"cshenk" > wrote in message
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> Je_us wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> On Mon, 25 May 2015 15:44:21 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
>>
>> > In your opinion it is good. The bread that I make takes many
>> > hours. Not 5 minutes and as I have said many times before, I do
>> > not like bread from a bread machine.
>>
>> So, you have somewhere to buy bread just like the bread that takes you
>> five hours to bake? If not, then the comparison is invalid.
>
> I am having fun trying to imagine a bread maker so bad that it takes
> them actually 5 hours actual time to make bread. With a bread machine,
> you spend 5 minutes of your time for a basic bread. If you take it out
> in dough mode and bake it outside of the machine to rolls and such, add
> 10 minutes.
>
As I have said countless times before. I had a bread machine. I don't have
it any more. I hated the thing on so many levels. I tried using it several
times and it only ever produced one loaf that was edible. But the loaves
were rather useless. The design made a strange, tiny loaf with a hole in
the bottom. Could not be used for sandwiches ever.

And I had to keep babysitting it becaue it moved all over the counter. It
was very noisy too.

> It was a given that rising time is needed. ANYONE who makes bread
> knows that.

And that would have to be factored into the time. Right? I remember when
my parents got their first microwave. My mom had a cookbook and it said you
could make fudge in something like 10 minutes. My brother wanted me to make
it. I did. Imagine his disappointment when I took it out, put it in a pan
and then it had to chill for many hours. He thought it would be ready to
eat when I took it out.
>
> Contact time is less with a machine. Results are better than store
> bread by far.

Who cares? And no, mine certainly wasn't better at all.