WOO!
It wasn't a surprise, my dad has a hard time shopping for me so I had to tell
him exactly what I wanted. It's the Breadman Deluxe Rapid and it kind of looks
like a little roundy rocketship (which prompted me to run around the kitchen
holding it over my head and making rocket noises).

Year and years ago I got a West Bend bread machine and it was a work horse. I
used it all the time. I loved making focaccia dough and cinnamon roll dough in
there. Eventually, after years of faithful service, it died. I went and picked
up and Oster without really researching. I hated that thing so much I ended up
selling it at a garage sale for cheap. It never got all the ingredients from
the edges of the pan so you ended up standing there vigilantly scraping the
sides. Hey, if I wanted to be vigilant about bread making I'd actually make
the bread myself instead of entrusting it to a robot.

I did a lot of research and this machine came highly rated. I won't use the
rapid, 59 minute cycle, everything I read says that your bread has so much
yeast in it that it almost tastes of alcohol.

I cannot wait to make my roasted garlic focaccia bread. YUM!

(I also got other cool things for christmas but they were mostly dinosaur
related and not food related)


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