An Oster bread machine will be one kitchen appliance that will give you many years of use as you produce fresh home-made bread for your family. You also get a bread machine cook book so that you can make various types of bread, such as French, pumpernickel, sourdough and your regular white and whole wheat. You will also get helpful tips about baking bread, such as soy flour will give you whiter bread than regular flour.
The Oster bread maker has an express bake feature that will give you a perfect loaf of bread in less than an hour. The non-stick loaf pan makes cleaning up a breeze. Making bread the old-fashioned way take a lot longer because you have to wait for the yeast to rise in the warm water and then you have to add in the flour.
If you use Bread and Roll Mix, you don't need any other ingredients, but making bread from scratch means you have to measure the butter, salt and sugar so that the bread will taste just right. Then comes the mixing and kneading, after which you have to wait for the bread to rise. Then you have to work it down again, wait for it to rise and then put in the loaf pans and then wait again. Making bread by hand is a waiting game that you don't have to play when you have a bread maker to do the work for you.
All you have to do is carefully measure the ingredients for the recipe you want to use, put them all into the machine at the same time and wait. However, the waiting is much shorter and you can go about your daily chores. When the bread is baked, the machine will automatically shut off. You can program a bread maker to start mixing at a certain time, so that the fresh home-made bread is ready when you are. Imagine coming home from work to the smell of fresh bread waiting for you. It will give you the feeling that you have just walked into your grandmother's kitchen.
There aren't too many women that will not be thrilled with the gift of one of these kitchen appliances. It is something that even the youngest member of the family can learn to use. You can teach your little ones to bake and not have to worry that they will burn themselves on the stove