Tips for Baking Gluten Free Bread in a Bread Machine

If you’ve ever tried to make a homemade gluten free bread from a bread machine, you know that there can be quite the learning curve.   This is because gluten free bread isn’t made in the same way as a traditional bread.

The author of Gluten Free Cooking School recently took the time to answer some reader questions and built it into a very informative post:

Questions about Bread Making:

1. I just bought a bread machine, and was impressed that it has a gluten free setting on it. It makes 1.5 and 2 pound loaves. Can you tell me what size is your loaf? I’m thinking it’s a 1.5 after reading the blog; but not sure.

I think that it’s a 1.5 lb loaf too, but I’ve never actually measured it.

2. The bread machine directions says I have to put in the wet ingredients, then the dry, then a small hole for the yeast. That’s not how your gluten free bread recipe goes. Since I’ve never used a bread machine before this one, I’m not sure if I will hurt the machine by not using the paddle and just putting it all in.

Either method should be fine. The reason that I mix the dough in a bowl and then bake the bread without the bread machine paddle, is that I’ve lost the paddle. After years of baking without a paddle, my machine is not showing any ill effects. However, I used to follow the normal bread and you should be able to do that with my recipe without any problems.

If you are interested, click over to check out the other questions and answers.