That’s pretty much it. I love it.
I’ve been making bread at home since covid. Used my Kitchen Aid stand mixer with the dough hook until now, but that always left a huge mess to clean up. Now I prep a week’s worth of dry ingredients in ziplock bags and only have to clean up one mess. I use butter powder rather than regular, and that makes things super convenient.
Before I go to bed, I dump in the water and one of the ziplock bags, set the timer, and have fresh bread waiting for me in the morning.
Congratulations! We got a bread machine at a thrift store a few months ago and it’s been life changing. We use it a few times a week now. So much fun to mess around with ingredients. Speaking of which, butter powder?? What is that? I feel like this could be great for out on the boat.
It’s kind of like powdered milk. I’m not sure about getting it at the grocery store (never looked) but the stuff I have is marketed as survival food. Comes in a big can and you reconstitute it with water.
It’s great for baking and seasoning (put some in a salt shaker and go to town on your popcorn; so good), but it doesn’t work like regular butter in all cases (e.g. it’s not great for sauteing).
I’m lactose intolerant, so I switched to buying powdered milk at the grocery store ages ago since the small cartons I’d buy for cooking always went bad before I used them up. Haven’t had a problem with butter going bad, but figured for baking it’d be easier to just toss the powder in with the dry ingredients like I do with the milk. Seems to work well.
Interesting! Thank you so much for the personal experience using it, I’ll see if I can find some. Cheers!
It’s pretty common in bulk food outlets, you mix a little water in the butter powder, then chill overnight.
Ok cool, I’ll see if Bulk Barn has it. Thanks!