I'll try to explain something.
We have a roll recipe. To cook it by hand we need
1. Heat food to the general temperature specified in the recipe.
2. Make a high-quality kneading of the dough for N-minutes with M - kneading speed. In a complicated version, this kneading should be done in stages: first, simple ingredients, then, for example, baking, even later - raisins)))
Dancing from the recipe, the process temperature is also important here. Kneading is done with or without heating.
3. Next comes the proofing, that is, the time of rest and raising the dough.
Depending on the recipe, their quantity, time and each of them depend !!! can occur at their own temperature. The number of strokes, their strength and duration also depend on the recipe.
Let the Basic mode according to the plate in the instructions, for example, look like this:
- temperature equalization 30 minutes to 30 degrees
(this is the first stage - heating the ingredients to the same temperature, tempering the yeast and other preparation)
-kix 30 minutes with heating up to 28 degrees
- proofing for the first 20 minutes at 30 degrees
- warm-up 30 seconds
- second proofing 60 minutes at 30 degrees
- warm-up 30 seconds
- final proofing 40 minutes at 35 degrees
- baking at 160 degrees for 50 minutes.
You must choose the proportions of the ingredients so that you get a decent option when performing the regime.That is, if you take a bread recipe for this mode here on the forum, you will get delicious bread on the machine.
Well, I'm a little cunning. Something else depends on the quality of the flour purchased. Sometimes you have to stick your nose in and slightly adjust the amount in the recipe.
(See "kolobok rule"). But in most cases, baking can be done fully automatically.
You see in the plate of the Main Mode hard !!! scheduled cooking process, tough !! scheduled time and temperature at each stage, and this is the principle of operation of any automatic bread maker.
Attention!!! Realize to yourself that at home you manually stuck your nose into a pot of dough - and it has not risen yet, you still kept it warm. But in xn, this will not automatically work. Exactly through the prescribed !!! number of minutes she will bake you bread.
To extend the rest time, you need to stop the program and then somehow contrive to start another mode. Or just let it stand and then bake by hand. There are a lot of options depending on the choice of modes in the bread maker.
Let's say you need to bake sourdough bread. That is, on 500 g of flour you want to put 100 g of sourdough and ferment the dough at 20 degrees in the kitchen for about 7 hours.
It is immediately clear that the above mentioned mode will not suit you.
You need to see in the mode plate of any hp if there are modes with fermentation for 7 hours at 20 degrees))))
If there is no such mode, you need to combine a couple of modes.
From here you can estimate what this or that HP is suitable for according to the manufacturer's understanding.
Open its instructions and look carefully at least the time of the programmed modes. If the temperatures are also indicated, generally good.
If you need 7 hours of fermentation according to the recipe, and there is only 3 hours on the plate, and even at high temperatures, then you will have to run this mode 1.5 times and there can be no question of automation, although as a result of manipulation the desired bread can be achieved.
But if you choose recipes, adjusting to the hard-coded time in the HP modes, then the baking is automatic.
HP Panasonic offers delicious automatic !!! baking with yeast, a limited version of sourdough bread using the longest mode (there is the longest fermentation at a low temperature) - French, or a combination of modes for other recipes with sourdough, different types of rye bread and other complex recipes.
That is, if you do not engage in fermentation delights, there will be no gimmicks. Otherwise, yes, you will have to combine modes, gimmicks cannot be avoided.
But ... making sourdough bread is by definition the most tricky dough making. Because the lifting force of a home-grown sourdough depends on a bunch of factors, and the quality of the ingredients in the recipe is different for different purchases, it will not give you the opportunity to bake bread without looking.
The programmable bread makers have advanced features.
There you can expand the rigid framework of the programmed proofing time and temperatures for yourself.
The weaknesses of all CPs are strictly individual.
Build quality, baking quality (that is, bread crusts), programmed modes - everything is different and must be selected to suit your taste.
Summary.
If you arrange proven recipes for Panasonic on the forum, you will be satisfied with a minimum of effort. HP will last a long time without causing headaches with the service.
If you want your delights with a fermentation time exceeding 6 hours at temperatures of about 20 degrees and below, with non-standard flour, an increased amount of baking, then dances with tambourines will already be needed, automation will not work.
Added Thursday, 07 Apr 2016 06:08
Also ... bread is baked in different ways. Just in the oven, on a stone, with or without steam. All this gives an individual taste to baked goods.
Baking in HP is a special type of baking. As a rule, it gives bread very tender and fluffy, with a peculiar taste. Someone really likes it, someone not really, they return to the oven.
That is, no one except you will determine whether baking in HP is suitable for you or not. Try bread from friends, there is no other way.
Added Thursday, 07 Apr 2016 06:45
Here's a detailed description of the combination.
Let's say you need to ferment the dough for 10 hours at 20 degrees in the kitchen.
What can be done:
1. Knead the dough on the Dumplings. In this mode, there is no heating during kneading and kneading occurs immediately. That is, after the Dumplings we get the dough in a bucket without heating, its temperature will depend on the temperature of the ingredients being mixed and the temperature in the kitchen.
The dough was received in 15-20 minutes. Now we want to ferment it for 10 hours. We have a French mode (1 hour of preheating (that is, fermentation of our finished dough at a temperature of 24 degrees) + 5 hours of fermentation directly at 28 degrees) = 6 hours, that is, another 4 hours are missing. So we set the delay timer for 4 hours.
Then the combination of Pelmeni + Delay for 4 hours + French mode (6 hours total time) will give
dough in 15-20 minutes of kneading without heating !!! temperature depending on the temperature of the ingredients, that is, as we want it + 4 hours of fermentation at the temperature in the kitchen + 1 hour of standing with heating up to 24 degrees on Franz. mode + 5 hours of fermentation in French mode at 28 degrees = 10 hours of fermentation
How much this is identical to the original plan - you judge.
Another difference: additional kneading 5 hours after kneading))), if you do not pull out the spatula in advance by this moment.
Another combination option:
1. At the beginning choose Pizza (45 minutes heated), not Dumplings. At the exit there will be a dough with a temperature not like in the kitchen, but as programmed in a bread maker)))) + 15 minutes of fermentation in this mode, and then you can also continue ... 4 hours stitching timer + French mode,
or after kneading, immediately use the "warm dough" mode only for proofing for as many hours as you want, and then baking by hand.
But there will be no flips.
And with a delay timer, you need to understand that the dough will be in a bucket without heating at the temperature in the kitchen.