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When I recieved my bread machine I could not get it to work ,that was because it has an on and off switch on the back! My other machines never had that feature lol it works very well now I love it!

Makes really good bread. I like the diff crust darkness options. Esp like that the loaf has a shape more like "normal" bread than many other machines make. Even whole wheat bread has a really nice consistency after baking.

it make the bread perfectly as it is on the photo wheel i see some of the comments saying doesn't work or didn't do the dough well or not cooking the dough that depends on the ingredient you put you have to be very persaid with the ingredient and 1 more tip while the dough is mixing or as soon as you start the machine do not open the hatch or the bread is not going to be cooked as a bread you bye in the store

Had a breadman before but it fell on the floor and broke when it was shaking during the cycle. Very happy with this one doesn't seem to shake as much and like the added cycles for jam and such.

great product, quick shipment

So far I'm happy with the bread machine. I bought it for the gluten free setting and I've been getting better gluten free bread because of it.

Very nice. Supplement your bread machine repertoire with this book. Not only recipes but general information about baking and using machines. I didn't know there was that much to learn about vanilla...

Simply the best. The info can be overwhelming at first but stay with it, it clears and you have a gold mine. All those things you wonder about are in this book. And the rescipes .....oh yummy. I have not had a fail and I admit I sort of ad lib sometimes...add egg, whole milk etc. when its not called for but its fun to experiment and it all comes out yum.

I bought this along with a Cuisinart convection bread maker and Ive tried a few of the recipes. Wow, this lady knows how to bake !! I made honey corn masa bread and potatoe bread , also cinnamon swirl bread, to name a few. All of these scored an A with me. She was able to adapt these recipes to use with any bread machine and if you follow her instructions to the letter these breads turn out perfect and absolutely delicious . I think my convection machine though, is superior to the regular bread machines. This book is five star, don't hesitate to buy !! You wont be sorry !!

If you love homemade bread or want to know how to make delicious ones, this is the book for you. Soo many recipes you'll be finding reasons to bake them all before you finish the last recipe. You an even make some without a bread machine. We tried them both ways.

Absolutely fantastic recipe book!!! There is much more than just recipes in this book, though. Reading all the additional material included in the book was like attending a cooking class by a master bread maker. There were many great tips and ideas. Baked nearly two dozen recipes and every one comes out perfect! These recipes were far better than the ones that came with the bread machine. Author gives you a template to create your own breads, as well. I have stopped buying bread at the grocery store entirely, and have made jam, pasta, and pizza dough from this book in addition to bread. This book is amazing!

Every recipe I've tried has turned out beautifully-up until tonight. I have an inexpensive Oster bread machine and it has done a wonderful job with these recipes. Tonight I tried the Chocolate Challah recipe-it is a total flop-stuck to sides of pan and not rising at all. I realize I might have made an error but I've read the recipe several times and don't know how it failed. This recipe is quite rich but sounded delicious, I love the whole wheat recipes, the rye breads are fabulous and the Sour Cream Bread is to die for!! Of course, how can it be bad - it uses a whole cup of sour cream ! I thing the book is worth the price and I will just keep baking bread and see what works and what doesn't. I've made about 10 loaves of bread this month-all perfect- so I guess I was ready for a failure.By the way-have they ever published corrections to any of these recipes? Just in case it's not my mistake?

PRO:- Works really well. Makes good bread.- The loaf shape is a bit odd-- less oblong than expected. When you get the rise just right, though, the result is a fairly short loaf with a slice shape similar to that of store-bought bread.- Then again, the "dough" setting offers the option of removing the bread, plopping it in a different pan or braiding it, and creating a more homemade shape.CON:- THE BEEPING. Seriously it beeps five or six LOUD beeps to signal the end of EVERY stage....which means extended beeping every 30-40 minutes over the course of several hours. We like to set the bread to bake overnight, so this would be a dealbreaker in a small space.

This bread machine makes wonderful bread IF you use a recipe from the included book. Any recipe I have tried from other bread books does not turn out as well. The same applies to using the timer. I am always careful to not allow the yeast to come in contact with liquid ingredients before the cycle begins but the bread does not rise as well as it does without the timer. On the plus side, I really like the fruit and nut dispenser.

It works well, except that the stirrer came off quiet often (otherwise I would give it a 5 star.)

Arrived on time and in good shape. The pre-baking cycle to get rid of industrial oils from manufacture truly, truly stinks, but then it works well. I did notice for the first couple of dough making times a bit of black oil still out around the mixing paddle, but that clearer with further use. Personally, I find all bread making machines much better for making dough than actual breads as the size of the baking pan is small and so the breads are very dense, but using it to make dough and then popping it out for hand rounding and oven baking is super.

The functions are very similar to my old Kenmore bread maker which is nice. The collapsible mixing paddle is very helpful. However I have some minor gripes. The measuring cup is NOT accurate. Be sure to compare it to a Pyrex or Oxo measuring cup before using! I don't know if it is calibrated for the included recipes or not. I'd suggest you use your regular measuring cups and then add water is dough looks too dry. I have a favorite old recipe I use. Also, the instructions don't warn about how noisy the automatic nut dispenser is nor that the machine will give numerous "anxious" beeps. I thought there was something terribly wrong the first time I used it. And, the metal handle gets quite hot unlike the old one with the plastic lid/handle. But, repeating, the collapsible kneading paddle is a very nice improvement.

I like the machine but I am annouyed at the fact that the paddle ends up inside my loaf after baking.I had a difficult time operating the menu. It didn't really give you instructions so it was trial and error.The light/medium settings were just a guess.Intruction manual could have used some examples. Also the menu LEDs were difficult to see.But once I got it going it worked fine.

Yes, w book is packed with lots of recipes for your bread machine, but should you buy it? If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't buy it. Although the recipes are great, I just wanted basic bread machine recipes. If all you want are basic bread recipes, the King Arthur Flour website has a wide variety of bread and dough recipes available for FREE. If, however, you want a larger variety of recipes and more in depth explanations of the art of bread-making, this is the book for you.

I enjoy lots of wonderful recipes throughout this book. Very easy recipes to read and understand. If you are new to bread making this is a good book to have in your collection!

Very good book on the subject, unless you are married to gluten free nonsense. All the recipes here, more or less, demand more, not less, gluten.

Great book for bread machine recipes but the Kindle version is not as useful as a physical book for something like this. The designer that made the kindle version could have put more thought into where the page breaks etc (like they do on the printed book). And there are mistakes in the Kindle version (see the White Country Bread recipe for example - no measure for potato flakes and obviously a mistake). Also one suggestion to the author is provide the weight in grams. More specific and easier for bakers using scales.

This is a fantastic cookbook, I use the recipes in here every week and have found a few reliable picks that the kids love for daily sandwiches as well as pizza dough and tons of interesting breads to try out. Our favorites are banana sandwich bread, maple sandwich bread, and semolina pizza dough. At first I was disappointed that all the measurements are volume based (cups, etc) instead of using weight for the flour, but I've found I still get consistent results by carefully scooping and leveling my flour. I expect to continue experimenting with these recipes for years to come.

I bought this book with my breadmaker. I'm glad I did, because the number of recipes that came with the breadmaker was appallingly slim.I've made several types and they've all come out great. Be warned, however, that most of the recipes ask for gluten, so if you don't have some, get it. It's easily available in your grocer's baking aisle. And the "Orientation" section is a good read if you are new to making bread in a machine. She also includes a chart to convert measuring cups to weights for measuring ingredients (and after doing weighed amounts for flour for my last couple of loaves I highly recommend picking up a small digital kitchen scale and using it in your baking).Some notes:- I made the Dutch Sugar Bread and it was AMAZING, but the cubes did scratch the corners of my bread pan. This is my fault; the author warned that she's heard of this happening. It does not appear to have affected the non-stick nature of the pan, but I will be more careful next time. Of course, I also didn't get the little gooey pockets of sugar, so I might just use granulated or totally crushed sugar cubes next time. But the flavor was out of this world!- Under pizza dough, she has 1 and 2lb recipes. Unless you have a giant pizza stone, make the smaller batch. I only have a 12" stone, and my last two crusts have turned out impossibly thick, almost like deep-dish. Incredibly good, but very thick. I thought this might be because of the rise period after you turn out the dough, but now I'm thinking that I've got too much dough for my stone.- There is no recipe for cinnamon raisin bread, which I find almost unbelievable. But there are recipes for raisin bread, so I'm sure you can add cinnamon to taste. But still - that's such a staple bread (IMO) that I can't believe it's missing.But well worth the purchase and a really good reference.

I had the older version and it was better. This one is pretty much the same except it has the hinged paddle which constantly pops off during the kneeding cycle.

I have had many bread machines. I was happy to see it had a blade that collapses after baking so you don't have a hole in the entire loaf. HOWEVER, it does get stuck just like my last 4 machines. Very disappointed about that. Otherwise the machine is fine.

This is a nice bread machine. My only two issues with it are that the paddle gets stuck inside the bread and it is very noisy.

Simple white bread came out fine. Raisin bread was a disaster (twice) with raisins massed at the bottom of the loaf. Whole wheat bread (not 100%) was a disaster (twice) until I figured that the recipe in the book provided half the amount of required liquid. I am still working on it.

Folding kneading paddle causes air pockets sometimes. Other times the loaf is great. The rubber insert in the tip of the paddle causes a black mass in the center of the bread. I did remove the insert and got rid of the black spot. I prefer the Breadman Ultimate Plus model for its repeatability. The baking cycles between the two machines are not the same so require ingredient adjustments for similar recipes. In my case I had to reduce the dry yeast when using this model as well as modifying the baking time.

The collapsible paddle scrapes the bottom of the pan when the machine is kneading the dough. It has taken off a ring of the non-stick coating in the bottom of the pan. I called the toll-free number listed in the book for customer service. I was told that they will replace the pan and paddle under warrantee, but they are backordered and it will take at least two weeks to get them. I am also disappointed that there is no light in the machine..

Not sure why, but some of these were not tested right. They are a total failure ...

I bought this book and hoped it would be very easy to understand and use. The reading is easy but the recipes seem very dated. The types of flour and the use of gluten separate might be useful as a modification to a recipe but the recipes seem to belong to someone making the bread by hand. I tried one recipe and decided that an online cookbook was more valuable to me. Disappointed.

Though there are many great recipes which I have tried, most seem to be too fancy for everyday needs

I was really excited about this book from the reviews, but was less impressed when I realized nearly every recipe asks to add gluten. I just use bread flour, I don't own gluten. It would be nice if there were more recipe variety in that sense, being so many rely on an ingredient I don't keep. I ended up using Google search for recipes way more than this.

If you are looking for recipes for basic breads this is not the book for you. However, if you are open to trying a large variety of breads this is your book. I did however really enjoy the gluten free chapter

To be honest I haven't tried any recipes from this book yet, and will likely update my review accordingly once I do, but I wanted to write a quick review warning people of some very confusing information about yeast in this book.I got a bread machine and all the basic ingredients for it and made a couple loafs of bread from the instruction manual, so I got this book to make some more interesting breads. The first recipe I looked at said I had to use X amount of SAF yeast or Y amount of bread machine yeast. The yeast I had been using was Red Star active dry yeast. I looked up yeast in the appendix to see what SAF (a brand) yeast was equivalent to, and, to my dismay, found a section in the book saying that active dry yeast and fresh yeast should NEVER be used in a bread machine. This was extremely confusing as active dry yeast was the yeast that my bread machine's manual said I should use for all settings except express bake.Further searching through the cookbook led me to the introductory section about yeast and it's various forms. Hensperger claims there are five varieties of yeast: active dry, fresh cake, fast-acting/instant, bread machine, and quick-rise. After extensive internet research, I have determined that this information is WRONG. fast-acting/instant, bread machine, and quick-rise are all different names for the fastest acting form of yeast. Active dry yeast is what Hensperger refers to as SAF yeast (I think she maybe got confused because most of the labelling on SAF packaging is in French?), and can be used in a bread machine perfectly fine. The only kind of yeast you shouldn't use in a bread machine is fresh cake yeast.Hopefully this information helps other readers.EDIT: I tried a number of simpler recipes from this book. I found that with my Oster bread machine the bread always came out much larger and heavier than expected from the recipe amount, as in the 1.5 lbs loaf would overflow my 2 lbs bread machine. The recipes are tasty enough, but I find it difficult to get the density right.

Difficult to use; instructions followed carefully often with mediocre results.

I have used this machine 3 time using receipt from the cook book. The bread did not brown and bread was to moist. The third the bottom coating in bottom of pan came off into the bread. I would now recommend this machine.

The bread machine is new. However, the menu buttons do not work as is described in the manual that came with the machine.In the menu it stated that you can select the cycle, e.g., to make sower dough bread, press a button, and the mashine will do the rest from mixing the ingredients to baking. In reality, it is not the case -- the machine stays quiet for as long as you wish to wait. We ended up using the "make dough" cycle and followed by the "bake only" cycle. So the machine works, after all.

For the first 5 or 6 loaves this machine worked well. You gotta love the smell of nice fresh baked bread in the house. But after that each loaf comes out with a grey substance that is coming from the paddle. The paddle comes off of the spindle sometimes while mixing! The design sounded good...a folding paddle! But i think Breadman should stick with the standard type. I am not a satisfied customer.

At 5'4" I'm too short to see the instruction on the top of the machine. I didn't like the hole in the bottom of the bread the paddle made or that you have to really pull out the paddle. It even leaves a hole in the bottom if you just use the bake cycle without the paddle. Returned.

It is not complex, but...1. It overbakes the loaf. Thick, darl crust everytime. I can't get it to accept a Light crust color setting.2. The paddle sticks in every loaf and has to be dug out, ruing about 4 slices each time. It does not reverse at the end of the knead cycle as it should, thus is a major part of the bottom of the loaf.3. Loaf is not as high as with other machines.

We've had terrible luck geeting these recipes to work in our bread machine. But, to be fair, I don't know whether the issue is the recipes or our bread machine.

this book is outdated

I bought the paperback. I agree with the reviewer who complained about the font and ink. The font is too small, probably to fit in all the extraneous stuff into 643 pages. To add insult to injury, the ink is light brown. The ingredient lists are in the same typeface on a very green background. It is very difficult to read and use. I am surprised a professional cookbook writer would allow a book like this to be published, it is not user friendly. I am not sure if I even want to try any recipes after reading some of the reviews.

Lots of speacial ingredients like vital wheat gluten, instant potato, dry milk ect...Free online recipes as good or better.

More like a textbook about bread machines than a cookbook about making bread in a Bread Machine. The format of this book was exactly like a textbook but the recipes seemed to be secondary over the subject of bread machines.There is a lot of unnecessary information in this book and I did not like the fact that it is over 15 years old, it was last published in 2000. And bread machines, peoples' tastes and recipes have changed a lot since then. Plus this book makes it seem like making bread in a Bread Machine is a major undertaking and it is not. This book could easily turn learning how to use your bread machine into a daunting experience. Which is not why you bought a cookbook for it in the first place.I disliked this cookbook, so much that I sent it back. And instead, I got Donna Washburn & Heather Butt's, "300 Best Bread Machine Recipes." And I am so glad, I did because this is a much better cookbook and I am making fantastic and tasty bread.

This is a great book but only if you buy the print edition. There are numerous errors and omissions in the ingredient lists and quantities in several of the recipes. Some are obvious and easy to spot but there may be others that aren't so obvious.As a result, I can't trust the recipes which makes the Kindle edition practically worthless to me. I returned it and reported the errors to Amazon. Hopefully, the publisher will proofread it more carefully and issue an update. I hope so because I'd love to own it. The author is one the best known authorities on breadmaking in general and in bread machine baking in particular.

My previous Breadman was a delight until the pan started leaking, probably because of damage, so when I needed a replacement, this new model seemed like the perfect choice. The collapsible paddle was a major attraction, too. Well, I am enormously disappointed in this new one, and have returned it for a refund. The thing stopped working after the first loaf. The LED readout is dull and hard to see. It is a beautiful machine, but a total dud.

Failed new out of the box. Never turned on. Waited too long to unpack after delivery so return period expired.

Do not do not buy this....note all the problems with apparently oil dropping into the dough after one or two uses...exact thing happened go us and it was a gift and an embarrassment let alone the health ussues...can't believe Amazon still carried this item since this is a COMMON problem

The beater at the bottom mostly stays flat and the dough is useless. A lot of money spent for a useless piece of equipment

UPDATE! We're down to one star now as zero is not an option. As others have reported the collapsible paddle is now actively chewing its way through the bottom of the pan.On top of this the recipes included DO NOT work in this machine. The measurements included for everything has either too much flour or too little water. This piece of junk is heading straight into the dumpster.Whatever you do, do not buy this useless excuse for a machine.

I bought this as a present for my wife. She has had very little success with it I'm afraid.There seem to be a number of errors with quantities in the supplied recipe books suggesting to me that they have not been properly tested however my main complaint is that the seal for the bearing that supports the mixing paddle appears to have ruptured leaking black grease into the dough mix. This is on a device that has been used maybe 8 to 10 times.Poor build quality + badly thought out documentation means I will not be buying anything else from Breadman.

The cookbook does not have any images; it would have been extremely helpful to see the end product before attempting to create it. I am using You Tube instead. Much more helpful!!!

Not what I expected for recipes.

So far I have tried 3 of the white bread recipes. For all of them I used the dough cycle and baked in the oven. None of the recipes that I tried produced a light fluffy loaf.I tried the milk bread recipe that was quite chewy, then I tried the honey white recipe that was very dense and heavy, then I tried the homestyle white that was spongy and heavy. All the recipes tried were fair but nothing fantastic. I'm going to try the hamb/hotdog buns and the english muffin recipes but am not expecting anything special as the other recipes were just mediocre. Found a recipe for fluffy white on the web. So far this book has not impressed me and as it is I wouldn't recommend it.

This is not the bread book that I thought it was. You have to be experienced with your breadmaker to enjoy using this book....it isn't for newbies for sure...

I rarely write reviews but I was so disappointed by this book that I felt moved to share my dismay and even warn others not to buy it. I've made lots of good bread in my Zojirushi from borrowed recipes, but the first recipe I made out of this book just yielded a panful of baked crumbs! I couldn't even imagine what went wrong--I had followed the recipe to the letter, and it wasn't a case of bad yeast (although the author's discussion of yeast is confusing and makes one doubt the validity of every recipe in the book). I wasted 4 and a half cups of good whole wheat flour on this recipe, not to mention 3 and a half tablespoons of vital wheat gluten--now if that couldn't make the crumbs stick together, nothing could! I wish I had taken these one-star reviews more seriously before I bought this book. I'm wondering now how to return the first book I've ever returned to Amazon....

I really wanted to love this kindle book. But i dont. The problem isnt the recipes, they are well authored, there is a lot of information about the ingredients, there are several variations of many recioes. The problem is the kindlization of the book. There are two indexes, Subjects and Recipes. Neither contains page numbers or location numbers or hot links. So they are just a list of things you could,at best, consider to be search terms. However, you cannot rely on their finding anything useful. Case in point: the subject index contains the phrase "tips for starters" as in sourdough starters. If you enter this term in your kindle search, you get one result: the listing in the Subject Index. Circular and useless. I own many Kindle cookbooks. This one is poorly crafted and frustrating to use. Stick to paper on this one.