On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 02:05:54 -0000 (UTC), Bruce >
wrote:

>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.

What's a "BBM"... a Big Beautiful Milf?

>I used to have a vertical one, and the hole would go
>up one quarter of the (small) loaf or so.

So what, it makes little difference when the round slices are cut in
half, and that little paddle only protrudes into the loaf 3/4" at
most... and with those types of ABMs you can remove the paddle right
after the last knead, then there's just a small pock mark in the
crust, all gone with the first slice, here it's the last slice. I
very rarely set my ABM in advance so the bread is still hot when I
wake up, I don't enjoy bread hot from the oven, it's got to go on a
cooling rack for a while or it won't slice properly. I've enjoyed
bread from my ABM for more than 20 years. I used to use it twice a
week but these days twice a month as I don't eat nearly as much bread.
I like the ABM because it allows me to make odd flavors one loaf at a
a time and with very little clean up. Towards the end of the last
knead add a half cup each of cubed pepperoni and provolone to a pizza
dough.