Comments on: Make Your Own Hamburger Buns

By: Breadtopia

Breadtopia — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:30:03 +0000

Hi Cindi,

Could I be more late in replying? Catching up from the holidays.

There’s no great way of accessing things like this that might be hiding somewhere. I’m always trying to figure out better ways of organizing info on this site.

By: Cindi

Cindi — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:08:44 +0000

Help! I saw this bc I was looking at the recent comments on the right side of the main page. This is a great page, BUT I don’t see any way on the LEFT side that I could have linked to it….. Am I missing something in navigation? I guess I’m asking = are there OTHER pages like this that are there? For example I’ve been wanting to do a “Subway” type of sandwich – is there a page for that & I just don’t know to access it?
Or should a “newbie” take the time to just go through the archives & that’s how I would have found this? Obviously it’s been chatted up since August.
I only found this site this month!
Love the site – keep the recipes coming.

By: Breadtopia

Breadtopia — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:22:20 +0000

Hi Aaron,

That just means until the internal temperature of the bread, as measured by an instant read thermometer, reaches 200°F. That’s the temp where most bread is done baking.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:24:46 +0000

Why does it say “Bake at 400° F for 12-14 minutes or until 200°F.” What does “or until 200°F” mean?

By: Judy

Judy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:59:43 +0000

Joe,
Thanks for this recipe. I had been looking for a recipe to make kaiser rolls for hamburgers and submarine rolls that would hold together but were not so dense as sour dough bread can be. This recipe is wonderful and I will use it often. I doubled it to make 12 kaiser rolls and 8 submarine rolls, and they are wonderful. They are light enough to be used for great hot sandwiches, but don’t fall apart. This recipe is definitely a keeper.

By: jose

jose — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:32:03 +0000

Hi Ed / Bob,
Thanks a lot!
jose

By: Bob Packer

Bob Packer — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:39:42 +0000

Jose/Ed,

I agree with Ed, except that I use 135 grams per cup to err on the side of less flour.
My basic recipe calls for 6 cups of flour and I have 810 grams ingrained in my mind from making it so many times.

For those who have scales, try a little experiment. Scoop and level one cup of flour and weigh it. Now, stir the flour in the container, sprinkle it into you measuring cup and level. Weigh it. Surprised at the difference?

I believe that one of the main reason why people have trouble duplicating other peoples’ recipes is that they do not know how the originator of the recipe portioned out the flour.

Weighing out the ingredients, like Ed does, will give you consistency in your baking.

Bob

By: Ed P - Bellevue, WA

Ed P - Bellevue, WA — Sun, 03 May 2009 01:36:28 +0000

Hello Jose,
I have seen several different volume / weight equivalents used in various recipes with as little as 118 gr. per cup. However, I find that 135 to 140 grams of all purpose white or whole wheat flour = 1 cup . I’ve made dozens of no knead loaves using this ratio.
Here are the basic white bread measurements by weight.
420gr. (3 cups) bread or all purpose white flour.
10gr. (1.5 tsp) salt
1/4 tsp. instant yeast or 3/4 tsp. regular yeast dissolved in the water first
340gr. (1.5 cups) water
Hope this helps.
Ed

By: jose

jose — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:36:43 +0000

hi,
i am used to having things by weight measurement.
In your Basic White Bread Recipe, there is ‘5-6C (1# 13 oz.) unbleached bread flour’. 5 cups of flour is in my scale 600 gram (1 ounce = 28.3495231 grams), which does not seem to be quite right?
could you let me know by weight how much flour is needed in this recipe? I really want to try this basic white bread out!
Thanks very much!
jose

By: Dee

Dee — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:58:47 +0000

Re: Italian spices

Check out Papa Geno’s herb blends for this application (and others.) The spicy Italian is great as is the herbs de provence. For a south of the border kick try the Mexican Madness – which is also a superlative chili spice blend.

http://www.papagenos.com/

Herb blends are under kitchen gifts.