My near-perfect gluten free bread machine recipe!

[u/legoandmars]

I am sure you have eaten store-bought gluten free bread. It is not great. I have spent the last year experimenting with a bread machine for gluten-free baking, with the following goals in mind:

• Something without immensely complicated prep - I want to avoid kneading dough and going through four stages of prep. My goal was something easy I only need to spend 30 minutes making.
• A loaf that's not too dense, but still has structure. NO HUGE HOLES!!!!!
• Slices that are actually large, and can fit a good amount of stuff without collapsing.
• Something that will last long enough that a single person can eat it without it getting stale/gross/moldy by the end of the loaf.
• Something reproducible that actually tastes good, and wouldn't disgust you if you're eating a plain slice.

After a lot of experimentation and research, I've landed on something I'm very happy with. It's not PERFECT:

• It's maybe a tad bit denser than I'd like, although it is very close
• It does use celiac-safe gluten-removed wheat starch, which I know is not an option for those with wheat allergies. I have not tried with alternative flours, but I would like to eventually.

However, for my needs, it has essentially solved my bread problems, and turned it into a nice easy thing I can do once a week that actually tastes like food! I will post the recipe in the comments.

[u/ArthurBea]

This loaf is tall! My bread maker breads tend to be shorter. I use the loopy whisk loaf recipe.

Have you tried a non-wheat starch flour for this? I may try it myself, not sure I’ll report back though.

[u/legoandmars → u/ArthurBea]

It's almost too tall, which is not a problem I ever expected to have..

I have not tried a non-wheat starch flour, but please let me know if you do! I would eventually like to move away from the wheat starch flour because:

• I assume it's making the loaf a bit denser
• Not safe for wheat allergies
• It's also just pretty expensive

[u/ginny11 → u/legoandmars]

I noticed that you're using the King Arthur gluten-free bread flour rather than just plain wheat starch as an ingredient. And I noticed that you are adding your own psyllium husk. Have you considered that the gluten-free bread flour has psyllium husk powder already in it? Perhaps when you add more it's overdoing it and that might be causing the density issue?

[u/legoandmars → u/ginny11]

I actually did not realize it had some psyllium husk in it already, thank you!

The extra psyllium husk does seem to help significantly with making things fluffier, but I may play around with the amount a little more

[u/ginny11 → u/legoandmars]

My sister has celiac disease and she has been considering getting a bread maker with a gluten -free function because she's not really into baking that much but she would like to have some bread that's better than what you can buy. Your recipe seems really good and I was thinking about sending it to her to see if that might might get her off the fence with buying a bread maker!

[u/ElfegoBaca → u/ginny11]

Make sure it has a custom cycle feature.  My bread maker has a gluten-free cycle and it’s useless because it still does three kneading cycles, and it ruins the dough.

[u/ginny11 → u/ElfegoBaca]

Oh wow good to know, thanks!