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I haven’t made bread at home for many years but I did have a machine just like the one shown above and just got rid of it about six months ago. I was divesting myself of things and this was one that I did not use.

As I recall, the machine would perform the whole process of bread making from mixing the dough, to kneading the dough, letting it rest and finally baking the bread. The only real problem with baking the bread was that the loaf came out oddly shaped (at least for slicing into a standard loaf form). And that is why at the last I would use the machine to get the dough ready to bake, and then put it in a regular loaf pan and bake it in the oven.

But now, unless I could use sprouted grain to make the bread dough, and I don’t know how to do that, I don’t knead to make bread at home. I do like the flavor of Aldi’s “Knock Your Sprouts Off” Reduced Sodium bread, and it doesn’t appear to raise my blood sugar, but I normally only eat one slice a day, with peanut butter, some honey and a generous portion of Ceylon cinnamon.