Title: Idiotic initial rest!
Product review: This bread machine works ok, but adds 1-2 HOURS to the cycle with an "initial rest". We do a final rise and cook in a pan. We've been making bread with an old machine for years. You warm cold ingredients to room temp with warm water or the microwave. That takes under 5 minutes. Apparently people are too lazy to do this anymore, so the machine does it. It takes the machine 1-2 hours to do this. How ridiculous. If the shipping wasn't so bad, I'd send it back. I do gather that this rest is fairly common with newer machines, so another brand may not help. Could they at least add a setting to bypass this amazing waste of time? My old machine takes 1 hour 50 minutes to produce dough. This machine takes 3 hours 15 minutes, with no improvement in quality. If you are looking for a bread machine, ask specifically about this stupid rest crap.
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