Bread machines?

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I'm vaguely thinking of getting a bread machine - I get the impression that very little real skill is needed to use them, which suits me very well, and I do like really fresh bread in the morning occasionally.

But I don't know much about them, and there seem to be a lot of models with different features. So what I'm wondering is which are essential, and which are just feeping creaturism?

This page shows the models sold by Argos, about the most ubiquitous store in the UK. Since I want to try this without spending a fortune I'm tempted to go for the cheaper Morphy-Richards model - they have a long history of making reasonably good domestic appliances such as electric blankets and hairdriers. but I don't know it if has all the features I need.

All comments gratefully received.

Comments

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I haven't found the bread machine we have either hard to use or hard to clean. Quite the opposite. I don't use it very much, but that's mostly to do with the fact that it's huge and I don't have much counter space, so I have to go to the trouble of making room for it before I can make bread. If I had the room to leave it set up, I suspect I'd use it more often. Especially if I had one that would bake bread overnight, on a delay.