Talk to me about bread

[ailbhe]

So why kneading? If I knead more will it rise better? If I prove it, knead it again, prove it again, will it rise better? What's going on? How does it work? And is there a way to make Linnea do it?

Comments

[buzzy-bee.livejournal.com]

This is why I have a bread machine (even though I often don't bake in it, just mix and knead and prove and knead and prove).

I physically cannot knead bread well enough to make decent bread. Its about making the gluten more stretchy so more air gets caught in it so it rises better. Or something.

[ailbhe]

Can't afford to replace the bread machine's paddle this month. Got binned while I was ill. Bah.

[merryhouse.livejournal.com]

what machine do you have?

[ailbhe]

A Morphy Richards Fastbake thingie. We've already replaced the paddle oncet.