If it is good and clean does it have to come out? Does it move? If it is clean and moves, I would not worry much about it.

Sue

I thought that dcarch had some suggestion about this a couple years ago but I haven't found it. At that time (and will repeat), I think I suggested that you might be able to use a cheap gear puller that you might find in an auto parts store in their cheap tools bin for under $10.

I think you should only give the vinegar an hour or two. I do like Marilyn_sue's idea of using in while stuck on. There is an old trick for stuck tool to just use them and hope the regular action will break them free. Perhaps the paddle will come free under use!

Thank you so much, Marilyn and Chas for your recommendations. The paddle still operates and it is clean so I washed out the vinegar, rinsed well and dried. Decided I didn't want to start a loaf so late in the day so everything non-perishable in the recipe is lined up on the counter to go for it in the morning. I'll be making Annie's Grandma's Farmhouse Bread. If this doesn't work out, I'll pick up the cheap gear puller.

Madonna

Let us know how your bread turns out, sounds good to me.

Sue

I wouldn't use any tool on the beaters to pry them out (particularly if they have a non-stick coating). I normally take them out as soon as I empty out the bread and it's difficult enough as it is. I put hot water to level above the beaters and then carefully use an up/down motion to ease them off (sometimes it takes me 30 seconds and other times it's 5 minutes). I take a non-abrasive scrub sponge to clean the metal post that holds the beaters and also use a narrow brush to clean the channel of the beater. I have the BB-PAC 20 model and the beaters and inner container are really expensive to replace. Good luck.

A gear puller may not work because the puller hooks may be too thick to get in the gap under the paddle.

Try this:

Tie a cord under the paddle. fill the bread bucket with boiling water, after the water cooled down, pull the cord as hard as you can while holding the bucket down.

Wear eye protection in case the paddle flies out.

dcarch

To build on dcarch’s string suggestion, looping the cord around a fixed object resting above the bucket, then use another object to twist the looped line. That will give you torque and pull in a more controlled manner.

ETA - just looking at mine. Do you have the play to wiggle it back and forth? If not, any pulling will damage the whole thing if they’re not in the center position on the shaft. That’s the first direction to work on.

Donna, I've always done the same as you as soon as the bread is done and out, but I was so sick, I. Guess I completely forgot about it and haven't made bread since. You have the same model I have and, yes, that inner bucket and beaters are too expensive.

Dcarch and Foodon a stump, If I have to, I will try the cord. I keep thinking, how to get the inner part cold enough to shrink a bit while the outer part is hot enough from the boiling water to expand. Regardless, I just started a loaf of bread in it, so we wait to see what happens. I'll keep everyone posted.

So let me relieve your mind on one point: the chill and expand idea doesn't work. You need to expand everything because it's the expansion of the little bit of air between the two that will actually loosen it.

Meanwhile, I'm hoping the batch of bread will do the trick. ;)

Madonna, I'm glad that fixed your Zo, I love mine and would hate to have anything happen to it, I use it all the time. I'm too late to this thread to give any advice, so I'm happy it's fixed!

Happy New Year, and a Happy and Healthy decade to you.

Annie

Update! Zara loved the bread. I had put it in a ziplock bag on a rack on top of the very tall refrigerator. Don't know how it fell off, but found the empty bag with a big hole in it on the kitchen floor this morning. Oh, well, the bread machine will run again today.

Madonna

Que Zara Sera !!!

dcarch

Well, Happy Holidays to Zara, LOL.

Annie