Thank you to all who provided personal opinion on the value or lack of value
of a bread machine. The general consensus of those I received comments from,
either on the list or as personal e-mail, was that the bread machine speeds
up the process and allows more bread to be created but at the cost of losing
the wonderful bread-making contact and richness and surprise of
hand-kneading. Several people suggested a heavy-duty mixer instead or
suggested some combination of bread machine with hand-kneading. I will
continue to think about it for now. Again, thank you for your honest thoughts.
Debbie Nance