Equipment Expert Lisa McManus Answers Your Questions About Bread Machines | Gear Heads 

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”.

Ovens are hot. I try to avoid oven baking in the heat of summer. Bread machines are great for not sweating in your kitchen in summer. Come winter, I'm all about oven baking again.

High altitude here. I add a tablespoon or two of water and it comes out great. I haven’t had much luck with gluten free.

Bought the Panasonic while in Japan, best bread machine after I had my daughters translate the instructions.

Can the recipe be adapted using Einkorn all purpose four? I understand the dough has to be wetter, and the gluten structure is weaker than general all purpose.

Thankyou .I always learn and relearn something every time there is one of your Q&A s.

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.

Thanks for adding captions for the Deaf, makes great video better and easier to follow.

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

My only ultimate bread machine is my KitchenAid Pro 600 Stand Mixer!

Hi ATK
Greetings from California 😋

I’ve had my zojirushi for 13 years I love it it was Best Buy thank you so much for testing it

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.