[bluejeanz]

Does anyone here use a bread machine to mix your doughs? I've been baking bread since I was a teenager and used the old-fashioned method of kneading it myself but since the invention of the bread machine, I found it's so easy to just throw ingredients in for a pizza crust and an hour later it's ready. I don't see any difference in quality from making it by hand either.

I do have two recipes that I actually mix and bake the bread in the machine and they turn out well; a walnut-orange-cranberry yeast bread and a pineapple-coconut yeast bread. But for anything else like pizza dough, dough for Italian or French bread or focaccia, I just let the machine do the work.