Oster 5838 ExpressBake Breadmaker, White

Oster 5838 ExpressBake Breadmaker, White | Get this bread machine

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	Oster 5838 ExpressBake Breadmaker, White Oster Oster, 2004 average customer review:based on 100 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Makes delicious bread

After returning 2 breadman machines within 2 weeks, I purchased the Oster (and it was cheaper). I am very pleased with it. My husband and son like the long loaf style (my old machine was the tall loaf style). The country white bread recipe on the normal bake cycle works perfectly. I have not tried the other cycles (bread in less than an hour just doesn't seem right - and you have to adjust the recipe).

I always remove the bread as soon as it is done, fold it up in a dish towel and let it cool on a wire rack. It turns out beautifully. My husband baked a loaf one day and forgot to get it right away - by the time he remembered, the bread had cooled in the pan. The crust was much thicker and very hard, but the bread still tasted delicious. I also tried my own recipe which worked well once I adjusted for the yeast (for 1.5 pound loaf - no more than 2 tsp of yeast - just a quarter tsp more and it falls). I am very, very pleased for the price. The motor sounds a little weak, but so far has kneaded the dough well (I only bake 1.5 lb loaves). Sometimes a little flour is left in the corners, but it makes no difference in the flavor or constituency of the bread.

A note of caution - make sure that you are following the correct recipe for the type of setting. The recipes are separated according to express-bake and normal bake. The express-bake recipes will not work on the normal cycle, nor will the normal bake recipes work on the express-bake cycle.

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This was the most pleasant cooking surprise of my life. After reading reviews for the last six months, visiting kitchen stores, talking to friends who bake, I narrowed my decision to two items. I was either going to get a Cuisinart stand mixer to knead the dough & then bake the bread in the oven, OR I was going to get a Zojirushi BBCCX20 Home Bakery Supreme Bread Machine. I ended up doing neither because I bought this Oster on a whim for $25.00 from someone who couldn't take it with her when she was moving. I thought I'd try it out for a while to see if I really liked bread machines before investing in a "better" one. My main concern about bread machines was the fact that I like a crusty, chewy crust...the kind you get with homemade artisan bread. Could that be accomplshed with a bread machine?

I took the bread machine home and followed the unbelievably simple instructions for the french bread recipe, choosing 'medium' for the crust color. The buttons on the bread machine were foolproof. You do three things after throwing the ingredients (in the correct order) into the pan:

1. select the type of bread you are making
2. choose the crust color
3. press start

That's IT! The bread came out PERFECTLY. The crust was everything I hoped for - chewy & crusty. The house smelled fabulous with the nice freshly baked bread aroma, the pan was easily wiped clean, and perhaps best of all, it made a horizontal loaf in a nice-looking bread machine that doesn't take up a lot of counter space. Operating the machine was so clear that I didn't have to read the directions (though I DID read them after-the-fact just for fun this morning). The only thing I would do differently would be to try to use a bit less salt (for my health) in the recipe. And next time I'm going to experiment & make some kalamata olive bread. The machine beeps at a certain point in the process to tell you now's the time to add herbs, olives, sun-dried tomatoes, etc.. There is also a timer so you can time the bread to be ready when you come home from work. Having been in a house fire, I'm VERY wary of having anything cooking when I am not there. I'm sure it's safe & everyone uses that feature, but...

So, don't feel like you have to spend a lot on a "better" bread machine. This one works beautifully, is simple to use AND you'll have money left over to buy that other kitchen gadget you've always wanted.

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Love, Love, Love

This has been the BEST purchase of any kitchen appliance I've made in several years. Every loaf of bread I've made has turned out wonderful. I started using just the recipes in the book provided which were all really good. I went to allrecipes.com and found several recipes there and have tried them and they also have worked great. Just make sure you put the ingredients in the same order that the book has you do them. I always use bread flour and you need to get your measurements right. I think both these things are the key to getting a great loaf of bread. This past weekend I used the dough cycle for the first time and made the best dinner rolls ever.
You may have to get a gym membership because the bread is so good, you will want to bake it a lot.

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Best Buy

I have owned one of these (or its predecessor) for many years. After 7 years and hundreds of loaves, the paddle can no longer remain fixed to the pan, and I figured it's time to replace it.

Having read the reviews, may I make one suggestion to make perfect bread every time. Weighing the flour may be one solution but this may be easier. After the initial 10 minutes, take a rubber spatula, and scrape any dry flour from the corners into the dough. You can tell by the consistency of the dough if it is too dry or too wet. If too dry, ad a teaspoon of water at a time. If too wet, ad a finely ground corn flour - a teaspoon at a time.

If you start with very warm water, the cool metal baking pan will cool the water to the correct temperature. Failure to rise can be due to too little sugar, too much salt, or bad yeast. Always ad the yeast last and on top of all the other ingredients.

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A good breadmaker if not for mechanical problems

I got this machine from a friend who got tired of fixing one single type of bread she figured out. I tried about five to ten recipes from the enclosed book, and they all came out at least decent. I've been using the regular yeast, never tried the fast varieties. While the white bread recipes have produced consistently good results, the whole wheat/rye recipes would only rise about halfway producing small dense loafs.

After a few months of baking two or so loafs a week, the rotating mechanism (blade connected to the motor through the hole in baking pan) started leaking. I have devised a temporary fix (took a nail and bend it around the rotating part, and lifted the whole thing a little bit using a washer) -- it worked for some while, but lead to even greater wearing down of the mechanism leading to even greater leaks. Now, by the time I put yeast in that hole I make in the pile of dry ingredients, pretty much all of the liquid is gone! So I am either playing a guessing game trying to figure out how much liquid was lost, or trying to add liquid to the dry mixture -- either is producing weird results. So actually the only reason I came across this page was that I was looking for the parts. Appears that only the blades are easily available; pans and rotors are not. Too bad; the parts are only $10 at most that I am quite willing to spend, but I will probably have to hand it down to somebody else, or just throw it away if I don't find the proper replacement.

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