So after we went shopping last night and stocked up on flour/fast action yeast/dried skimmed milk powder for the breadmaker, we came home and Kathryn set to making a cake to use up some gooshy pears, and I set to using the breadmaker.
After piling the ingredients in, it became apparent that the kneading blade wasn’t, well, kneading. A bit of poking around and there’s something missing. I was planning to get a new bread pan and a new kneading paddle anyway, just because the previous owners were smokers and despite cleaning it as best I could I don’t…I don’t like it, k?
Anyhow, I kneaded it by hand, dumped it back in, just so as we’d not waste the pile of ingredients and left it running. I expected to come down and find soggy but made bread. What we’ve got is uncooked dough.
It seems that not only is the kneady bit not working, nor is the heater element. But oddly it’s not reporting failure to reach temperature. It’s just sat displaying the time count down. This makes me confused. It should be reporting that the machine is failing to get up to temperature…unless the thermostat is dead. Anyway.
Yesterday’s utterances from the previous owner that it works fine, it’s just not being used anymore are…well…seeming a little…overzealous. It clearly doesn’t work fine, and is missing parts :-/
I’ll probably poke at it and see if I can get it to pieces and then see if I can get it working :-/
Kathryn’s cake however, that looks lovely.
