Welbilt ABM3800 Review

We have had the Welbilt bread machine for several years.  When my wife first got the machine she used it almost on a daily basis.  However, since then it has been used very infrequently.  In fact it was packed away for several years before I got it out again for her to use.  We have several bread machine books that we use to make bread, rolls and sweets.  One of the features I like best about the machine are the receipes that will allow you to mix and rise the dough in the machine, but, you take the dough out to shape and bake separetely.  Another benefit of the bread the machine is the wonderful smell of baking bread, nothing compares and brings back many childhood memories of my mother baking bread when I was a child.  The feature of the machine that we like the least is the fact that the blade sometimes is very difficult to remove from the bread once it is baked.  Usually the crust on the sides of machine the dough touches are more times than not have a very thick and chewy crust.  I like to bake all kinds of breads and rolls and prefer the old fashioned way of doing this. Measuring, mixing and kneading the dough by hand.  Nothing takes the frustration out like kneading a ball of dough for eight or ten minutes.  My wife likes the machine because she doesn't have to do the kneading and just put the ingredients in the bread machine and forget it.  But, if you have never baked from scratch before it is probably a good way to start, especially if you do not have a lot of time, just let the machine do the work for you.