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A bread machine or breadmaker is a home appliance for baking bread. It consists of a bread pan with a paddle mounted in the centre, in a small special-purpose oven, with a control panel. While most bread machines have different cycles for different kinds of dough (including straight white bread, whole grain, European-style (sometimes labeled "French"), and dough-only for [[pizza dough]] and shaped loaves baked in the oven), many also have a timer to allow the bread machine to activate without operator attendance, and some high-end models allow the user to program a custom cycle.

I read your note about your faulty Panasonic where the bread didn't rise. I had a similar problem with another bread maker because the lid didn't close properly. It was something wrong with the sealing around the lid.

Regards/Olle, Sweden   

===Check the yeast you are using===

Not all tins and packets of yeast are suitable for a breadmaker.  For instance the very common Allinson's Dried Active Yeast is not suitable for breadmakers unless it is [[How to activate Allinsons Dried Active Yeast|activated first]].  See [[Allinsons Dried Active Yeast is not suitable for breadmakers|here for a full explanation]].

4 hours later, perfectly baked bread.  It is as simple as that!

===Panasonic SD-ZB2502 bread maker, dough too wet===

I have been experimenting with all of our [[breadmaker recipes]] recently, just to check they still worked perfectly with the new model breadmaker.  Being lazy, I left the rye dough paddle in the bread maker when making normal loaves and discovered that this resulted in a very wet dough mix.  I'm not sure what the technical reason for this would be, but I would guess that the dough gets over-mixed because of the slots and this dramatically alters its properties. The dough (and bread mix) was as though I had added another 20 ml water extra.  In short: '''don't use the rye paddle for normal loaves!

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