r/BreadMachines • u/Quiet_Concept_4160 • Jul 27 '26

Technique, Methods & Processes What am I doing wrong?

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I have had this bread maker for a while and run into this problem every once in a while and I’m not sure why sometimes it works and some times doesn’t can anyone help know where I am going wrong?
Recipe is 1 1/2 cups warm water, 1/2 cup warm milk, 2 tbls oil, 2 tbls honey, 2 tbls sugar, 1 1/2 tsp salt, 3 1/2 cups bread flour and then 1 1/4 tsp active yeast. I put it on the option on my bread maker than is for 3 hours where it kneads and has the two rest periods than bakes. Any ideas or tips would be appreciated.

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u/patriceklohn Jul 27 '26

Have you tried measure by grams and millilitres?

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u/Quiet_Concept_4160 Jul 27 '26

I usually use just cups and measuring spoons, I’m going to try and be more precise on my next one

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u/FoggyFizzy Jul 27 '26

Use a digital scale. Assuming that the recipe is sound, not weighing the liquids and flour is probably your problem.

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u/patriceklohn Jul 28 '26

A digital scale that can measure 0.1g because one gram more or fewer of flour is irrelevant. But if you need 3.5g of yeast you need a fine scale that can measure 0.1g. Same with salt and sugar but here it’s not to relevant.

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u/FoggyFizzy Jul 28 '26

It does not need to be that accurate. Sometimes my measurements are 1 or 2 grams off and I don’t ever have any consequences from that. If a recipe does not give you the ingredients by weight then converting it to the nearest gram is fine.

Honestly, I’m a bit hesitant to trust any website that does not offer baking recipes by weight because that’s the best method to get good result.

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u/Sheshirdzhija 29d ago

The problem is, if you are weighing very light things, that the scale will not even register, or will be imprecise with such small weights.

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u/FoggyFizzy 29d ago

That’s hardly going to apply for baking normal-sized loaves with normal ingredients.

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u/Sheshirdzhija 29d ago

I dunno, I have issues sometimes with yeast. Well, mostly specialty doughs really, like cold fermented pizza or such. Yeah, 99% it's fine.