The invention of the bread making machine revolutionized kitchens all around the world. Instead of taking almost a full day to bake loaves of home-made bread and spend time cleaning up afterwards, with a bread maker, you can have a delicious loaf of fresh bread with very little effort. You still need to have flour and yeast, but you don't have to get your hands into the sticky mess and knead the dough. Now all you have to do is measure the proper ingredients, place them in the machine and it does all the hard work for you.
The Welbilt Bread Maker makes two loaves of bread at once, so you have plenty of bread for your family. In spite of its formidable look with all the buttons, the Welbilt machine is quite easy to use. The instruction manual is very informative and gives you all the information you need about measuring the ingredients and how to use the different settings for different types of bread. It also tells you how to clean the pan and over half the booklet is recipes for different breads.
By using the manual for the Welbilt bread machine, you also learn what not to do. There are step-by-step instructions for white and whole wheat bread, pizza dough, French bread and even cinnamon rolls. Even though the control panel looks complicated once you use the manual to see what each of the buttons is for, you will soon be baking bread like a pro. Of course, you still have to buy flour and yeast, but the machine will mix and knead the dough for you. You can choose the fast mode so that you have home-made bread in about an hour or you can preset it as much as 13 hours in advance.
The center of the control panel has a display window, which shows the menu numbers. Here you can see which mode you selected, what crust color you want and a countdown of the baking time. Sometimes, the little kneading paddle does get embedded in the loaf of bread, but it is only easy to take out. The pan itself has a non-stick coating making it very easy to clean and with two loaves at a time, you won't have to bake before every meal.