Hi there! Yes, the Homemade course comes with 3 rise cycles and each has a 2 hour limit. At the start of the Rise 2 and 3 there will be a punch down where the bread maker will knead for a few seconds. This helps with getting rid of large air pockets in the bread. You are left with smaller air pockets that make the bread fluffy and with a great texture. Depending on the recipe you can potentially have the dough rise longer than 2 hours while combining the times of the rise cycles but there will be a punch down in between. Let us know if you have any other questions!
Our one pound breadmakers don't have a sourdough starter setting. It's really hard to get consistent results when baking sourdough in the smaller breadmakers. Our larger models, do come with the sourdough starter setting and they include recipes as well!
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Have you used it for kneading dough? if so, does it do a good job? thanks
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On the homemade setting can I set the rise time longer than two hours? Like on the two pound machine
Hi there! Yes, the Homemade course comes with 3 rise cycles and each has a 2 hour limit. At the start of the Rise 2 and 3 there will be a punch down where the bread maker will knead for a few seconds. This helps with getting rid of large air pockets in the bread. You are left with smaller air pockets that make the bread fluffy and with a great texture.
Depending on the recipe you can potentially have the dough rise longer than 2 hours while combining the times of the rise cycles but there will be a punch down in between. Let us know if you have any other questions!
MAESTRO does not have setting for sourdough. 😢
Our one pound breadmakers don't have a sourdough starter setting. It's really hard to get consistent results when baking sourdough in the smaller breadmakers. Our larger models, do come with the sourdough starter setting and they include recipes as well!