Bread Making

[Talbot]

Does anyone use a breadmaker on their boat with an inverter or a generator? I have to have gluten free bread, and use a breadmaker at home, and it seems reasonable to take it with me and operate from the generator.

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[davidbains]

Anyone have a recipe for breadmaking in a pressure cooker!!

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[BrendanS]

older threads from the forum
and here
there's one pressure cooker possible in there, but most seem to use pans

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[spark]

There was a breadmaking machine on the last boat that I delivered. It worked fine off the inverter (big boat, lots of electrics, probably big inverter) and was reasonably easy to use, only problem being measuring ingredients while the boat is leaping around (the galley was forward and she rolled like a pig). The 1 hour programme was handy for saving battery power.


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[MainlySteam]

They are certainly quite common on bigger boats and the only limitation is the power requirement, so all but one I have seen have been on vessels with generators. I have seen one run off an invertor, but I suspect unless one has a big boat with plenty of battery capacity (that case was on an approx 56 foot yacht with 24 volt systems, no dedicated generator, but lots of generation capacity on the main engine) one would be limited to the knead and rise cycles.

The 600-700 watt typical rated load during the bake cycle (do not know what they actually draw though) is manageable on an invertor providing one has sufficient battery capacity - assuming draw down to 50% capacity one would need 100-120 Ah of battery capacity for a 1 hour bake cycle, plus the knead and rise load on top. But for a small system this is a long hard battery draw which I would not be inclined to do myself. One strategy could be, if one has an invertor, is to do the knead and rise on the invertor and the bake on generator or main engine charging (ie time your main engine battery charge running for during the bake cycle). Of course if frequently in a marina with shore power one can have a big cookup then.

Is something have considered myself (we use a breadmaker at home), but the alternative we usually use is to freeze bread to take with us. With just wife and myself on board we can easily carry a months supply of frozen bread which, in our experience, is about as long as bread will keep in a freezer without loss of quality (white loaves, less than that). This is more energy efficient than cooking it on board as long as one has a freezer and have to run it in any event (we do, as it normally fills up with fish as the store bought items run down!).

If anyone knows the typical current draw of a breadmaker through the knead and rise cycles, I would be interested.

John

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[charles_reed]

Why not do it by hand - I do so regularly and it only takes about 25 minutes and uses no electricity at all.

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[Abigail]

We use a breadmaker, ia an inverter - mostly tied up at the moment so have shorepower.

Mostly we use it to save on the kneading and rising but bake in the oven which works fine. I've heard some people complain they never get bread to bake properly in thier gas ovens, but others seem ok. (We use deisel).


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