The shaft in the mixing pan of my 9 year old Hitachi bread machine
recently froze. Rather than pay $50 to replace it, I purchased a new
Breadman Ultimate ABM. The new machine, which has a much stronger
mixing cycle makes much finer bread. It sometimes takes a long time to
mix all of the ingredients from the corners of the pan ( this is in
response to a recent question). The only negative that I have
experienced is that the dough is not evenly distributed in the bottom of
the pan and the finished loaf is higher on one end.
Larry at klev8502@eclipsetel.com