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Is it cheating to use a bread machine for the kneading part?
Three years ago I swore off bread machines entirely after a friend in Austin gave me a lecture about how real bakers do everything by hand. Last month my wrist started hurting from kneading a double batch of sourdough, so I dug the old machine out of the basement and used it just for the dough cycle. Do you think using a machine for part of the process still counts as baking from scratch, or am I just fooling myself?
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drew_chen2mo ago
Used my old Cuisinart for two years after a bad flare up in my thumb, and I still called it homemade because I measured everything and shaped the loaves myself. The machine just does the part your hands can't handle right now, which is no different from using a stand mixer with a dough hook. The only folks who care about that stuff are the ones who don't have arthritis yet. Your wrist will thank you, and the bread tastes the same either way.
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