![]() ![]() If you are wanting gluten free crumbs, stick with those types of baked products. You can use literally any type of bread product to make crumbs with. What can I use for homemade bread crumbs? So, on to making and how to store bread crumbs - now that I'm an expert crumb maker and all. So if you have a good-quality blender, use it! I now also have a Ninja Blender (and it's not even the most expensive) that will make fine bread crumbs unlike my previous blenders. In the years since I first started making bread crumbs, a whole new selection of professional blenders have become available for reasonable prices. I like the 7-cup size as it seems the most flexible to me- not to big and unwieldy, but not too small, either. So I recommend the 11-cup model shown above or the 7-cup model Cuisinart I bought. I saved up for the "real" thing - and when I made crumbs with it for the first time? Success! Finally.Īpparently the right tool can make the difference. ![]() ![]() The chef simply put the torn bread pieces in the machine, turned it on for a few seconds and, voila! The most beautiful, fine, crumbs just like the ones I used to buy. Then one day I watched a cooking show where they made bread crumbs with this:Ī Cuisinart Pro Classic (Custom is the title now, I think) Food Processor.Īnd my food processing life was never the same. However, I had to make my pesto in a blender because this processor left large pieces of basil in the pesto, which kind of looked like we were spreading grass mixed with oil on our bread. This time the "crumbs" were only slightly smaller - the size of rock salt - but they were a more usable, so I stuck with this model for a few years because I had paid $50 for it (a lot to me at the time). Sheesh, I had managed to do that with my rolling pin!Ī little later I coughed up $50 for a "name brand" model (which shall remain nameless, though it starts with a K and ends with an S.). It was loud and made chunks the size of gravel. When I finally did get a processor, it was a $30 model because if you just want to make crumbs (and homemade pesto) they should all be able to do that, right? What is the best tool for making bread crumbs? ![]() The answer, obviously, was to get a food processor. I didn't want any of it to be thrown out. The ends of 100% whole wheat sandwich bread, toast no one ate, the last part of a whole wheat roll from days before - even half a sleeve of stale crackers (that I didn't make, but still didn't want to waste). Have you ever tried to coat chicken with bread chunks? Yeah, not quite the same.Īnd so there was a container of store-bought crumbs in my refrigerator.īut of course the more I made things for myself, the more I wanted none of it to go to waste. When I did need some for a recipe, I was reduced to smashing them with a rolling pin in a baggie. In my defense, no one I knew growing up made their own crumbs (that I can remember), plus I didn't have a food processor, and the cheap blender we owned simply whirred the bread pieces around in the container, staying almost the same size (yep, it was really cheap). In fact, I remember when my son was small and my mother-in-law came over and said she was shocked to see the store-bought bread crumbs in the fridge. I am guilty of buying crumbs early in my cooking journey (although I'm freely admitting that's not much of a guilt trip, ha!). Some links in this article are affiliate links and if you click on them and purchase I will receive a small commission at no cost to you. ![]()
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