The Sunbeam bread machine lets you wake up to the smell of freshly baked bread every morning. All you have to do is put the necessary ingredients of flour and yeast into the bread maker the night before and set it to start baking so that the bread is done to perfection when you wake up. Nothing beats the taste of toast from home-made bread. It seems there is a substance to it that is lacking in store bought sliced bread. And if you have one of those knives with a gauge on the side, you can have perfect even slices for your toaster.
Many people prefer to have the Toastmaster bread maker. This machine has eight different settings and delivers a one pound loaf of bread in far less time than you can make it yourself. You might argue that when you mix and knead the dough by hand, you get 6 or 8 loaves of bread, but just think of the time it takes you to do this. With a bread maker, it only takes a few minutes to get everything ready and the machine does the rest of the work for you. When the bread is baked the way you like it, the machine automatically shuts off.
Enjoy plain white or whole wheat bread for breakfast and crusty French bread for your evening meal. If you like other kinds of bread, such as pumpernickel or banana bread, the machine mixes and bakes these to perfection as well. You can set the machine to have a light, medium or dark crust and there is a large viewing window so you can watch the process taking place. The Toastmaster also has a one-hour warm cycle so that the bread will stay warm for you if you are not quite ready to take it out.
You can also use the Sunbeam or the Toastmaster to make dough for pizza. You just have to use the dough setting on the machine and when all the ingredients are mixed into a ball, the machine will ring to let you know. With the non-stick loaf pan inside, you won't have any difficulty getting the dough out of the machine and all you have to do is wipe it out. Cleaning up from making bread the old-fashioned way was never this easy.