"Boron Elgar" > wrote in message
...
> On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:34:59 -0400, "Nancy Young" >
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Boron Elgar" > wrote
>>
>>> On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 07:55:38 -0400, "Nancy Young" >
>>> wrote:
>>
>>>>Is it possible that bread purists would flip over using the food
>>>>processor
>>>>to knead dough yet a bread machine, no problem? Just curious.
>>>
>>> Making bread should be a pleasure, not a chore, Whatever makes the
>>> task comfortable and makes the bread taste and look the way baker
>>> wants it to, is the method to use.
>>
>>Hey, I agree with that. I'm not a break making purist, though.
>>
>>> There are some types of bread that may require particular techniques
>>> to acquire their crust or crumb, but that is something else
>>> altogether.
>>
>>It just struck me as strange if people would be horrified at
>>the idea of kneading in a processor yet a bread machine would
>>be fine.
>>
>>nancy
>>
> I am not sure anyone would be - wait - let me take that back....there
> will *always* be someone out there who will get into high dudgeon
> because another person does something in a way that is not
> "traditional." Read "traditional" as "that's not the way I do it." If
> there were only one way to do things, none of us would be here reading
> all the posts.
>

Actually, my comment about bread purists needing to avert their eyes was
merely in jest. I really don't care about what someone else thinks of how I
make bread, and I really think very few, even "bread purists," could even
tell the difference unless they saw it being made, I told them how I did it,
or perhaps they saw the hole from the machine paddle.

I, however have actually talked to (not just "heard of") someone who made
bread and absolutely freaked out at the idea of using a bread machine, food
processor, stand mixer, or anything other than hand-kneading. In fact, I
had one, I would probably use a stand mixer with a dough hook.

The Idea for using the food processor came from the new basics cookbook by
Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins. They specifically mention using a food
processor for making pizza dough, but as far as I am concerned, pizza dough
and bread dough are basically the same stuff, one being bake in a loaf pan
and the other is flattened out with tomato sauce and cheese and other stuff
being put on it.

Brian Christiansen