Breadmakers are rather strange things. Theyre surprisingly big kitchen appliances with only one use: they bake bread. Now, baking bread isnt really that hard, but breadmakers claim to make it so super-easy that you can eat freshly-baked bread every day for the rest of your life. Much like those machines that make you orange juice every day from fresh oranges, however, the necessity of this is debatable.
To use a breadmaker, all you need to do is add the ingredients of bread (flour, milk, yeast and so on) and turn it on you can even get special bread mix to use if fresh ingredients are too much trouble for you. The machine will make dough from your ingredients and then bake it into a loaf of bread. The bread typically tastes quite good, but wont last very long because of the lack of preservatives.
Where breadmakers really get interesting is not when they are making normal, store-style bread, but when you decide to get creative with them. Because they make bread so quickly, they make it much more convenient to experiment with strange ingredients that might just turn out great. You can make bread with your favourite cheese in it, for example, or chocolate, or some...