I have an Oster and it serves us well...In fact, I just made up a batch of cinnamon rolls, yummy.....

Another Oster user here. My first one lasted 8 yrs of heavy use and I just got another Oster.

Mine is pretty old, too, but I only let it mix and rise in it, as I love using the regular oven for the baking part. It is so quick to make and it starts rising quickly in the loaf pan.

I didn't know bread machines could make cinnamon rolls (which I love). Obviously I've not paid much attention.
How do you do that? What do they look like when they are done?

It's time to google this one.

I also make cinnamon rolls....you use the breadmaker to mix, knead and for the first rise.....then you roll the dough out in a rectangle, spread with a butter/cinnamon/raisin mix. Roll up like a jelly roll and slice into buns. Put into pan, cover and let rise a 2nd time.
Bake.
I have a Welbuilt bread maker that is at least 10 years old, and I still use it.

welllll, I guess I shouldn't assume things. Like a bread machine that makes rolls from beginning to the end. That idea really got me excited. IF such a thing does exist, let me know!
I found a bunch of recipes that look great, still require a bit of handy work. I've made quite a bit of bread with my kids and at school for 4-h projects. The mixing part was fairly easy. What do people like about bread machines? Maybe, less mess or not having to turn the oven on, or something else?

I don't have one but I have a stand mixer that does the kneading. I love kitchen gadgets and had debated whether I need a bread machine or not. So, here's my question.

Besides baking, what can a bread machine do differently than the stand mixer?

Natalie

I like my bread machine (even thought its a small one), because all you have to do is put in the ingredients, turn it on, and bread is done when it beeps. It also tastes great if you find a good recipe that works for you. I like the cinnamon raisin bread much better then store bought.

So, what does it do different then a mixer? .... its just 1 pan to clean, no mixing no kneading. That's about it for me, plus if you have a timer you can put everthing in the machine at night set it like a coffee maker and have bread when you wake up.

Walmart has a sunbeam 2 Lb breadmaker for less then $45. I was thinking of getting it, any reviews on it from anyone here?

We have a Breadman Ultimate. It makes 1, 1 1/2 and 2 lb loaves. It is very versatile and user friendly.

Here is a link that might be useful: review

I have a Cuisinart convection bread machine. This is the 3rd bread machine I've had and I have to say...it's eally a nice one. My first was a Welbilt, second was a Breadman, and now the Cuisinart. I like to use it for the "controlled atmosphere" when I'm making bread. For instance, when I make a French boule, I let it do the mixing, rising, and proofing. Then I take it out and do the shaping and final rising before baking. I usually make boule and more complicated breads when I'm home, but don't want to be tied to the kitchen during the process. The bread machine makes the lengthy process easier.
It's great for making pizza doug, too. I use mine at least 3-4 times a week, in addition to my stand mixer.

Hmm.... Now you got me interested in breadmakers. Would sure beat havin to run to the store at 10:00pm everytime FH decided he needs a loaf of bread to bring to work in the am.

I have a Black and Decker bread machine that will make a 1 or 2 lb loaf. Mine is older too and the bread comes out tall, the newer Black and Decker bread machines the bread comes out like a regular loaf - long.

I make my pizza dough in the bread machine or dough for rolls. I've made some dough for some pretty good artisan type breads in it as well but I usually don't have the ingredients on hand so only make those once in a while. I make whole wheat bread most often using the machine.

My pizza dough recipe makes enough dough for 2-12 inch pizzas. I make one pizza then use the rest of the dough and make donuts.

I need to forget that I know about making those donuts with left over dough. LOLOL

Anne

I am on my third machine. First welbuilt, this and the last one breadman.

Honest, I like the bread from the bakery about a 3/4 mile away a WHOLE lot better. Ever since I discovered that bakery, I go and buy already made.

Less clean up! :)

Induces exercise, as I walk to the bakery. :)

Double reason to let my machine rest.

Moni

I Wish we had a bakery close by :(, I'm at least 15 miles to any town. I haven't seen a bakery in a loooooong time. Unless you count the ones in the grocery store.

I forgot to ask, is there a big difference in the long loaf machines or the tall ones? I have the tall one now and don't care for it much, I don't like the way it slices.

The one I have, is the tall one. I just lay the loaf on its side to slice, unless I took the dough out and baked the loaf in a regular pan in the oven.

Oh, another thought: It may be good to look for a model that doesn't forget its setting if the power flickers.

Moni

I bought a Welbilt in 1989 and it is still going strong. I use to make bread in it all the time but have slowed down to a couple times a month for a Sunday treat. Here are a few of the recipes I have made: Raisin nut bread, Chilie Cheese, Onion Dill, Buttermilk, Potato, Maple Oatmeal, Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin, Hawaiian Coconut, Golden Egg with dried fruit. If anyone wants the recipes, let me know.
Clare

Joann, my friend has the machine that makes the long bread and it slices up like a bread you buy from the bakery.

My A&P bakery carries a cranberry and pumpkin seed artisan bread that I love and could very easily eat the entire loaf (small) in one sitting. Doesn't even need butter or anything on top. I've got to figure out how to make that dough so that it has the same texture and feel.

Anne

Anne, that is why I just go to the bakery. I can't get mine the same. I can also eat a loaf of bread just so, nothing with it. Yummmm

:)

Moni

I have two bread machines. Both are Zojirushi. One makes a one-pound loaf and the other makes a two-pound loaf.

Son had a Black and Decker 2-lb.er for a number of years, it leaked and ruined the motor, I guess.

He got another, for upwards of $100.

I'd been thinking that I should get one (I like bread that son figures costs 50 cents rather than $2.00, I figure 35 cents'll do it).

Anyway ... shortly after, I found a different one on a farm wagon rack, along with a lot of other yard sale stuff, by the roadside, several miles from home.

When I asked the price, the lady asked what was my offer. While I was considering ... should I offer $10.00 ... would that be too cheap? Should I offer $20.00 ... $15.00 ...?

She asked, "How about $7.50?".

I said that her price sounded O.K. with me. It's smaller - maybe 1 lb. size?

A few days later, Bruce's friend and I were driving along a street and he spoke of something by the roadside ... a bread machine ... so we came back to check it out.

Same as Bruce's Black and Decker, looked scarcely used, if ever.

We liberated it.

I've been using it for about 9 mos., I think. I've been pleased with it ... till last week.

All of a sudden, the loaf was only about half risen.

Maybe an anomaly ... tried again ... same result.

Third loaf - the same.

It happened all of a sudden, and I suspect that there's a problem with the setting ... but I have no idea what to do with it.

And - there was no instruction book, of course.

But Bruce gave me one.

I don't know where to find it, at the moment ... time to start looking, I guess.

ole joyful

No,I still make my bread the old fashioned way.I usually make 6 loaves at a time and freeze them as soon as they're cooled from the oven.
My mom always made her own bread,so i guess I just followed what she did...don't really use a recipe as such,just add flour until it feels right.
I like to get rid of my stresses by kneading the bread! LOL

I found a simple treatment to get my machine back on track, making regular loaves instead of raising about 1/3.

Pulled the plug ... re-inserted it.

Everything worked, just as originally.

It usually takes two pushes of the button to pull up the operating time numbers: 3:50. I think that the number was showing after one push, before ... maybe it would have worked had I done only one push.

Perhaps some info here may be interesting to folks who didn't see it in Feb.

ole joyful

Hmmm..methinks that's what that big white appliance is, in the cupboard above the fridge. Got it many years ago but not being big bread eaters..there it sits. This post just happened, ironically, 2 days after I'd been thinking about pulling it down & using it. I LOVE cheese bread-toasted to have w/coffee in the morning, but only 1 store carries it and then only on certain days. Anyone have a good recipe for cheese bread, using extra sharp cheddar?

My GF gave me hers...my son uses it more then I do...OHHH The SMELL of BREAD baking in the house is simply devine!! Must get that baby out again soon!!

So breadmakers...tell me this...how to get it out of the pan without tearing up the loaf?...can I spray it with something like pam before hand or will it ruin the recipe?

I love the smell on home baked bread. I always take it out of the breadmaker and bake it in the oven. The loaf comes out sized better (I have a Black and Decker) and it doesn't seem to bake right in my B/M. I don't mind doing that though. I also bake a lot of dinner rolls and sometimes cinnamon buns.

Liz, I watched my loaf while using my favorite baking setting. Really! And timed all times it kneads, and just moves anything. I wrote it all down.

That is how I found out, when it kneads the last time.

I now set myself a timer for 35 minutes, and when it goes off, I dump the dough, take the paddle out, and put the dough back in.

The bread comes out very easy now, and has a WHOLE lot smaller hole.

Double bonus. :)

Moni

sharon_fl - Here is my recipe.
Clare

Buttermilk Cheddar Cheese Bread.
1 pkg. yeast
3 cups bread flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 tbls sugar
1 cup buttermilk (at room temp.)
1/4 cup warm water
1 cup grated sharp extra cheddar cheese (option: 1/2 cup cheddar cheese & 1/2 cup blue cheese)

Put ingredients in the order that your bread machine instructions say to do it. (Every machine is different it seems.) Let it run through the cycles till the end.

Or take it out after it has gone through the final kneading and put in 2 greased bread pans to rise till doubled, about 45 minutes. Bake at 350 deg. preheated oven for 40-45 minutes. Place on wire racks to cool.

Thanks for getting my mind thinking of bread. I have a bread machine that has probably only been used 5 times at the most. I used to buy the mixes for the machines at the grocery but I haven't seen them in ages. So...I guess I'll have to add yeast to my shopping list and put that machine to use!!! I would love any recipes anyone has to share.

I use mine alot....when my dad was alive I used to make him jalapeno cheese bread all the time. DH reminded me the other night that he too loved that recipe. Guess I'll make him one this week. I love it in the winter especially with soups and stews.

Thanks OJ for bringing this back up again. I've been looking at different models on the internet. Would like one that makes the horizontal loaf rather than the vertical. Would love the Zojirushi because it has two paddles but it's also double the price or more. The Breadman looks like a good choice (but only one paddle). I can live with that.

ooooh bread! one of my weaknesses...forget the candies and cakes..well most of them anyway. anne's comments about fresh cinnamon rolls, donuts and pizza dough make me wanna dig through the pantry and get that hideous monster back out to reside on the counter top!

Anne....please share your pizza dough and donut recipe.

ooh no, now I really do have a delima! I couldn't even find my machine in my pantry! I know that crazy woman that slips into my house sometimes has been in there moving things around just to trick me...now I'll have to climb into the cabinet over the fridge to see if it's there...might even have to clean the top of the fridge while I'm there....darn it! Just keep posting...i'll be back,,,darn her!

I have one by Toastmaster. Ive had it for years and use it seveal times a week.

I make cinnamon rolls, different breads, pizza dough, sometimes I bake it in the machine and other times in the oven.

They are great things to have!!!!

I have one. I've had it about 10 years and I used it twice. I don't remember what brand it is and it's too far back in a bottom cabinet to see. It's another one of those things our kids will have to deal with someday.
Pat

How do I make sticky buns, please?

Greetings Ann in FL,

I got a box of yeast about 2" x 2" x 3", about a year ago for $5.00 that's only slightly over half used. Be sure to get the kind that you need for bread machines. I store it in a bottle, in the fridge.

The recipe that son gave me, for about a 2 lb. loaf, I think, was:

1 tbsp oil
2 cups water (slightly under that will probably suit you better, alter to suit)

4 cups all purpose flour, or 3 cups all-purp., 1 cup whole wheat (my choice) - if you use 2 cups or more whole wheat, may need to add a bit of gluten to make it rise suitably
1 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tsp yeast

Mix the dry ingredients and add to the pan after putting in the liquids.

I usually add some flax seed ... and on the weekend added some chopped dates and chopped English walnuts to take to the church pot-luck breakfast following early service - it was popular.

I try to drop a little of the oil over the spindle and the paddle as I think that it helps rhe paddle to slip off of the spindle, then drop the paddle on the spindle, drop in the water and then the mixed dry ingredients (which I'd measured into a container prior to measuring the water).

patruth,

The days of cheap food in North America are drawing to a close.

Maybe in a couple of years a 35 cent loaf of bread will look better than $2.00 in the store.

Just think, folks - now you can be well-bread, the easy way ... cheap, too!

ole joyful

Thanks Moni!! I'm gonna try that...the paddle just KILLS the look of the bread or maybe I'll just toss the dough in a pan and bake it in the oven!

Do you have a good cinnamon bread recipe?

I made a loaf this morning...it is rising as I type. But I did notice a few places I didn't pinch the seam too good. I know I will get better with practice.

Deb

I haven't made any recently but I used to let it rise, take it out of the mixer and put it in an ordinary bread pan, cover it with plastic film, sprayed with a little oil. Cover it with a towel until it rose and baked it, in the oven. It was very good and no hole in the bottom.

I like the idea of taking out the blade and doing it that way. One problem is that flour has doubled in price. I wish I had stocked up.

I used to do it the old fashioned way too, years ago.
ivamae