On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 12:50:16 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:

>On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 01:27:30 -0000 (UTC), Bruce >
>wrote:
>
>>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,
>
>Definitely better!
>
>>but don't you hate the paddle hole in the bread?
>
>No, not on the one I'm using at least. Put it this way - I didn't seem
>to notice it a great deal on the couple of loaves I have done so far.
>I think I just cut off that part, <shrug> no biggie for me. The chooks
>can have that.
>
>The third loaf is nearly ready, I'll pay closer attention to the
>paddle hole when it comes out this time.

Meh... it's just a 1" hole in the middle of the last 1-2" of the loaf.
I can live with that