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- From: aem@symbiosis.ahp.com (a.e.mossberg)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Bread makers: recommendations?
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 10:00:32 -0500
- Organization: Symbiosis Corporation, Miami, Florida (305) 597-4000
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- jtt@tct.com (John Tombs) writes:
- >Would any bread maker owners out there care to let me know their views?
- >Surprisingly, Consumer Reports doesn't seem to have tested them.
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- aem@symbiosis.ahp.com replies:
- How often do you go out and buy speciality (i.e. non-sandwich) breads?
- Think about how many times you can do that before you match the purchase
- price of the bread machine, let alone operating costs. And will you stop
- buying bread outside once you have a bread machine?
-
- Like most appliances, bread machines tend to gather dust after a few
- months of activity.
-
- The bread will not taste the same as that from a bakery. Sure you can
- make special breads that you can't buy, but you can do that now unless
- you are disabled, and perhaps even then.
-
- For about the same price as a bread machine, you can buy a food
- processor that is powerful enough to knead dough, which is the only real
- "advantage" of a bread machine. You certainly don't need another oven,
- particularly one that can only be used for a single purpose. Do you
- have two square feet of kitchen counter space begging for use?
-
- FYI, I have a bread machine. Three friends bought theirs on the basis of
- seeing mine. I know another eight people with bread machines. That's
- twelve bread machines in all. Among those twelve probably only one is in
- use during any given week. When I use mine now, I use it solely to
- knead the dough.
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- aem
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- andrew mossberg systems specialist symbiosis corporation
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