Small Batch Bread in the Air Fryer 

I was a baker. I was taught by a bread baker. He showed me how to tell when you have perfect dough. Take a piece of dough between your fingers and spread it thin so you can see threw it. If it breaks apart it is not ready. It should stretch easy. Also to tell if your bread is done, tap it. It should sound hollow. If you brush your baked loaf right from the oven/airfryer, with olive oil, it will stay fresh longer.

You are like the Ever Ready Bunny, you don't slow down. You come up with so many recipes, ways to be more efficient and reveal things that not all of us might have realized. Thank you Pam and Jim for sharing so much with us.

Okay. First time viewer, and I NEVER considered making bread because it's just me. But, she inspired me, so here I go❣️

PAM- One thing I do when baking brownies/cake- things that rise… I Take Out the crisper insert.. it isn’t needed and gives more rise room 😉

Mind blown! I love the small batch since it’s just the two of us and I must limit my carb intake, so less temptation. 😊 It will also much more energy efficient and keep my kitchen cooler during the hot, humid days of summer. Thank you so much, Pam and Jim!!

Air fryers are awesome... PAM I HOPE YOU'LL DO A BUNCH OF NEW VIDS USING AIR FRYER! These gadgets are so practicle and fun to use. I use it make alot of my KETO friendly foods. I dont do breads of course because they are loaded with carbs, but wow.. the meats, fish and veggies.. super fast, and clean up is a breeze.

I pinch out a loaf quite often in fact watching this has inspired me to lay another loaf this morning.

Hey yeah! I did bake bread loaves in the round in a toaster oven. Just put them one at a time on the baking sheet ( oiled lightly of course) that's made for toaster ovens and away it goes! With some adjustments for the baking time. But hey, whether crockpot, toaster oven, or Air fryer, they're good for hot weather bread baking!

I never thought about bread in the air fryer!

I love this idea! I think I’ll make the dough in my bread machine and then bake it in the air fryer. Thanks so much for sharing this.

All the bread’s turned out beautifully! I don’t have a big air fryer. Mine is pretty small but I love making bread but haven’t in years. When I was young my little grandma taught me to make bread & I would enter it in our county fair & I took blue ribbons. I was so proud! Today I’m a diabetic & can’t eat white bread & can eat a little wheat bread. I’m loving your video 💜

This is marvelous! I will look at air fryers for sure. Keeping our homes cooler by not using our kitchen ovens is perfect! Baking with the Fat Daddio and Granitestone bakeware is delightful. I will have to look through your videos to see your opinion regarding how often an air fryer is actually used to make it worth my cost, but I believe it will be worth it to keep the heat out of the kitchen. I Thank you both so very much for this video, as I always enjoy your helpful videos! God bless 🙏❤️

Good on you for showing the loaf that was slightly burnt by the element. I love that you explained why the bread might rise more than expected and what to do to change it.

Wowzers! The cinnamon and raisin loaf looks scrumptious. Thank for another great video, I have learned so mutch from you. It revolutionized my bread baking and got me started in canning. I have done waterbath canning for a while, and just last month finnaly got a pressure canner.

I have learned so much watching your videos! You are such a fabulous teacher!

Just got an air fryer and can’t wait to make this bread! Thank you!

Hi glad I saw this. I was wanting to learn all about bread. Taking one recipe at a time that I could bake multiple ways including outdoors

I made your recipe today. Thank you so much. The recipe worked well for me. I baked it in my Power-Air-Fryer Oven. Due to the pans I had available , I had to make a smaller loaf and an even smaller loaf of cinnamon bread. Yum!!

A little tip I've seen but not actually used - pull a bit of dough from the loaf before the rise, put that small bit in a small glass (see-through) container. When the small bit has doubled, so has your loaf. Then it doesn't matter what shape the loaf is in your Cambro or whatever. I keep forgetting to try that. But I'm thinking that bit would also be perfect for then putting in the fridge for anyone who uses the "old dough" method of breadmaking. (Or just put it back in your main dough.)

Maybe someone has already mentioned this but a lot of air fryers have round drawers so thank you for suggesting the round cake pan!

I just love watching your videos. You and your hubby are so wonderful together. I will be trying this for sure

This is FABULOUS!! We live in FL and I don’t like turning the big oven on in the heat of summer. I’ve been wondering if this would work, and now, Dear Lady, you and Jim have answered that question❤. I just ordered the Fat Daddy pan and will be trying it soon.

What a great idea! My daughter is going to love this. She really enjoys cooking but sometimes the oven scares her so she uses the air fryer a lot of the time. She also could survive on bread alone I think. So this is perfect for her.

My large oven is out of commission right now due to a gas leak, so your small loaf recipe comes at an apt time for me. My bread will bake in the toaster oven today with the rack flipped to lowest position. Fortunately, I have a small loaf pan just like yours. Thank you for your wonderful videos. They are always helpful and interesting.

Great timing for me! Gave in and bought an airfrier today, started z new batch of sourdough last week!! Ideal! Thank you!

Also great for RVers. I hate trying to store extra bread when traveling. This is a great idea, thank you so much. 😊🎉

Bake 1 or 2 regular loaves, cool completely, slice, then freeze in zip-locks. I do all my bread products this way, homemade or store bought. Freezing keeps it fresh. I toast it frozen. It thaws at room temp or in the microwave for a few seconds. Small loaves are just fun, but I don’t worry about quantity for a single person. If I’m going to the trouble of baking bread, I want a bigger yield for my time and effort. Bread freezes well for about 2-3 months.

Hi to both of you, thank you so much for these small loaf recipes! As with Jim and you, there is just the two of us. Please do more small batch baking. Thank you again, suzie

Made a loaf of white bread in the air fryer and followed your directions to the tee! Best bread ever. On to 1/2 wheat 1/2 white and cinnamon raisin. I've tried to make bread for over 30 years - finally success!

Such gorgeous bread!! Thank you for sharing. I made a loaf this morning in a 9” springform pan and it worked perfectly! It’s also almost gone because the recipe is so good😊

We have a toaster oven style air frier which we often bake bread in. In the fridge i keep a container of dough. (I make it about once a week or so) So yummy to have bread/rolls in 30 minutes!!!

Thank you for the mini loaf recipe. I live alone and a full loaf is difficult for me to use before it goes bad. I love your videos and have learned so much from you. Thank you for all that you do and share!❤

Love your ideas for cooking for 2. What great idea using air fryer. Thanks again Pam!

I made several loafs with no bread pan. The loafs turned out great!! I put the dough on parchment paper and baked as directed.

I've never done bread in the air fryer, but I've done biscuits, and I started tenting them with aluminum foil for the first half, then uncovering them for the last half, and brushing them with butter or olive oil when they first come out. It really helps to avoid that overly browned top. I bake a LOT of things in my air fryer: pizza, brownies, cookies, biscuits, mac and cheese... just have to lower the temp and tent things. My next challenge is a cheese cake in the air fryer using ramekins of water and tenting with foil to prevent cracking. Fingers crossed!

Beautiful! I recently found your channel. I’ve been learning new things from every video I’ve watched, which I just love doing. Many thanks to you and your husband for putting in all the work to create these wonderful videos and your helpful web site!

I really enjoyed watching this tutorial and very much love your personality and clear instructions. I felt like I was right there in the kitchen with you two! I'm glad that RU-vid recommended this video. I just subscribed. Hugs from smoky Ontario, Canada 🙂

Very impressive results! I have baked bread from a packet of bread mix, but it was a lot of work kneading, proving and allowing to rise. And then heating up my main oven and so on. I have had a Ninja round Foodi air fryer for nearly two years and use it all the time now, sometimes twice a day. My main oven is practically redundant, as I'm only cooking for one anyway. But I will also need to buy a slightly smaller loaf tin as the one I used before in the main oven is just too long to fit inside the Ninja pot. You explained all the steps carefully and slowly and I'll be checking out your other videos soon. I'm in the UK, by the way.

Hi I am. I love the information you so graciously share. You mentioned aluminum baking pans discolor in dishwasher. I found this true and then discovered it was the cascade platinum I was using that discolored mine. I switched to cascade liquid and no more discolored new aluminum pans.

Awesome cooking ability and teaching indeed you French madam❤❤

All of them look fantastic & delicious. I have baked bread for years and can't wait to try this in my air fryer!

To avoid the burned top perhaps you can try folding a square of aluminum foil to the size of the loaf and setting it on top when it reaches the colour you like. Sort of like the pie rings we use. Love the idea and will definitely give it a go in my air fryer. Thanks for the content.

Looks good and easy. Thanks for leaving the burnt loaf in the video. Things happen and we should be prepared for that! !! !!!

They all look beautiful 😍 If you try cooking it for 14-15 minutes then quickly flip it out of the tin and put it back in on it's back or side for the last 5 minutes or so it won't burn.

Lately, have been thinking about experimenting with single serving homemade bread when I go to dog shows in my air fryer. I have a tiny air fryer that I keep in my little camper since I don’t have an oven. I’m glad you posted this. Thanks!

This is seriously brilliant!! I’m definitely going to try it. I might make a regular batch and then freeze what I don’t use for later. Thanks so much for sharing this video!!

I'm so glad you keep in the little oopsies and just correct them in text. It makes the whole thing seem much more genuine, if that makes sense!

I gave it a shot yesterday. I must have the world's smallest air fryer, because I had to break the dough in 2 (half is in fridge now); another commenter mentioned using a Pullman covered pan, but even my mini Pullman cube is too tall. I did add tangzhong, but that just enhanced it & didn't cause problems that I can tell. The one problem - I covered the top with parchment, and it still started browning on top too fast. So I switched to foil, and I think that kept it safe. The bottom remained really pale, but a thermometer showed it as done, & it's a yummy small loaf of bread regardless. I baked in a 6" round cake pan. I have a countertop convection oven, so I'm thinking I'll use that from now on. My small air fryer is too limiting. It's still a great method all things considered.

Love this, great information and good details. I don't mind the brown top. Thank you for giving us so many ideas and options for bread baking in the air fryer. I'm like many others, using small appliances in the hot weather.

I love heavily browned crust!😍I still use my bread maker. Genius to use air fryer tho! Thx!

I have already baked 2 medium loaves of bread in my Air-Fryer oven on the bake setting.....came out perfect.

I am really excited to try these recipes in my convection toaster oven. Thank you for the wonderful video🌺💮🌺Happy first day of summer.

I directed a friend that was new to freeze drying to you and your videos. She loves watching you now. Have a blsssed day ❤❤

I really want to thank you for passing on such important and helpful information! So many people didn't have anyone to teach these important life skills.

Thank you! This will be perfect for my house of 2. Thank you for including a freshly milled grson recipe I'm new to whole grains and do not know how to convert recipes yet.

Thank you sooooo much! You have so much knowledge. I know this that’s so much work for you and Jim and I really appreciate you do8ng the viedo. God Bless

What a great idea, thank you for showing us how to do this and your loaves look fantastic

I’m happy to see what happens in real life so we can learn 😊 thank you for sharing this video with us ❤️

Great idea. I have that exact air fryer and its just the two us also. Recently, I baked 3 loaves and froze 2 but this would be an awesome alternative to bake just what we needed for the week.

I have made banana bread in my fryer as well. Yummy

Beautiful crumb on the bread! Thank you for the tutorial.

Pam: You may want to do a video on Bao Buns. They might also be a good choice for off-grid cooking. They are a type of steamed bread buns that are cooked on top of the stove in a steamer basket and do not require an oven.

I love this idea, im a widow and live by myself. And I love homemade bread. ❤watching you from Kentucky ❤

How fun!!! I’m doing this in my air fryer.

Love that you show us that you have the same kinds of problems we mere mortals have.

Thank you for all you do. I cannot tell you how much I enjoy your videos. You are so easy to listen to. Love your demonstrations. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Thank you for discussing how to prevent the top from over browning. Nice crumb on all three.

Pam, I always use my bread machine to make the dough for my oven baked breads (Fibromyalgia makes it hard to knead for me) so I tried this recipe that way. I used the dough cycle which is 1:50 minutes. I only had to add a couple pinches of flour while in the kneading cycle and the dough turned out beautiful. I degassed and rolled it as usual (just like you do!) and got it in the little Fat Dadio pan that I bought to make this bread and allowed it to rise until double, about 30 to 35 minutes. I baked it in my regular oven at 350 and it took about 28 minutes to reach 200 degrees. BUT….this thing rose so high in the oven that it looks like one loaf on top of another and started lilting to the side! LOL! It is cooling now so I have not tried it yet but I have to say that I could have easily used my favorite pan, the Wilton non-stick 9X5. If I like this bread I will use the 9X5 next time. I think maybe the DOUGH cycle on my Zojirushi really gave it a work out developing those gluten strands even more so than the mixer would have. Perhaps that is why it rose so high? I wish we could ad pictures here, but trust me, you would laugh! 😉

THANK YOU SO MUCH. THIS MIGHT BE MY FIRST AIR FRYER RECIPE EVER...IT'S NEW AND I HAVEN'T USED IT YET.

I was just wondering about this and there you are with exactly what I needed to know. Thank you so much!

Oh my goss. I had no idea you could bske bread in the air fryer. Just love eatching this vedio. Many thanks for a new trick. 😊

They all look great!

You are an excellent teacher! Thank you

Thank you for the recipes ♥️♥️♥️♥️

Hi from Southern California. I've never used my Ninja for baking but might give it a try. If the dough seems too soft you can just take enough off before making the loaf and used that extra dough for one or two dinner rolls or even cinnamon swirl rolls. Yum.

Great experiment!

Are you kidding me. I’ve had my air fryer for 2 years and never noticed the “bake” element. Cinnamon raisin bread is going to be on todays menu. As always, thank you for all of the testing you do, just to educate us, your viewers!

Thank you Pam for lovely recipe❤️ Creetings from Finland!

Anne Kennedy Christchurch, New Zealand. Hi I'm a very keen bread maker and thrilled to find your website. What a great idea to bake bread in your air fryer. Since marrying my New Zealand husband and emigrating from London, England to New Zealand 50 years ago I've preserved thousands of jars of fruit, chutney, jam and even a blackcurrant liqueur (that we give as Christmas gufts). I'll be exploring your website for more ideas. Kia ora - Anne Kennedy

Thank you! There is my husband and myself. He likes bread a lot, I like it only sometimes so I hardly eat it. We need just this size.

Thanks so much for this recipe! It's just my husband and myself now, so it's perfect!

Aside from hitting the element, it is such a beautiful loaf.

Great info! Thanks!

Perfect, in my view. Beautiful loaf of bread. Thanks for tips. 🍃🍂🌈

💖🙏💖 Just 1/2 your dough into 2 smaller pans, it looks great. My air fryer is the glass door one so I will be trying this one in mine. Enjoy that hot bread with butter.

Love your shirt! Especially the buttons! 😊

Hi, Pam and Jim. Could you please at some point do a video on pressure-cooking recipes in a pressure canner? I have a presto 16qt pressure canner and would love some recipe ideas. It works great for big batches of soup, and I did a mean pot-roast. More ideas for fast pressure cooked meals would be awsome.

What a cool idea! My air fryer is little. I’ll be trying these in mini pans! Makes me miss my mom’s bread a lot!

Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this recipe! for FREE! Y'all are so generous and wonderful and I'm totally blessed to have found you

thank you

I only have a masters degree and have only worked with computers and programming in 45 years. I got confused by your explanation of you recipes and your web pages. I didn't get it. I don't thing your drawers are similar to mine. I learned a lot from your baking demonstration. That was great. Thank you!

Awesome. I will definitely try it out

How FUN!! There are just the two of us now too and I do a small batch but never tried the air fryer! Tomorrow!

Thank you. Your explanations are quite complete

Thank you for sharing your expertise!! I appreciate you both so very much. 🥰

Loved your video, thank you for sharing your wisdom.

I tried your recipe today and I made 2 mini loaves in my Ninja Foodi smart grill, which is an air fryer. They are beautiful and delicious! Thank you so much! I would add a photo but I don’t know how 😊

👍 idea! Will try, definitely 😎

I was attracted to your video because I do cook for just two people and my air fryer basket looks exactly like yours. But I don't have a scale in my kitchen and my stand mixer doesn't look a bit like yours, and when you got to the ghee I knew your recipes are too high class for me.

Can't wait to try this. Thanks.