On 20/1/2016 12:50 cshenk wrote:

> Bruce wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> On 20/1/2016 10:43 Je�us wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:09:04 -0800 (PST), Roy >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > One of my neighbors makes bread everyday with his inexpensive
>> > > bread-machine. The bread is so good that I have just ordered one
>> > > for myself. Do many of you RFCers use these machines or has the
>> > > interest in them waned? Just curious.
>> >
>> > I almost started this very same thread myself.
>> >
>> > When I went camping recently, a friend used her bread maker and we
>> > had nice, fresh bread each morning. For some reason I've always been
>> > highly sceptical of bread makers, preferring to do it by hand.
>> >
>> > Last week I borrowed an old, well used (noisy!) bread maker to try
>> > for myself, still being a little resistant to the idea. Well, I'm
>> > not a skeptic any more, and sometime soon I'll be buying my own.
>> >
>> > I have the bread maker running right now as I type this.
>> > The time and trouble it saves is well worth it.
>>
>> I think it's always better than supermarket bread, but don't you hate
>> the paddle hole in the bread? Or do you remove the paddle after the
>> kneading phase?
>
> I do it in dough mode most of the time and form to small buns or loaves.
>
> Besides, the hole is not a problem. Thats where you'd center slice the
> bread anyways.

You must have a BBM that makes horizontal loaves. I used to have a
vertical one, and the hole would go up one quarter of the (small) loaf
or so.

--
Bruce