"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> "Dee Randall" > wrote:
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>> Hello, I do bread machines and have for a loooooong time (plus artisan).
>> Just finished a pizza dough taken out of the bread machine -- Yeah, I'm
>> experienced.
>> Here's an answer that's probably likely to insult, and it's sorta like --
>> did you plug in the machine -- but, wait, that's not it.
>>
>> Push Start, THEN select your selection, "Basic, Wheat, Dough, French, or
>> whatever."
>>
>> If this is not the problem -- then there IS a problem.
>> Dee
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>> "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.
>> >
>> > HELP!!
>> > I await your counsel.
>> > --
>> > -Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
>> > "Maligning an individual says more about you than the one you malign."
>> > http://web.mac.com/barbschaller; blahblahblog 9/29/2006
>> > http://jamlady.eboard.com
>
> Thanks, DeeDee. YES, I plugged it in! <Barb whaps Dee upside the head>.
> There's something else going on, I'm now convinced. I've done the
> buttons in your sequence, too, with no response from the machine.
> Phooey and ptooey!'
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> --
> -Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
> "Maligning an individual says more about you than the one you malign."
> http://web.mac.com/barbschaller; blahblahblog 9/29/2006
> http://jamlady.eboard.com

My latest breadmaker is a Toastmaster -- not top of the line, but seems
there is always something. With this one, when I lift the top up when the
bread is finished, it actually goes flying off the table and onto the floor.
Now the plastic of the top frame is actually bent so there is a gap and the
top never fully closes. The reason that it goes flying off is that the
little plastic pins that hold it in place must decrease in size while
cooking, thereby not holding the lid tight when lifted.

I'm thinking perhaps my next breadmaker will be the high priced (and I
assume over-priced) Zojo. My first one was a Zojo, but the next immediate
one was an Oster and they were both equal in quality IMO. So perhaps they
have changed.

Good luck. I hope you didn't pay a lot for your breadmaker. From the time
I bought my last Oster until I bought the last breadmaker, the Toastmaster,
the price had doubled.

Dee Dee