Dough Kneading Machine

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My wife loves baking bread but is starting to find the kneading process a bit difficult. She is thinking about getting a machine that only kneads, ie she doesn't want a bread maker.

If anyone has experience of such a machine and can give a recommendation I would be grateful.

Thanks,
AL
 
Food mixer with a dough hook is the only sensible option but beware dough is tough and heavy stuff and cheaper food mixers cannot cope. I killed one with dough....The one I have now has strict instructions not to use it with dough for more than 5 minutes at a time. Luckily for the bread I do this is about enough to get it reasonable for some hand kneeding afterwards. There is no substitute for hand kneading sadly as it is the only real way to tell how the bread is getting along.

If you have a lakeland store anywhere near by they're usually very helpful and can suggest what to get.
 
Thanks for your reply. We had discounted the food mixer option and were hoping to find a kneader only. Unfortunately they seem to be only available in industrial
size/price :(
 
We must have picked up the one we had at work from "another Source" because I'm certain my boss would never had paid £2,500 on a mixer. £250 maybe
 
Standard Panasonic bread-maker, just use the "dough" program. It will rest, knead, prove, all with controlled temperature, etc. and all you have to do is remove the dough at the end to bake as you please.

It was the program I used the most, as I'm not keen on the standard bread-maker loaf shape or the hole where the mixer blade sits. I will use it again, but I'm now using it for gluten-free recipes and some of these have looser dough than standard recipes. As soon as I get practiced with these new recipes I'll be getting back to the dough-only program again.
 
I have a cheapish breadmaker that does a need and prove phase only. I then add stuff if needed and then cook in the oven. I think most do a non bake option these days.
 
Thanks very much for all your replies. We'll investigate them all. (y)

AL
 
I know it's already been suggested - but I use a Kenwood mixer with dough hook - once ingredients are combined, I use it for 8 minutes on setting 1 and it has coped fine with that for years. I'd also recommend Lakeland. They are brilliant if you ever have any problems.
 
Alastair said:
Standard Panasonic bread-maker, just use the "dough" program. It will rest, knead, prove, all with controlled temperature, etc. and all you have to do is remove the dough at the end to bake as you please.

It was the program I used the most, as I'm not keen on the standard bread-maker loaf shape or the hole where the mixer blade sits. I will use it again, but I'm now using it for gluten-free recipes and some of these have looser dough than standard recipes. As soon as I get practiced with these new recipes I'll be getting back to the dough-only program again.
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I use my Panasonic for the same purpose. Dough for rolls as an example, pizza dough etc.

The model I use has a nut/fruit dispenser too. When actually baking bread with it, the mixing blade is quite small so doesn't leave too big a hole in the base of the loaf.

Steve
 
Interesting, as we used to make a lot of bread and hand-kneaded it after our food processor gave up the ghost. We've recenlty bought the Dan Lepard book on baking "Short and Sweet" and his bread recipes yield a very soft and wet dough. This is easy to knead - in fact, he recommends just a couple of minutes to knock it down - and makes excellent bread.
 
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