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| Hideaway Farmgirl |
Posted - Oct 24 2006 : 06:15:21 AM
Hi farmgirls,
My parents have downsized and have given me a Bread-making machine and a Salad Shooter. Do I keep them or find them a good home?
The posts I have been reading about breadmaking sounds like the homemade bread is the way to go. (Except that one reason my Dad wanted to get rid of the machine was because he was gaining too much weight eating fresh bread all the time!)
The Salad Shooter is the "As seen on TV" and still in the box, unopened. Is it really worth using and storing in the kitchen, or should I put it up for barter?
Thanks for your comments...
Jo
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Oct 25 2006 : 11:09:49 AM
Jo--
I'm with Willowtreecreek--keep the bread machine and toss the shooter--only because I had one, too, still in the box it came in "only seen on tv"...Someone gave it to me as a wedding gift (his family) and after he went, so did the unused salad shooter :). I miss my bread machine, frankly, but something in it broke, and it was going to be expensive to send it back to the company for repair, even though it was under warranty (shipping!). I just figured I'd get a new one, but never got around to it.
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| Hideaway Farmgirl |
Posted - Oct 25 2006 : 05:26:51 AM
Ali, the Salad Shooter is a small appliance for chopping/slicing salad ingredients . it would probably be handy for a large family, but I think I could do it faster by hand when there is just DH and myself to feed.
Brenda has a good point about using the food processor instead, and I do have one of those that sits on my counter (in the awkward corner space) all the time.
I have a separate post going with someone about the salad shooter, Mscwick, but if she doesn't want it I will update here and see if anyone else would like it.
Jo
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| brightmeadow |
Posted - Oct 24 2006 : 6:43:34 PM
I would definitely keep the bread machine. I only make bread in mine about once or twice a week but it is so nice to put all the ingredients in, turn it on, program it, and forget it. I also love it for pizza dough, so convenient, I work on the computer while it is kneading.
I never seem to be able to time the risings right if I make bread by hand and about half the time I do the second kneading too soon - so my loaf isn't as light as it should be - or I wait too long and it rises too high and spills over the edge of the bowl and gets sour. These problems don't exist with the machine.
If you don't have a food processor you might want to try the Salad Shooter, i've never used one but I use my food processor for slicing vegetables for salad all summer long. If you have a food processor, the Salad Shooter would just be a duplication and probably not as good as the real thing. Most "as seen on TV" items i've ever used seem to be pretty cheaply made and gimmicky, don't know if that describes the salad shooter or not!
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| ali2583 |
Posted - Oct 24 2006 : 3:23:08 PM
Hi Jo,
I would keep the bread machine. Like Susan, I just use mine to make bread dough, but then I let the loaf rise and bake it in a pan in the oven.
What is a Salad Shooter?
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| GaiasRose |
Posted - Oct 24 2006 : 11:57:07 AM
I don'tlike bread machines for the simple fact that it doesn't seem to me liek it is actually home made bread....there is something very organic to me about actually mixing (I use a mixer but I also use a wooden spoon) and then kneading the bread yourself....rising and then punching down then rising again and baking.....I love the process and the anticipation. My mom 'makes' bread in a bread machine and to me there is nothing loving about the thunk thunk thunk of the machine while it 'kneads' the dough. I like putting all my love for my family intot he bread they eat. Eh. It's just me.
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| bybiddie |
Posted - Oct 24 2006 : 11:34:40 AM
Hey, Jo - I use my bread machine alot, but I don't bake the bread in it, just make dough. But it is wonderful when you've got a hankering for fresh bread and not a bunch of time. Put everything in the machine, program it and let 'er rip! Then you just take out the nice kneaded dough and put it in a bread pan or shape it how you want. It is very useful for pizza dough. Just my 2 cents!
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| Hideaway Farmgirl |
Posted - Oct 24 2006 : 11:24:54 AM
Good point. Sometimes these gadgets aren't all that useful. DH is not a bread eater so when he finds an unusual bread he likes, he really enjoys it. I would possible use this for that purpose, not for daily baking.
Jo
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| DaisyFarm |
Posted - Oct 24 2006 : 11:14:06 AM
Re: the bread machine...the aluminum doesn't scare or bother me much in these as the baking pan has a nice teflon non-stick coating.   Having said that, I do have one I received a few years ago as a gift. Now I only use it for doing the dough for dinner buns on special occassions when I've got a million other things on the go. I can't see the point in using all that energy for one loaf of bread when I can bake four just as easy in one big bowl, mostly because it gets half eaten as soon as it comes out!
Di |
| Hideaway Farmgirl |
Posted - Oct 24 2006 : 11:04:09 AM
Oh great; a thumbs down on each of them? Janice, I will have to read up on the aluminum thing...news to me.
I think I will be sending the salad shooter to a new home...anybody interested?
Jo
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| Miss Bee Haven |
Posted - Oct 24 2006 : 06:42:56 AM
Hi Jo. Okay, here's the opinion of a paranoid old hippy chick about bread machines...I don't cook anything in aluminum. And I wanted a bread machine when they first came out. So I tried and tried and called and called manufacturers, but nowhere could I find a bread machine without aluminum insides. If anybody out there knows of one, please tell me so I can buy it. I just can't cook in aluminum. Organic Gardening magazine has been decrying aluminum since the 1940's. And the newer research about excess levels of aluminum in Alzheimer's patients makes me really nervous. I've even trained my son(Wow! He listened!!). Like I said, just one opinion. And we hippy chicks have paranoid tendencies, anyhow. :)
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Oct 24 2006 : 06:36:35 AM
I'd keep the bread maker and "toss" the salad shooter.
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