We used to have a bread machine. We actually used it all of the time. We were remodeling our kitchen, and I needed to pull everything off of the countertops for the work. I put our bread machine in our oven. The oven wasn't used much since it was so ancient. Well. . . I needed to preheat the oven, turned it on, the house started smelling of melting plastic. My husband grabbed the bread machine with pot holders and threw it out into the snow. (We were in Pittsburgh at the time). We haven't gotten one since.