Another requiem for another bread machine
Almost exactly seven years ago, I posted my requiem to our bread machine.
We bought this bread machine back around 1998 or so, when I finally realized I don’t have much by way of breadmaking skills. Don is a sandwich guy and loves bread, so if we bought all bread from the store, it would have cost a fortune. Over the subsequent years, this faithful machine made literally thousands of loaves at a cost of probably thirty cents a loaf (ingredients + electricity). Sadly after 20 years, it finally bit the dust.
Fortunately, some years before that machine died, we had found an identical machine at a thrift store for $15 and snatched it up. When my first machine died, we transitioned seamlessly to the second.
Yesterday I started a loaf of bread, partly for Don’s sandwiches and partly for bread stuffing for Thanksgiving. I started the machine and then began working another project, so I wasn’t paying much attention to it.
But after a bit I heard the machine emitting some distressed beeps. And was it kneading? I started paying attention and realized no, it wasn’t kneading. And what was that smell?
The smell was electrical. Plus it was kind of “humming.” I unplugged it right away, then tried replugging it in. The machine started humming again, and conspicuously refused to knead. Well nuts. Another faithful machine bites the dust. I didn’t want to risk an electrical fire, so I unplugged it and took the bucket of bread ingredients out.
But wait, we had yet another identical model on hand. I fetched it from the barn loft, dusted it off, put the bucket with the bread ingredients into it, and voilà: It worked perfectly.
This machine, too, was an inexpensive thrift-store find from several years ago.
Now we’re tasked with throwing away the old machine. Maybe in the vain hope some handy person can fix it, I’ll put it next to the dumpsters with an explanatory note and hope for the best.
Meanwhile, we’ll keep our eyes peeled in thrift stores for yet another Regal Kitchen Pro. They really are excellent machines … although to be fair, probably almost any thrift-store machine will work fine.
Rest in peace, bread machine.
Source: http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/11/another-requiem-for-another-bread.html
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