Whole wheat setting doesn't start - Charlescraft HBC520 Countercraft Breadmaker HBC-520 Instruction Manual Recipes PDF

This is perfectly normal for the whole wheat setting. Because it is a heaver bread the flour has to soften a bit before it starts to kneed. I use this setting a lot with perfect results.

push the stop button until your machine beeps, then unplug it and plug it back in. push select and push it again and again and you will get more confident as you see it go through the choices such as basic, whole wheat, french etc...... you will get more confident about how to choose. Once you feel you have the right program leave it there and then choose things such as the crust color you want and the LOAF SIZE once you feel you have the right settings say....whole wheat, light crust, 1.5 pound loaf.......then....push start and the fun will begin....

Yes, many machines warm up a little when you choose the wheat setting, also if your manual shows the cycle times for the various programs you will probably notice a different Knead time (more) vs. the basic program and that is because whole wheat flour lacks enough gluten to make a nice, large, soft loaf, so to compensate it has a longer knead. Even with that though your whole wheat loaves are probably going to be shorter than a 100 whole wheat loaf.
Many bakers ( me included) add purchased wheat gluten and add that to the flour, (be sure to remove and equal amount of w. wheat flour from the recipe if you do this) to get a softer, higher, better texture loaf.

The whole wheat program goes through a warm-up phase that others do not. When you choose whole wheat and push start it won't start mixing right away like the other programs do.

Use program #1 if you are using a recipe that contains regular bread flour. If using a combination of bread flour and whole wheat flour and whole wheat is 50% or more of the flour mix use the whole wheat program. Your manual will tell you which program # is the whole wheat one.

Be patient most modern machines all preheat on the whole wheat cycle. It will start mixing within 30 minutes.

Are you taking into account the preheating for whole wheat cycle? The machine preheats for 30 minutes before normal cycles start - only on whole wheat setting.

Try using the white setting and it should be OK. Using part white and part wheat also works well, I have found.
orleydog

Hi Mindy.......it takes 30 minutes to PREHEAT this silly machine for wheat bread. I thought I did something wrong, too........I stopped it twice after it preheated for about 15 minutes. I did not want to waste anything so I let it stay in the machine.....I just went to check the machine and it started after 30 minutes of preheating.

I wish they would mention this in the book!!!

Julie from TX