Bread Machines

[Nuzzolese]

I'm thinking about buying a bread machine. It sounds fun, healthy, exciting! Fresh bread without any hardwork! I could make all my favorite kinds. I was looking on ebay for some bread machines. Really nice ones average about 50-60 dollars if you include shipping rates.

I question whether or not it would really be worth it. Does the bread made by machine really taste as good as the bread from a bakery? If it did, wouln't bakeries use them?

Does anyone have one? Do you really find that you use it often?

[Drederick Tatum]

they make the house smell good. but they're alot like blenders, you use them alot for about a month then it kind of tapers off.

[ericlee]

I think some factors should come to mind on the question of whether it would taste as good as from a bakery.

For one thing, usually at the bakery, the whole crew has chosen bread making to be thier profession and their equipment is professional as well.

I look at it in the same aspect as in buying home brewing kits as well.

It would be like buying one of those easy bake ovens but upgraded slightly.

[enree erzweglle]

Someone gave me one several years ago and I gave it to my brother. I'm not big into breads and the thoughts of cleaning a bread machine of gummy yeast was too much to bear. The last I heard, my brother hadn't taken the bread machine out of the box. In the 80s, someone gave me a pasta-maker, which I also gave to my brother, who has never used it.

In my neighborhood, there's a locally owned bagel/bread store and I like to shop there when I need bready things. Plus in the spirit of employers treating their employees/the community well, they have worker training programs and that's cool.

[monkey]

my daddy likes to make bread sometimes. we call him the bread machine. obviously we have a cultural difference here.

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i would looove to have a bread machine though. like a rice cooker, it makes delicious things even better.

[Nuzzolese]

That's kind of what I figured. I should just patronize the local bakery. I think I'd get tired of the smell and all the stale bread I'd have to throw away.


But then I think of all the fun bready things I could try, coffee bread and jellybean bread, and the possibilities are endless.

[Drederick Tatum]

uncooked rice is pretty gross.

[Nuzzolese]

I used to be a baker, and the bread compared was pretty good from the machine, but they you won't use it after a month. I don't think the one back at home has been used for a year or so.

Do you want me to take it off your hands?

[ericlee]

mmmm, jalapeno bread. Parmasean bread, oregano bread, hemp bread.

I think this is a keeper.

[enree erzweglle]

My dad is close to 80 and a couple of months ago, he told me that he can't keep bread and peanut butter in his house because he won't stop at one when it comes to PB sandwiches.

Which I thought was heartwarming in an old-man sweet & funny sort of way. That at his age, he fights a thing like that. Plus, usually, you associate PB sandwiches with kids who play little league.

He would not survive having anything at his disposal if it eased the acquiring of freshly made bread. :)

[cosmo105]

when my dad was around, he'd use it all the damn time. now i'm begging my mom to let me take it. i don't think she uses it at all. the only thing is, i already have about eight cupboards stuffed with appliances in my kitchen, and it takes up way more room than anything else i have. so the size is an issue. i know i'd use it all the time. my grandparents have one they've used for years, and they probably use it about once a week or so. i think both my mom's and my grandparents' are Oster models.

[Tzar]

bread machines remind me of Old School.

[GetYourWarOn]

too many carbs.

[vickista]

I'm thinking about buying a bread machine. It sounds fun, healthy, exciting! Fresh bread without any hardwork! I could make all my favorite kinds. I was looking on ebay for some bread machines. Really nice ones average about 50-60 dollars if you include shipping rates.

I question whether or not it would really be worth it. Does the bread made by machine really taste as good as the bread from a bakery? If it did, wouln't bakeries use them?

Does anyone have one? Do you really find that you use it often?

y not just buy a bread slicer, then u can buy the bread from the bakery (unsliced) get home slice it and pretend u made it.