Why is banana bread so good? How can other breads even compete? I just want to talk about banana bread.
can anyone also post the best recipe ever?
i have tried about 4 different ones and they never turn out as moist as i like them to be... (i especially searched for MOIST bananabread recipes)
i have 5 very ripe bananas here and desperately want to make a bread out of them.
>>7647508
I want to stick my dick in that bread.
I love banana bread, but it's really just cake, which is why you like it better than other breads.
>>7647508
Sounds like you're overbaking the recipes you've tried. Your oven may be running a bit hot.
>>7647515
so, you think i just dried it out too much? i followed the baking instructinos to a t. but maybe i just need to go with my guts a bit more.
http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2005/11/persimmon-bread/
Out of season now, but James Beard's persimmon bread blows every banana bread recipe out of the water.
Are my bananas ripe enough? Shit feels like it takes forever.
>>7647533
might work
>>7647503
well your thread makes me want to try making banana bread. any tips for a first time? i can bake regular bread just fine
>>7647535
I've heard popping them in the over for a few minutes basically achieves the same thing as ripening. Anyone have experience with this and know if it comes out different?
>>7647533
No, not even nearly there yet.
>>7647540
it's just a cake. it's not a bread. i don't know who came up with the idea to name it "bread".
basically, you need very ripe bananas. the riper the better. then you need flour, butter, brown sugar, baking powder and salt.
>>7647522
Toothpick test, mah nigga. If the outside looks to be cooking too quickly, aluminum foil. Never trust a recipe's cook times to the minute, you know your oven or cookware better than any reciepe does.
>>7647533
I've give them another day. Stick them in a paper back or something enclosed and wait one more
>>7647545
not really. i tried that. it turns them soft and also dehydrates them a bit. but letting them ripe is better. i tried both methods
>>7647548
I've always added some vanilla extract to mine but that might be just a personal preference.
>>7647545
It works better than unripe, but only to take off the "raw" edge of green bananas. It doesn't do quite the same thing. Riper bananas that have started to break down and head towards fermentation carry themselves much better in baking recipes.
>>7647553
well, that's just the basic dough. i add roasted pecans or walnuts too. sometimes a bit of cinnamon or chocolat chips
Bacon, sunny side up eggs, a piece of sourdough and tea
>actually worrying about your bananas not being ripe enough to make bread
The whole point of banana bread is to make it when your bananas are too ripe so they don't go to waste. If your bananas aren't ripe enough yet, just eat bananas.
>>7647558
I have bananas I'm eating, but I also bought thus bunch just for bread.
Try this Seattle Banana Cake
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/7306/surprise-banana-cake/
I swapped out some of the All purpose Flour for some whole wheat and add some dried cranberries. And even though it says 4 bananas, I'd used five and just added a little extra whole wheat flower.
Gives it a more earthy taste.
>>7647559
Then why didn't you buy ripe bananas
>>7647563
The store didn't have any over-ripe bananas.
>>7647533
>not throwing your bananas in the freezer to make this irrelevant
>>7647566
Maybe next time.
>>7647564
You should buy your veggies at open markets brah, you can get oven-ripe fruit for a fraction of the usual price
>>7647585
Probably, it's not like bananas are expensive anywhere.
>>7647585
>oven-ripe fruit
>>7647508
>can anyone also post the best recipe ever?
Here you go. The glaze is optional; either way it is fantastic.
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/coconut-banana-bread-with-lime-glaze-0
>>7647636
>lime glaze
I don't know about this...
Lightly microwaved banana bread with a small pat of butter on top. Plus good cup of coffee.
>>7647503
its one of the few things i can buy cheaper than it costs to coock it
>>7647684
I find that hard to believe since all of the ingredients are cheap as fuck.
>>7647685
they are and i still can buy it chaeper than it costs to make it.
Since every ingridient it has you can buy on bulk the only way to make it as cheap as they do is to drive to the gigant market outside the city with a van and buy ingridients to make enough banana bread to feed a family of five for two years
>>7647710
But they won't be as good. And cooking is fun.
>>7647508
You want moist? Cream cheese banana bread.
1 egg
1/2cup brown sugar
1/4cup gran. sugar
1/4cup greek yogurt
1/2cup butter
2tsp vanilla
2 bananas
1cup AP flour
1/2tsp baking powder
1/2tsp baking soda
salt
Mix egg, sugar, yogurt, butter and vanilla.
Mash bananas into mixture
Mix in flour, powder, soda, salt
Set aside
1egg
1/4cup gran. sugar
4oz cream cheese
3tbsp AP flour
Mix it up
Pour half bread batter in a 9x5, pour cream cheese, pour rest of batter
Bake 350 for 50mins or so
>>7647743
Sounds rich. Might give it a try.
>>7647734
actually they are way better than any banana bread i was ever able to make, they are really moist and weight way more than it looks like it weights so its more chewey and dense.
Its really good banana bread.
If i want to go through the trouble of actually coocking i would make something better
>>7647764
>better than any banana bread i was ever able to make
I'm sorry you can't bake well.
>>7647774
You are a little cunt aren't you? I was able to bake banana bread right in my first time, I also made both cookies and brownies from scratch
You don't want to admit that a person who's only job is to make banana bread all day can actually make it better than you and sell it for a little over half the cost of the I gridients can you?
>>7647743
What no walnuts?
>>7647906
I can take or leave walnuts in banana bread.
>>7647503
Banana bread is the shit
Just popped a batch in the over. We'll see how it goes.
Zuchini bread can top banana bread easily
Well it's a loaf. Outside a little firmer than I like but plenty moist inside. Not bad for a first time.
>>7648341
The recipe for this is pretty much the same but with grated zucchini instead of banana, right?
Sounds interesting.
I once decided to make a bloody mary but I didn't have tomato juice or vodka so I mixed up some gin and marinara sauce.
>>7648519
That's neat. Not sure what it has to do with this thread.
>>7648522
that post was the result of a series of mistakes which honestly began years ago
>>7648519
Once I made toast and then I realized I didn't have any butter, so I used Butter-Pecan ice cream
>>7648534
That makes sense.
I'm making my second banana bread in 5 days. Banana bread is my favorite baked good, it is so addicting. I've been eating pretty much 600-1000 of my daily calorie allowance on banana bread for days.
Send help
>>7648706
Well there are worse things you could be eating. Enjoy the potassium.
>hate bananas
>despised everything about them from since I was about 3
>taste, texture, appearance, everything about them is abhorrent to me
>mother made the best banana bread in existence
>despite my hatred for bananas I loved it
>she would slice it warm when it just out of the oven
>it had a perfectly crisp surface
>yet also a perfect interior, warm and moist and perfect
>mother died last year
>never got the recipe from her
fugg
>>7649082
Banana bread is one of the easiest quick breads to make. Just look up a recipe and make it yourself.
>>7649082
you made me sad man
>>7649121
>give bread to homeless man
>wtf is this shit i can't buy booze with bread
>>7649121
Bad idea. Feeding them for free just encourages them to continue being homeless.
>>7649082
I'm sorry.
>>7647846
Why would they sell it for half the cost of the ingredients especially if it is so good, it just doesn't add up.
>>7649121
In some areas that's illegal, presumably because you're not held to any standards of food safety. Make sure you know the local law before you give out food.
>>7649270
Only in shitholes like America is that illegal.
>>7649251
Half of what the ingredients would cost a household. They buy the ingredients in bulk and get them cheaper.
>>7649291
yeah in civilized europe we just put the homeless on a train and burn them in an oven in poland
>>7649301
We're already dealing in cheap ingredients. I would wager it comes out to close to the same since the mark up is lower and the quality would still be higher.
>>7649291
Maybe, but there's nothing wrong with giving it to a food bank or a shelter,
Anyone who complains "but lawsuits!!" is just fucking lazy. Clinton passed Good Samaritan laws that protect anybody who donates food in good faith.
>>7649311
And worst case you go to court over it and a judge or jury says "I'm not fining someone for doing good, dismissed."
>>7649340
Your judges just decide to not uphold certain laws if they don't like them?
>>7649355
Jury of your peers.
it's dying
>>7648341
CAME HERE TO SAY THIS
FURIOUS AT HOW LITTLE MENTION OF ZUCCHINI BREAD IS IN THIS THREAD
>>7651701
Because zucchini is shit.
