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The Subscription Box: Bespoke Post
The Cost: $45 a month for members, $55 if purchased without a membership.
The Products: Monthly lifestyle items curated around a theme.
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Bespoke Post "Panino" Review
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I have been wanting to learn how to make my own bread, I even started fermenting my own yeast (it didn't quite work out) so when I saw this Bespoke Post box I figured I'd give it a try. This card gives us a recipe with just a few ingredients to make a loaf of no-knead bread.
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Silicone Zone Silicone Bread Baker
This 100% silicone bread baker is dishwasher safe and can withstand oven temperatures up to 500 degrees. The inside is smooth and glossy while the outside has more of a matte texture. The cool thing about this baker is that you can mix everything up inside the bowl and then you fold over the sides and tuck that little tab into the slot on the opposite side to hold it closed forming a cloche that will form your dough into a loaf as it rises. If bread baking isn't your thing, you can also use this as a steamer in the oven by adding some oil and whatever you'd like to cook and placing it in a preheated oven. It looks like this is no longer available, but I found a similar style here.
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Escali Ciro Digital Scale - Retail Value $24.95 (found here for $19.99 - they also have some fun colors for less!)
I actually have a small kitchen scale that I use often, but it is so temperamental and this one works so well! It comes with the battery, so I was able to turn it on and test it out right away. It has an on/off button, but it also has an auto-shutoff feature after five minutes. This can measure both dry and liquid ingredients and it has a nice blue backlight so you can really see the measurements. You can measure in milliliters, ounces, pounds, or grams. The top is nice and smooth with touchscreen buttons so that you can wipe it clean and there are no nooks for anything to get stuck inside of. It's also a nice size at 9 inches by 5.9 inches making it much more useful than my old scale and the slim profile means it will be easy to store as well.
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Old Mountain Cast Iron Garlic Roaster - Retail Value $24.00
This last item is another one that I was super excited about. I love garlic and I could imagine how well some freshly roasted garlic would pair with a nice loaf of bread. This little roaster is heavy and well made and came with some instructions for cleaning and seasoning it, although it does come pre-seasoned. I did roast some garlic for our dinner and I added it to some butter to top steaks with and it was so delicious! I can't wait to make other roasted garlic goodies with it! Now let's see how my bread turned out!
The recipe they provided was very simple and I loved that I could measure out my flour using my scale and just dump it directly into the bread maker! It was just a bit quicker than measuring and leveling it off and it was one less dish I needed to clean.
I mixed up the rest of the ingredients, water, yeast, salt, and a little bit of honey and then I left it to rise for about an hour. It was a little tricky mixing it in the bowl since the sides kept turning in, but I kind of got the hang of it towards the end.
Once my dough had risen I took it out and then just pulled out the sides and folded them into the center a few times to form a ball. Then I added a little flour to it and placed it with the smooth side up inside my bowl and then folded it up and placed it in the oven.
You were supposed to let that bake for 30 minutes so the loaf shape would form and then open it up to let it finish cooking for another 20 minutes or so. I had something else in the oven at the same time and when I peeked in on that, I noticed my bowl had already come open. I tried to get it closed again, but I was having trouble and it was way too hot to keep messing with it so I just left it alone. My husband is the one who grabbed it out of the oven when it was done and when I came back the side was ripped and he told me it was like that when he removed it. I'm not sure how it actually tore, but I'm thinking maybe that was the reason that I couldn't get it closed again when it was in the oven.
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When it was finished, I ended up with more of a bread boule, but it was crusty and delicious! I loved how easy it was to make and I can see adding some herbs and spices to the recipe (garlic and rosemary, anyone?) to really amp up the flavor next time. I did reach out to customer service because I don't think that there was anything I did to tear the bowl; the oven was at the correct temperature and I was careful when mixing and placing it in the oven. I'm hopeful they will replace it because I'd really love to try it as a steamer for other recipes, but without being able to get it closed, I'm not sure how it will turn out.
Verdict: I really loved everything in this month's Bespoke Post box. There are some really useful kitchen gadgets and while I don't have a price for the bread maker, the garlic roaster and scale have a total retail value of $48.95 which is equal to the cost of the box ($45 + $3.95 shipping). I am hopeful that they will replace the bread maker because it was such an easy way to make delicious bread and I'm sure that there are so many other things I can try in the oven, too. If not, at least I know I can make a delicious boule anytime I want!
To Wrap Up:
Can you still get this box if you sign up today? Yes! This box is still in stock.
Value Breakdown: This box costs $45 + $3.95 shipping, which means that each of the 3 items costs approximately $16.32.
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