaker (which makes it $30 each) considering ppl have been haaving issues and being refunded $15 so have wasted the $15 shipping
I tried the following recipe tonight and worked well
330g Lighthouse wholemeal bakers flour
30g plain flour
35g powdered milk
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon olive oil,
about 3.5g dry yeast
200ml 35-40C like warm water (just filled the normal tank to 400ml)
Crust set to medium
I put the yeast first but had to guess how much was half a 7g satchel. I think 7g is too much yeast and may cause the bread not to rise as much. Using half gave better results I think. But the first time I didn't use sugar so that could have been it too. Anyway I'll continue to experiment
So I used the above recipe again today but also added 5g bread improver. It rose HEAPS more to the pint where it nearly got stuck. Also changed to light setting for the crust.
was the light setting a better outcome? could you post a pic?
@0 0 0: wow.. almost 1.5 times the size with the bread improver.. let us know what it looks like when you cut the bigger one! thank you for sharing :)
Nevermind, I just realised that won't work. I'm going to see if I can slide a magnet between the water tank and the sensor area