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Agreed!

Just barely, @ElsieD.

Curious, @JoNorvelleWalker. Perhaps their engineers fixed it? I find the bread machine makes a perfect loaf, nearly every time. Operator error is no doubt responsible for those few anomalies (of mine).

An aside perhaps @JeanneCake . At the grocery store, instant yeast is couple dollars for a little foil packet. You can buy a little jar of 3 or 4 ounces for $12. Or you can buy a pound from King Arthur for $10. One pound lasts me a year and I keep it in the freezer in one of these.

Sent. Originally written as notes to myself. Let me know if it's not clear and I'll modify it a little. 😜

I agree with Linda! I have a Zo model BB-PAC 20 which makes a 2 lb loaf of bread. Homemade bread is incredibly tasty, so don't worry about making a large loaf. I have a contractor who promises to come and work for me again because he still remembers that fresh bread I fed him a couple years ago! My DH doesn't really like bread, and generally eats only one sandwich out of the loaf. I eat the bread fresh for 2-3 days, then toast it. Since it has no preservatives, it will go blue in about 6-7 days. Note that one can make a small loaf of bread in a 2 lb machine. I would only buy a 1 lb machine if in a very small apartment, ha ha. Mine was purchased 10 or 12 years ago, so there are upgrades to the type of flour choices on the menu. Check Zojirushi's site here. I still have stuck on paddles. If my machine broke, I would buy another Zojirushi. Having bad hands, I use my bread machine to make every bread loaf (regardless of what the recipe says), as well as pizza dough and pasta. An added bonus might be to include a book on what to do with the bread, like Every Last Crumb: From fresh loaf to final crust, recipes to make the most of your bread by James Ramsden (eG-friendly Amazon.com link). I would be happy to send you my very favourite bread recipe which is Bread Machine Pain de Mie (modified from Linda West Eckhardt & Diana Collingwood Butts). Also I have a superb pizza dough recipe (from Eckhardt & Butts, also modified by Pete-zza from https://www.pizzamaking.com ) which makes 2 balls which age in the fridge from 3 days to 10.

@Laurentius, I think they have moved to, or hoping to move to induction. i never saw cooking pans in their dishwasher (some years ago). (Do old dogs develop new tricks?) Wirecutter also says that clad cookware makes a whining noise on induction. (I have All Clad cookware which doesn't make a whining noise, but I'm not on induction 😜) TIA.

Tthe Wirecutter (NYT) review website is negative about 5 ply cookware, which they say is slow to heat up. Not sure how important that is? (Made In is 5 ply). @weinoo ? I don't think they would accept a wok in place of a frying pan, @JoNorvelleWalker.

Not sure about price. All pans are handwashed, yes? Somewhere between 10 and 12 inches.

@Katie Meadow, sounds like a blast. Could you please tell me about the chestnut bread stuffing? (Can you tell I have a gift of chestnuts to use? 🙃)

Sounds lovely. Could you give a recipe for that chestnut dressing?

I store some flours and my yeast in the freezer. I add a 20 minute timer on top of the "Rest" period of my bread machine (about 20 minutes).

Gift recipient is getting older, so cast iron is too darn heavy. Suggestions?

Anova Precision Oven 2.0. Water is on left Menu is on right. Has a camera to recognize food. Bottom of oven has a visible element Sadly I don't see a self-cleaning option. 🥵😡 Edited to add: Powered by AI $1,199. Ships on Dec 6th

@liuzhou, at least you remembered to put the jug under the drip spout!

Charming, @Shel_B !

@gulfporter, that does look tasty. Could you please tell us the approx. recipe?

Seems so limiting to just have one favourite spice. How about 5? 😎

@Smithy, why do you open the sandwich after it has been in the press to add sauerkraut and lettuce? I'm thinking that the panini cookbook I got from the library had the cook assemble the sandwich in toto before grilling.

That, @Shel_B, is what my mother called Bubble and Squeak!

Does garlic count as a spice?

I have a lot of trouble trying to wash out plastic bags. They're slimy and greasy, yuck. So the reusable silicone bags sit in the closet . . . 😎

Do you mean "might taste LESS interesting", @rotuts ?

When does miso expire? There's hardly any gone out of the container; sometime in the summer I put some on eggplant, tasted okay; but it's really old.

@Shel_B, so sorry.