I've looked at recipes at King Arthur, for things like French Bread
made in the bread machine. Every one of their recipes seems to assume
that you can NOT have a rest period for temperature equalization
somehow... That you can turn it off so that the machine starts
kneading your dough immediately, and that if you want to do a second
knead you can simply stop the machine when it finishes the first knead
and restart it immediately.

I have a Black and Decker, and there is NO WAY that can be done with
these machines. All Black and Decker bread makers have a built in
temperature equalization rest period when you press the start button,
of about 20 minutes. Then it will start kneading, with 2 minutes of
pulse kneading, followed by the reqular kneading.

So what does one do if they have that type of bread machine? I've
never figured out how to immediately restart the knead if the machine
does not permit it. I do NOT want to knead by hand instead, so do not
suggest that is the solution.

There are thousands of Black and Decker bread machines in use,
incidentally, here in Canada. They are sold by Sears, Canadian Tire,
Wal-Mart, Zellers, etc. all over the country. Not one cycle in any of
them that I am aware of that does not have that temperature
equalization period, except for the newest machine with a jam feature.
It MAY have a jam cycle without that rest period... I just do not
know.

FWIW

RsH

In article >,
RsH > wrote:

> I've looked at recipes at King Arthur, for things like French Bread
> made in the bread machine. Every one of their recipes seems to assume
> that you can NOT have a rest period for temperature equalization
> somehow... That you can turn it off so that the machine starts
> kneading your dough immediately, and that if you want to do a second
> knead you can simply stop the machine when it finishes the first knead
> and restart it immediately.
>
> I have a Black and Decker, and there is NO WAY that can be done with
> these machines. All Black and Decker bread makers have a built in
> temperature equalization rest period when you press the start button,
> of about 20 minutes. Then it will start kneading, with 2 minutes of
> pulse kneading, followed by the reqular kneading.
>
> So what does one do if they have that type of bread machine? I've
> never figured out how to immediately restart the knead if the machine
> does not permit it. I do NOT want to knead by hand instead, so do not
> suggest that is the solution.
>
> There are thousands of Black and Decker bread machines in use,
> incidentally, here in Canada. They are sold by Sears, Canadian Tire,
> Wal-Mart, Zellers, etc. all over the country. Not one cycle in any of
> them that I am aware of that does not have that temperature
> equalization period, except for the newest machine with a jam feature.
> It MAY have a jam cycle without that rest period... I just do not
> know.
>
> FWIW
>
> RsH

I'd be sorely tempted to ask King Arthur and tell them what you've
posted here.

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