It's probably in a preheat cycle. Not all machines have the pre heat. Some
machines are programmable allowing the user to turn this off.
By now, you've probably figured this out and your bread is baking...

Rina


"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
...
> Yeah, I think you guys don't do bread machines, but I'm groveling.
> Is the thing supposed to sit there and do NOTHING for more than a half
> hour after I've put the ingredients in and selected the Basic cycle and
> pressed the red start/stop button?
>
> I don't have the manual, only Lora Brody's Bread Machine Baking book and
> the machine's owners are in Disneyworld and unavailable.