Making bread with a mixer is fun but takes a lot of time. With the bread machine there really is no reason to buy preservative and sugar laden bread from the store.
Are these good these days? I LOVE bread and had bought several of first automatic bread makers in the 1990s. I really tried to use them but they really didn't produce good bread at all reliably. Curious if they work well now. Which one did you get?
In France, everyone seems to have a Moulinex; and I've never heard anyone complain about theirs.
I'm very happy with mine ("Moulinex Pain Plaisir"), though I'm slightly annoyed some programs (kneading-only and baking-only) cannot be put on a timer.
The no-knead (or low knead) recipes from J Kenji Lopez Alt are incredibly simple and incredibly good. You need to plan, but the actual active time spent is a couple of minutes. Works great if you're working from home.
