Random question.

[rivka]

Do you have a bread machine? If so, what do you think of it?

It's that time of year again: my parents want to know what we would like for Christmas. I was thinking that a bread machine might be a good thing to have. We frequently buy artisanal-type bread from the grocery store, but (a) it's expensive, and (b) it goes stale so quickly. bosssio brought us a loaf of homemade bread after Colin was born, I think made in a bread machine, and it was delicious and stayed fresh for several days.

So is good bread-machine bread easy to make? Are there lots of different kinds? I've seen bread-machine mixes, but presumably you can also make bread in a machine from scratch, right? Any brand recommendations?

Comments

[namedphoenix.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's basically how I deal with it. I've never seen "modern" breadmakers with machine washable parts, and stuff. Only when the pumpkin bread exploded in it's goopiness (I should have listened to myself) have I ever had problems with it.

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Now I'm becoming nervous about having to replace mine if it ever breaks. Paddles getting stuck in the bread? Trouble cleaning it? No crust? Mine makes delicious brown crust, apparently I have some miracle of Welbilt-ness or something...