The bread maker sitting on the counter.
I’ve never owned a breakmaker before. This one was given to me.
It comes with an instruction/recipe book, a measuring cup, a measuring spoon, a kneading blade, and a small metal hook for extracting the dough hook from your baked bread if it’s stuck.
The measuring cup is really small and the measuring spoon is pretty flimsy but you probably have your own anyway. 
All the recipes in the book are fairly straight forward so I just picked one so I could give it a whirl. I chose the “Honey Wheat” recipe. I put in all the ingredients in the order listed and set up the program and pushed the start button.
It was working pretty good for a few minutes then I noticed its blue indicator light was off. I thought it was part of the process so I just ignored it. I checked the manual again and realized that the display should be on. When I opened the lid and closed it the machine would run for a few seconds then cut off again. I finally realized that I had to hold the lid down ( and quite tightly ) in order for the machine to keep running. I didn’t want to stand there and hold it down for two hours of course so I tried setting a 5lb bag of flour on top. Not heavy enough. I moved up to a box of firewood and that did the trick.
So how’s the bread? It was great! I assumed because of the trouble I had getting the machine going with all the stopping and starting that the bread wouldn’t turn out right but it rose up and baked beautifully and it was very good.
Tonight I made my pizza dough recipe in the bread maker. I always make the dough by hand even though it’s actually meant for a bread machine. The dough turned out really good. I can’t tell that the bread machine made a difference in the dough. It is definitely easier though since you just dump in the ingredients and turn it on.
Pizza dough in the bread maker
One thing I did notice on both the bread and the pizza dough is that in the intial kneading stage there are some ingredients that get stuck in the corners of the bread machine hopper and you have to use a spoon to push them into the main dough ball. The kneading hook is fairly small and right in the center of the hopper so it’s easy to push the ingredients from the corners.
The bread maker does produce really good results but with the lid problem I will probably return it to Walmart so I have one that works correctly.
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