On Sep 21, 8:57*am, val189 > wrote:
> On Sep 20, 6:13 pm, Bob Simon > wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I have never trusted this feature, so never tried it. *Isn't the bread
> a little hard to slice, being that fresh and still warm? *I always let
> mine sit at least 12 hours before slicing.

I've never used a bread machine but I'm pretty good at slicing bread
just out of the oven. Just saw quickly and with almost no downward
pressure on the knife. The apply lots of buttern and eat.