The basic machine is a double slot toaster with its usual function. By lowering one or two narrow bread pans with the correct amounts of flour, yeast and water/milk, lowering the bread machine unit and setting its timer, one starts the automatic mixing, kneading, rising and baking cycle. In less than an hour, each slice is raised from its pan as a tiny band saw slices away the broad, side crusts.

Bake your own slice and bite into fresh-from-the-toaster-and-oven bread just once, and you’ll never go back to store-bought bread.