I'm not sure how much they cost these days but I suspect you'll pay somewhere between £60 and £100 (as I say, mine was a gift from my daughter) but with bread at £1.50 a loaf in the supermarket (for good bread)and home made bread running at less than a third of that even with the power, you can make a case for a breadmaker paying for itself in the first 50 - 100 loaves.
When I used to bake bread by hand I used to mix up half a stone of flour at a time (that's 7lbs weight) in a great big bowl. It made 11 loaves and I'd freeze it for use through the week.
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Date: Aug. 23rd, 2008 03:43 pm (UTC)When I used to bake bread by hand I used to mix up half a stone of flour at a time (that's 7lbs weight) in a great big bowl. It made 11 loaves and I'd freeze it for use through the week.
Having kids put a stop to that kind of mission.