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  1. I’m glad to see you’re using your “loaf” 🍞 buying a bread making machine. I feel like an “outsider” with my antiquated bread machine that’s so old the machine has gone “stale”. I’m hoping to get a new machine soon before I grow “mold” and then ending up “pan bread”. You could possibly start selling your bread. I heard there’s a lot of “dough” in it. I suppose you have to earn a “crust” in these austere dreary times, especially if living on the “breadline”. It could be a good source of income. It would be your “bread and butter”. Sorry for the bad english, intelligence doesn’t run in the family, I must be “in-bread”. I have to say I admire your baking skills. I’m not exactly my “Mother’s Pride” with my bread baking skills. My wife really ”kneads” one of those machines for her sandwich making business. Ironically, her name just happens to be “Marg” would you believe. She likes a good old gossip and “spreads” it about quite a bit. Incidentally, just be careful when adding salt to your bread ingredients. I accidentally “a-salted” myself, ending up in a hospital that wasn’t very hospitable. To put it succinctly, I think bread making machines are the best inventions, yes, you guessed it, since “slice bread”. I think I’ve left my “puns” in the oven for too long, so I’ll say goodbye now, it’s way past my “breadtime”. So sorry for this long comment, I must be on a “roll”. You must think I’m an absolute “doughnut”. You really deserve much “butter”. I hope at “Yeast“ I’m making you smile. 

    Incidentally, sometimes my bread doesn’t rise to the occasion, should I, therefore, replace the yeast with viagra, or will the viagra just make my bread go hard? Please advise. 

    Yours sincerely, the fruit and exceedingly nutty Scottish “Ginger Bread Man”.

  6. I have a bread machine and I only use it for kneading. I tried making bread but it would never rise enough and it always came out so dense. Plus I don't like the hole that the paddle leaves in the bread.

  13. We had several different bread machines over 20 years, and all they served to do was prevent us from realizing that far superior bread could be had using conventional techniques, and now that I have moved to no-knead there’s no possibility of ever looking back. Goodwill was the best place for that bread machine.

  16. What I want to know is why I can follow the same recipe in the same bread machine to the T and sometimes my loaves come out fine and sometimes they collapse. Is it humidity? Is it the temperature? I just don't get it.

  17. Your bread machine best buy should be "used bread machine from literally any goodwill in the United States for $20"

    I don't know how old my williams sonoma branded Breadman machine is, but I bought it for that price off Facebook and I've used it twice a week for the past 9 months without any problems. But if you're an eager consumer who likes to buy brand new, feel free to subsidize my secondhand appliance habit

  20. I employ disenfranchised gremlins to make fresh bread for me every day FROM SCRATCH! I would never dream of giving them a bread machine to use! Those little guys just love getting their tiny fingers into the dough. Why would I deprive them of this daily pleasure??? I mean, once in awhile one of them catches fire from the wood-burning stove I set up for them in the backyard, but ya gotta crack an egg to make a quiche, right?

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  25. Thank you, Lisa. When I made fresh rolls every morning at the restaurant, I had 3 large stand mixers going at once. I found that if I used the paddle while the dough was still sticky the kneading time was much shorter. I added the flour a bit at a time and when the dough pulled away from the sides of the bowl, and onto the paddle, it was time for the hook. I used the hook until the dough was mostly pulled away from the bottom of the bowl.

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