Kitchen

[cristy7]

Only get a bread machine if you enjoy making your own.  I used mine all the time until they stopped selling the boxed bread mixes.  I no longer use my machine, because it too time consuming when usng a recipe.  QVC needs to sell the boxed mixes.

[ScarletDove]

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@cristy7 wrote:

Only get a bread machine if you enjoy making your own.  I used mine all the time until they stopped selling the boxed bread mixes.  I no longer use my machine, because it too time consuming when usng a recipe.  QVC needs to sell the boxed mixes.

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@cristy7  If you are looking for boxed "to make " breads, go to KingArthurFlour.com and HodgsonMill.com.  You can also find the Hodgson Mills breads for purchase in volume on Amazon....

[Tigriss]

West Bend 2.5-lb Loaf Capacity Hi-Rise Breadmaker for $82.31 at WalMart.  I bought that for myself the Christmas of 2015.  It is fantastic.  My sister also uses it to make G-Free bread for my nephew due to his wheat allergy.  It mixes really well with the two paddles, nothing get missed.  It is also inexpensive and so many features.  I can't find the bread mixes for bread machines at the grocery store anymore, so I do it from scratch with the various ingredients.  I make bread several times a month.  It doesn't keep as long as store-bought bread do since it doesn't have all those chemicals in it.  I split a loaf in half, and freeze the other have for when I run out of the half I'm using.  It stores great.  I wrap it in plastic wrap followed by tin foil, followed by a zip bag that I use a straw to suck the air out of.  Probably overkill, but it does keep very well.

[Tigriss]

I will also add the loaf that it makes is a standard size horizontal loaf and not the more vertical loaf that my other bread machine makes that I've had since the mid 90s that my grandmother gave me. I still use it when I do bread for family gatherings. We have 20+ people usually so fresh bread gets gobbled down. It is so easy to bring to those functions with some real butter! I make them in the morning, side by side, and four loaves are ready by dinner time! Serve with Kerry Gold butter or some equal quality butter! Now that is eating. I do slice it for them, since some people can't cut a straight line! I also do sweet breads for Christmas and Thanksgiving. I do cinnamon raisin or apple. You can then make French toast out of it the next day! YUM!

[Daysdee]

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@cristy7 wrote:

Only get a bread machine if you enjoy making your own.  I used mine all the time until they stopped selling the boxed bread mixes.  I no longer use my machine, because it too time consuming when usng a recipe.  QVC needs to sell the boxed mixes.

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I love my Mini Zo. too.  I don't buy the bread mixes.  I have "The Bread Machine Cookbook--Revised Edition" by Donna Rathmell German.  I have a couple of the recipes memorized--only 5 ingredients.  Takes me less than 5 minutes to get it together and press "start."   Sometmes I put the dry ingredients in a L n L and then just put the water in and add the yeast on top and that is even faster.

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[Mucktao]

I've got the Sorjushi (sp). Used it for years.

[DottieBlue]

THANK YOU so very much for all of your helpful replies.  I really appreciate it.

So many, many nice posters here!

[cristy7]

Thank you so much for the information.  Greatly appreciated.  I always enjoyed my bread machine when all I had to do was put in some water and open a yeat packet.  I will go to the sites you recommended, now!  Thanks again.