Automatic bread making

On Sun 20 Feb 2005 03:39:30p, Tregaque wrote in rec.food.baking:

Or perhaps in yours, as I'm seeing multiples of each of your posts.

Wayne

Whatever sex your spam is tiresome! Pull your plug!!

Well in the first place, How did you "Calculate" The caloric value?

I imagine the OP calculated the volume of ingredients going into the same thickness of slice.

100% whole wheat bread is typically quite dense. Whole wheat flour also contains the wheat germ, which contains fat.

Nothing is in dispute here, it's just a collision between preconception and reality.

The factory bread's flour is spiked with vital wheat gluten and other products to make a lighter loaf than is possible with just whole wheat flour, water, salt, yeast, and oil.

Well, More than likely, The reason the survey came out the way it did, was that you sent in a thousand votes for the bread maker and the footspa. Just because a bunch of Brits in your town don't use them...doesn't mean that bread machines are no good. There's nothing better than coming home from work, throwing the ingredients for french bread in the maker, setting it on dough... and going about your business for 1hr. and 20 minutes (wait a minute, You use the metric system over there!... How long would 1.33 hr. be over there in jolly ol' England?) coming back Punching it down... rolling and tossing it ''til it's around 18" (OOPS! sorry uh... 457.2 mm or there abouts) Brushing the surface with extra virgin olive oil, throwing about 6 oz./177 cc of tomato sauce on top, 226 or 227 grams of mozzarella Cheese, another 200 grams of Black olives sliced, 454 grams Italian sausage (cooked and crumbled), Some sautéed onions and green peppers maybe some chopped fresh garlic... and possibly some crushed anise seeds... and about

226 grams of mozzarella on top of that... then slapping in a preheated 475° (F) 246.111(C) for about... 11 minutes... uh sorry uh... 5.4545454545454545454545454545455 % of an hr. Anyway.... Take about 20 minutes.... .33% of an hour, all told, hands on, Much less time than it takes to go to one of the million (How do you say million in metric) pizza joints here or wait 1.5 hr for the delivery... BETTER TOO! Then there's always a french loaf that you can make from the same ingredients FRESH without putting on an apron of changing clothes, or going to the store...

But SOME PEOPLE are traditionalists! They'd DIE rather than use a stinking bread machine! Some people don't have any time so they buy all their bread!