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Well spotted Pete, I too had a Moulinex Multichef which I bought circa 1983 which gave sterling service until about 1996 when it gave up the ghost as I was using it to crush some ice. The box in Reply 3 actually contains a NIB Multichef which I am planning to bring into service soon (but no ice crushing!) as I hate the Kitchenaid FP I bought in late 2014. I also have a lightly used Moulinex as a display item which can be seen in Reply 15
The white Kenwood Chef (also sold in US as DeLonghi) is my newest Chef and has been my daily driver since 2008 or so. Although still working fine (its on display but ready for use) I have replaced it with a Kenwood K-Mix which I got on sale at a good price - thats the one you see in Reply 38. Although the construction does not seem quite as robust as the Chef it is a great deal quieter and it seems to work very well.
In Reply 13 you might have spotted the lovely early 60s GE which you gave me when I visited in 2010 - it is on the shelf with a few other appliances from US or Canada.
Finally the hand mixer is Philips manufacture branded as Hoover - that's from the late 1960s.
 
Bread

Recently in the UK quite a lot of attention is being given to what is termed Ultra Processed Foods (UPF) which refers to chemicals added to cheap ingredients to make the finished product more palatable. "Healthy" or Low fat options are often culprits here and of course the UK has a huge ready meal market, which again are often UPFs - the British have long had a love affair with cheap food and UPFs have had a big influence here too, certainly before Brexit food in the UK was generally a lot cheaper than the rest of Europe.
Concerns are being raised about what these chemicals and additives or doing to our health. "Supermarket" bread is another candidate and it is quite shocking to see what is added to it. So, as part of a move to get away from UPFs, I tried baking my own bread - I have been baking for nearly 50 years but it has taken till now to try bread.

My first port of call was the ever reliable Joy Of Baking website and this was the first bread I tried - see the link below for the recipe. I now flip the quantities of white bread flour and wholemeal bread flour - the result is a bread that is really tasty and keeps well. It does require quite a lot of proving but that is not really any work at all and the results are worth it



https://www.joyofbaking.com/breads/LightWheatSandwichBread.html
 

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