OTG,
I like to make bread from scratch. But, before I learned how easy it was, I owned a bread machine. I cannot recall, possibly a sunbeam. It would not have been an expensive model. My friend's was very pricey. Both did the same things, took the same time to make, etc. Cheaper is not necessarily bad in a bread machine, unless they have drastically changed in the past few years.
Jennifer
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-Mahatma Gandhi
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