A bread machine or breadmaker is a home appliance for baking bread. It consists of a bread pan with a paddle mounted in the center, in a small special-purpose oven, with a control panel. While most bread machines have different cycles for different kinds of dough (including straight white bread, whole grain, European-style (sometimes labeled "French"), and dough-only for pizza dough and shaped loaves baked in the oven), many also have a timer to allow the bread machine to activate without operator attendance, and some high-end models even allow the user to program a custom cycle.

Knead bread with your feet? Absolutely. The PPPM generates Green Energy to power the kneading cycle on an Oster bread machine. A solar oven could finish the baking. 25% Power Reduction! Delicious!

Three nutritious recipes for oat bread. Two are for the bread machine and the third, Scottish Oat Bread is a good choice for Robbie Burns Day on Jan. 25

There are thousands of free bread machine recipes online, so you really don't need to buy any recipe books. You can easily find them of recipe sites and forums. Here are a few to get you started.

I lost my bread machine manual and I couldn t find it on the manufacturer s site. This site has links to manuals for Breadman, Panasonic, Toastmaster, Zojirushi and Morphy Richards bread machines with instructions on how to find them on each manufacturer s site. Now I can eat nice fresh bread again.

This recipe for Bohemian Christmas bread is made in the bread machine