I had one about five years ago or so and the one thing I like about it was the smell of the bread while it baked. And I liked to watch the machine do it's job every time I'd walk into the kitchen. Most men are not into cooking and this kind of stuff but I love to eat. But that's me. I know these machines don't always work that well but it is a challenge to get all of the ingredients just right so the bread will come out right. I've had a lot of trial and errors with the bread dough.
Some times after I put all of the ingredients into the machine I would move it to my office and bake it there just so I could smell it cooking. Who doesn't love the smell of bread cooking? Yeah, surf the net and smell the bread...
I see you're catching a bit of static from people who denigrate bread machines.
If you like fresh bread and the machine is what you choose to use, more power to you. Maybe down the road you'll make bread from scratch, without the machine. Either way, you'll get bread that's far superior to store-bought bread.
From what I read on alt.bread.recipes, there are a lot of people who don't like their KA mixer. What don't you like about yours? I have a list of things I'd change if I could (and I have changed some of them).
For cakes I much prefer almost any old mixmaster, whatever, where the bowl turned and the beaters merely rotated in place. It was so much easier adding flour and liquids, and I could get a spatula safely into the bowl if I needed one.
Now people are making wax paper chutrs for the flour, or buying the newer model with the chutes on the side - I don't understand why going through MORE trouble is an improvement.
You're probably right. It's too much work to for me to find the start of the thread! This is a good example of why it is important to quote at least some of the message when you respond. All I could see was a subject line that referred to a bread machine and a post that said the poster had one made in 1952.
The quoting here is already an abomination, without TOFU and full quote.
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Now Barry, I was not denigrating bread machines.
I am, however, probably the only person living who doesn't like his=20 Kitchen Aid mixer
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From what I read on alt.bread.recipes, there are a lot of people who don= 't like their KA mixer. What don't you like about yours? I have a list of things I'd change if I could (and I have changed some of them).
Barry
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Kitchen Aid > > mixer > >
And even more people love them until the day they suddenly stop working in mid-stir and never so much as hum again.
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I have one made in 1952 and still going strong.=20
Dale
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I don't recall seeing automatic bread machines until the late 1980's.
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