I bought my breadmaker about 25 years ago and had probably used it about 3 times before the April lockdown. It took a few goes to get it right but now I'm hooked. If you use about 1gm of bread improver to 100gms of flour it makes a huge difference and makes the bread last much longer - easily goes 4 days. It takes 5 mins to chuck the ingredients in the machine the night before, set the timer and wake up to the smell of fresh bread. It doesn't always go right at first. This was my first attempt at a 30/70 rye/white bread the other day: Made a few adjustments and got it better: I really don't like shop bought sliced bread any more. You can't beat a 1" thick doorstep of toasted fresh bread dripping with butter and Marmite
My mum had a mangle as well, and I remember her fishing the laundry out of the machine with a big pair of wooden tongs. Eeeh, tell kids that today.....
Tongs were necessary with the Twin Tub as well. It was my Mum's Monday ritual. She never trusted these new-fangled front-loader things.
If I saw one more humblebrag on Farcebook about peoples home made sourdough bread I was going to go mad.
We have been making sourdough bread since my daughter graduated and came home in the summer. ... as a qualified chemist, she is constantly researching different process step changes to find out what makes the best bread... Along with normal yeast bread - a mixture of breadmaker and oven made. We have worn out two breadmakers (machines not minumum wage employees) in the last 10 years ..
Having a twin tub was the height of luxury back in the 50s/60s. My mum worked in an electrical wholesalers and bought an AEG Lavalux (with discount of course) - German industry was just getting back on its feet - I think it may have been aircooled. .