Yes, unless you are on the fast setting. I think it is to let the
temperature of the ingredients equalize.

S

Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> I posted this to the baking group, too.
>
> Is the thing supposed to sit there and do NOTHING for more than a half
> hour after I've put the ingredients in and selected the Basic cycle and
> pressed the red start/stop button?
>
> I don't have the manual, only Lora Brody's Bread Machine Baking book and
> the machine's owners are in Disneyworld and unavailable.
>
> HELP!!
> I await your counsel.
> (And by now the warm water isn't warm!)