Kitchen Gadget

This week I was looking in my kitchen cupboards and trying to figure out what I should make. I realized I have a lot of kitchen gadgets. Not mixers and such but odd trinkets. Have you ever seen those trinkets that say, "as seen on t.v."? Well over the years I have collected my fair share either as gifts or I thought they might work. Well I was looking at all of them thinking, I had never tried any of them. Well a few months ago my aunt let me borrow one of those very same gadgets she had bought but never used. Thinking that maybe I would use it. So I have decided to try this gadget.

What I received was a "bread maker" it is more of a bread holder. What the instructions say is to take bread dough and put it in the tin. Then seal it and bake it vertically. Supposedly the bread will bake into what ever shape the tin is. Well I have decided to test it out. Lets see if it not only works but is worth the hassle.


So I have made the bread. I let it rise for about two hours. As you can see it has doubled in size. When you let bread sit to rise make sure to cover it with either a light towel or cling wrap. This will help in the rising process. Then I did what the instruction said.

 I split the dough in half. I decided to see not only if the tin works but if the dough was not in the tin if it would be good bread in general. So as you can see I did half and half. Spray the tin nice and good so nothing gets stuck and I went for it. I'm surprised to say it kind of worked. When ever I see things like this I think they can't possibly work but this one did.

 As you can see both breads look pretty good. The one in the tin did not brown as the other one did. It also did not rise enough to hit the other side so the last piece will be rounded on the end. But that could change if I had added more dough to the tin. I think with a little practice it would work. This little tin came from pampered chef. It has other shapes as well. I'm not sure what other than decorative looking it can do to decorate the dinner table. Though if you have little children it might be fun for sandwiches.

As for next week maybe you have a kitchen gadget in your cupboard. Why not trying to see what you can do with it?