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I think I love my bread machine!

I am so very happy for you JP!!! Oh my goodness if someone told me I could no longer eat bread I would FAINT fast away! I can certainly understand your happiness in owning a bread machine:)
 
IC, I use my bread machine all the time - I haven't bought a loaf since March last year when a friend gave me her old machine.

When I make Challah, bagels or French bread with it, I stick all the ingredients in and use it to do the kneading and first rise for me. I score the French bread before it goes in the oven, but not the Challah (but it's braided - so maybe has enough surface area to vent?)

When I bake (sorry - IT bakes) a loaf of bread from start to finish, it just comes out fine without me scoring it, but does emit a lot of steam when it comes out. Also, if I don't take it out of the machine withing about an hour, it turns soggy and yucky.

So - that's probably your answer.. It vents when it comes out of the machine.
 
Mine has baked a perfect loaf, every time, so far. :D
Apart from being too hot. It comes, ready to eat, immediately. I love the first crust, still warm, spread with honey.
My daughter doesn't have a machine. But still turns out the most amazing loaves, and rolls. All made by hand.
LOL. She keeps sending me pictures, on her cell phone.
 
The only vent in bread machine bread is from the bottom where the paddle blade is. Once removed from the bread pan there is an ugly hole where the blade went. They actually provide a tool to remove the paddle from the bread since it comes off of the shaft and remains in the loaf about half the time. Once sliced the middle 2 or 3 slices have a notch in the bottom from the blade. Really doesn't bother me.
 
My machine has a collapsable paddle. At the end of the kneading process, it reverses, folding the paddle down flat. Thus causing minimal damage to the loaf, when removed.
 
You have a "higher end" machine then mine. Here in our little town our local Walmart (the only store in town that sells bread machines) has the single model of the Oster machine. You have 2 choices, take it or leave it. I quess you could take Mamas machine - Lefty and righty.
 
One good thing about Mama's Machine - it works during electrical storms, can make big batches of dough, can turn it into a pizza and shape the bread any way possible. And still whip up a pot of sauce and make homemade pasta at the same time!
 
My machine originally cost the equivalent of about $275.00. But I got it in a post Christmas sale, for $80.00. It does also have a setting, for mixing the dough. But not baking. So you can bake in a conventional oven, if you wish.
 
The make is Morphy-Richards. Which I very much doubt if you will have heard of. It is a very old established, British electrical gadget manufacturer. But in this instance. I believe that mine is a re-badged beast, from the Far East. Although M/R may have set up their own factory, out there.
 
This is my 'Beastie'. Just incase you spot it, under an alternative moniker. Kind of 'Old fashioned' looking, really. But makes a super 2lb loaf in exactly 3 hours.

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Goldfynche said:
This is my 'Beastie'. Just incase you spot it, under an alternative moniker. Kind of 'Old fashioned' looking, really. But makes a super 2lb loaf in exactly 3 hours.

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Our bread machins manufactured here really do ot look that diffeent from yours Sir. I like the way Jglass uses hers, and wish I had of thought of it! Iwould have kept mine! She sid she simply uses it to mix, then sh bakes hers and shapes her in the traitional method. I liked my bread from the bread machine, but I did not like the hole it left in the bottom of the loaf:( I guess it really mattered not in the taste and texture, but being the perfectionist sort I was bothered by the hole where the mixing paddle would stir it. Never dawned on me I could just do it manually:rolleyes:
 
Cathy my little Oster will let you set it on dough mode so you can take it out for the last rise and shape it as you wish. I think they all will. However mine sure doesn't have the paddle that folds but the hole in the bottom doesn't bother me much.
 
seems to me that most of the bread machines that I've seen are at garage sales. It seems like one of those kitchen appliances that get used a lot in the first six months and then after that...never.
 
abanynini said:
seems to me that most of the bread machines that I've seen are at garage sales. It seems like one of those kitchen appliances that get used a lot in the first six months and then after that...never.
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I'm sure, but in my case when I haven't been able to have bread in 2 1/2 years because of an 800 mg or less low sodium diet it is different. The only bought bread within 100 miles of me that is low sodium enough is Don Ponchos white corn tortillas. If I could have gone to the grocers and got a loaf of normal white bread or French bread I would say; Why bother? Now I can make a 2 Lb loaf of French that only has 24 mg of sodium for the whole loaf. BTW the taste is the same with or without salt, it just won't last more then about 4 days in an airtight bag.
 
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