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Yes, with the dough hook.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Feb 2nd, 2006 at 02:55:55 PM EST
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What a strange idea to me, using a machine to make bread. I always considered kneeding the dough the best part of making bread, relaxing and grounding, a good hands on alternative for to much thinking.
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Feb 2nd, 2006 at 04:02:19 PM EST
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as a massage therapist, who loves the work, i must concur with you.

feeling the gluten 'take' and render the dough almost human in its springiness and softness is a magical feeling.

i love also how, like when lighting a fire, there are all sorts of invisible forces that come into play like humidity, barometric pressure and who knows what else? you can never totally tell how it will go.

knead that baby!

"It's very hard to see what is kept invisible" Roseanne Barr

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri Feb 3rd, 2006 at 06:15:24 AM EST
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I've never taken to it so much and though it sounds lovely and romantic it turns breadmaking from a two minute task to a fifteen minute one. I'm much less inclined to bake regularly in that case.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Feb 3rd, 2006 at 06:23:06 AM EST
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We used to make sourdough regularly (now it's easy to buy organic stoneground sourdough on the local market, so we got lazy), and at first I loved to knead. But it's true it's a time-consuming task, and we got a dough-hook mixer that's well adapted to kneading about a kilo of dough at a time. It saves time and does a better job.

But of course, it's using energy that it wouldn't hurt me to part with myself...

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Feb 3rd, 2006 at 03:35:21 PM EST
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Yes, using less human energy to prepare more food that I then eat with gusto is a trap I keep falling into.
by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Fri Feb 3rd, 2006 at 04:49:50 PM EST
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