I have made soooo much homemade bread ... at point in my life I put food on the table by selling bread ...made 20 loaves every morning using my Kitchen Aid ... back when they were made by Hobart ..now they are Maytag I believe ... anyhoooo....now I have a Black and Decker bread machine and it makes a decent loaf ... if you find a good bread book, there are some good recipes. I personally find the difference in how the bread tastes depends on the quality of yeast ... the bread machine yeast doesn't do it for me. I prefer to mix my yeast (cake is best) in water and add to the machine (you have to adjust the liquid in the recipe). And remember that salt kills yeast so one has to be very careful when putting ingredients into the machine.

LL