On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:12:51 -0700 (PDT), val189
> wrote:

>On Sep 20, 3:53 pm, Boron Elgar > wrote:
>
>>
>> >I used my machine to mix the ingredients and let it rise twice. At
>> >the beginning of the third rise, I removed the dough from the pan,
>> >streached it into a longish tube, divided it with a knife, and put the
>> >two halves into thin metal baking pans with an anti-stick coating like
>> >silverstone.
>
>I just use the dough cycle on the abm which takes hour and 40 mins,

My dough cycle takes the same amount of time. But the whole wheat
cyle does two kneads, which I presume is helpful.

>then I dump the dough straight from the ABM into a nonstick (WORTH
>THE MONEY - the bread almost jumps out of em) metal loaf pan and let
>it rise again for 45 minutes, covered with some oiled plastic wrap
>Preheat the oven during the last 10 or 15 minutes of this 45 minute
>period. I bought the loaf pans at Kmart for about 5.99 each.
>
>
>I don't bother with a third rise-- heck, I'm never home home long
>enough during the day for all this expenditure of time.

My machine has a delay start cycle. I set it to start in the middle
of the night then got up at 5am to take the dough out of the machine
and divide it. After the third rise and baking, I had fresh bread for
breakfast at 7:30.