I got a bread machine two months ago. I'm baking bread about every other day, and it tastes great! I used to get bread from Japanese bakery every now and then because their bread is really good, but because the flour price has been shooting up in recent years, the price of the loaf of bread raised to $3.60 from $2.60 in just 5 years! I did some calculation : If I get two loaf of bread every week, in a year it comes up $187.00 I got Panasonic SD-YD250 Automatic Bread Maker which was about $135.00, I might spend more than $187 with ingredients in the first year, but from the second year, it will cost less than buying at the bakery, and it is easier than I thought to bake a bread.
My recipe for the tasty bread is like this:
Bread Flour : 250 g
Non fat dry milk : 20g
Brown sugar : 20g
Sea salt : 3g
Butter : 15g
Water : 170cc
Dry yeast : 1 tea spoon
Put all the ingredients except for dry yeast in the bucket. Put dry yeast in the yeast dispenser and set the machine to Bake, size: M, crust: light and press start. In 4 hours on regular, or 2 hours on fast setting, you can have a warm fresh loaf of bread!
You can set a timer and wake up with good smell of bread, but it is noisy so don't sleep in a same room as this machine.
My only regret is not spending $20 more to get a machine with a raisin dispenser.
