--- product_id: 300878 title: "Oster Expressbake Breadmaker, 2-lb. Loaf Capacity, 2 lb, White/Ivory" brand: "oster" price: "β‚±23801" currency: PHP in_stock: false reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/300878-oster-expressbake-breadmaker-2-lb-loaf-capacity-2-lb-white store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # 650W Power 2 lb Capacity Expressbake < 1hr Oster Expressbake Breadmaker, 2-lb. Loaf Capacity, 2 lb, White/Ivory **Brand:** oster **Price:** β‚±23801 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Summary > 🍞 Rise to the Occasion with Every Slice! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Oster Expressbake Breadmaker, 2-lb. Loaf Capacity, 2 lb, White/Ivory by oster - **How much does it cost?** β‚±23801 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/300878-oster-expressbake-breadmaker-2-lb-loaf-capacity-2-lb-white) ## Best For - oster enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted oster brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Bake Like a Pro:** Craft artisan-quality bread with 12 unique settings tailored for every craving. - β€’ **Perfect for Families:** Bake larger loaves (up to 2 lbs) to satisfy the whole family’s appetite. - β€’ **Set It and Forget It:** Enjoy the luxury of fresh bread anytime with a 13-hour programmable timer. - β€’ **User-Friendly Design:** Navigate effortlessly with a large LCD display and intuitive button controls. - β€’ **Speed Meets Convenience:** Whip up fresh bread in under an hour with the Expressbake feature. ## Overview The Oster Expressbake Breadmaker is a powerful 650-watt appliance designed for families, featuring a 2-pound loaf capacity, 12 customizable settings, and an express baking option that delivers fresh bread in under an hour. With a user-friendly interface and a programmable timer, this breadmaker makes it easy to enjoy homemade bread anytime. ## Description Wake up to the aroma of freshly baked bread with the Oster Express bake Bread Machine. Designed to make up to a 2 pound family sized loaf, this bread maker comes with its own tested recipes for ultimate perfection. The bread machine features multiple settings that offer ideal baking versatility and a Delay Bake timer that lets you set the baking time up to 13 hours in advance. An Express Bake cycle bakes delicious bread in under an hour. A large LCD display allows you to easily navigate the settings, and a clear window on the top lets you peek inside to see the bread as it bakes. For added convenience, this bread maker comes with a measuring cup, a spoon, and a kneading paddle. The sleek design with White/Ivory finish effortlessly matches any kitchen dΓ©cor, making the Oster Express bake Bread Machine a great housewarming or wedding gifeet Review: Saved money! Saved health! - Bought: March 3, 2013 @ 59.99 Date of this Review: November 12, 2015 Status of this breadmaker: Showing its age but still chugging! I have been relocated by my company (together with my family) here in the US from Singapore. We moved to New Jersey around Nov, 2012 and we have been buying loaves of bread from our nearby supermarket daily @ $2.50 a pop 5 times a week. Over the couple of months we noticed that we are feeling a bit "down" thinking it was just us adjusting to the weather but we were also gaining weight every month. So, trying to be "healthy" we started reading the labels of each food we buy and noticed a LOOOOT of ingredients that looked like from a science fiction/medical drama series (see attached photo). So we thought of making our own bread from scratch but didn't want to spend a lot of time kneading and rising the dough everyday. Enter this bread machine and some research enabled us to save money and in turn saved our health. For the money saving part, we sourced the following ingredients: Walmart: Great Value Flour 25-Pound - $8 (37 servings) Great Value Powdered Milk 4-lbs - $16 (64 servings) Zulka Morena Pure Cane Sugar, 8 lbs - $5 (128 servings) Great Value: Vegetable Oil, 1 Gal - $5 (64 servings) Augason Farms Iodized Salt, 104 oz - $5 (623 servings) desertcart: Bob's Red Mill Gluten Flour Pack of 4 of 22-ounce each - $23 (83 servings) The Ready Store: SAF Premium Yeast 16oz - $7 (48 servings) Note: Per 1 serving denotes 1 loaf of 1.5 lb bread. So per serving of all combined ingredients above costs me $1.012! (Savings: $1.488). So in less than 2 months, I already made back the cost of the bread machine. So after that and 28 months later today - this breadmaker is still baking strong even after roughly 500 loaves of bread (20+/- loaves a month) with a total saving of around $700+. That said, we felt better after a couple of months and lost some weight. Even our dog likes our freshly baked bread - note that she NEVER EVER touched the ones we bought from the store. Not to mention the great sensation of smelling the loaves you bake - it's freshness! And a dab of butter on a freshly cut loaf lifts up your morale even more! The other best thing about making your bread at home - you can go beyond that simple loaf of bread! Add nuts, add eggs, add spices. Turn it into pumpernickel. Turn it into hoagies. Into fresh baguette. Into basically...anything! I bought the "The Artisan Bread Machine" here in desertcart and delved into more creations. We can now make anything the fancy bakeries out there can make WITHOUT the unspeakable ingredients. Pros: * Durable * Can make a variety of loaves with your desired setting * It takes only around 5 minutes to dump in the ingredients then it mixes and bakes * Never failed to make the perfect loaf (only if you put in the correct ingredients in the correct order) Cons: * As it ages (more than 2 years old now), the non-stick coating is fading but that's to be expected * It doesn't do laundry Bottomline: If this breaks - I'm buying it again and hopefully the same quality as before. Worth the money and ROI pays off quickly. Better health knowing you know what goes in your bread > Priceless! ---------------------------------------- Update: 2/1/2017 After almost 4 years - we have to let go of this beloved bread machine of ours. Not because it stopped working, but because we once again have to move to a country of different voltage and would deem impractical to bring this along. So almost after 4 years - it is still working and will hopefully find a new home (donated to the VVA). Definitely, if I ever found the same brand, we're buying this again. This is a final revision of this review - This bread machine has given us wonderful bread (and some bad ones - our fault) and wonderful memories. And thank you for the helpful comments that helped us and others. Hope this would help more people in the future. Review: Makes great bread; I just have to improvise a bit. - Follow the Oster recipe. I did that. Twice. More or less. After reading people's experiences here and elsewhere, I added vital wheat gluten - 7 tsp. for 4-2/3 cups of 100% whole wheat flour. I also added 2 TBS oil because the Oster recipe was inexplicably missing it, though they had oil in their other bread recipes - I think it would have stuck to the pan in the mixing without it. And 1/4 cup of flax and sunflower seeds and oats. It looked dry during kneading, so I added 3 tsp of water, one at a time. The ball looked fine after that. Because my first loaf came out like a doorstop - it didn't rise even to the top of the pan - I followed other advice here and put the pan with the dough in the oven to rise - set the temp at 170 and left the door open. It rose just to the top of the pan. Then I baked it in the machine. Same result as the first loaf. Tastes good enough, but very dense - like I said, the black hole of bread. All my ingredients are fresh, and except for the above-noted changes, I followed the recipe exactly - same amount of flour, brown sugar, yeast, salt, water. Disaster. But I didn't buy this thing just to knead the dough, and then have to put the dough in a bread pan in a regular oven. So at the moment, I don't know what's going wrong. I don't think more gluten and yeast are going to help - more would probably hurt, actually. I used Whole Foods organic whole wheat flour - the recipe didn't specify a certain brand, and I doubt that could make much difference. What I want is a loaf much, much closer to the kind that, say, Dave's Killer Bread makes - whole grain, seeds and stuff, and pretty light and fluffy for whole grain bread. I'll try a few more loaves, and if they keep coming out this way, I'll be returning this thing as non-functioning. UPDATE: 4/6/16 Upgrading to 5 stars. If only because this thing walked itself off the kitchen counter, fell to the floor, the lid came off and skidded across the floor ... and I put it all back together, no plastic broke, and... IT STILL WORKS!!! Helps that the kitchen floor is wood, but still...I mean, that's worth 5 stars all by itself. OK, so that happened. My only quibble is the display - it doesn't light up and the overhead lighting has to be just right to be able to read it. Not that the timer matches what the manual says is supposed to be happening, but to me that's just another one of those irrelevancies, as you'll see if you keep reading. I've just about started to break even on making bread versus buying it. The loaves are getting better and that's because I've started using white whole wheat flour - still whole wheat, just the white variety of wheat instead of the more common red. Makes all the difference. OK, not all - I've had to increase the gluten (maybe a quarter-cup, and yes, I'm lucky gluten and my body understand each other) and yeast. The manual has a recipe that calls for 3 teaspoons of active dry yeast for 100% whole wheat bread but 5 teaspoons fast-rising yeast for Expressbake white bread. So I began using 5 teaspoons of fast-rising yeast in the normal bake 100% whole wheat. After all, fast-rising is the same as bread machine yeast, and this is a bread machine, is it not? Fast-rising needs only one rising, but normal bake has three, so fast-rising yeast + three rises = high-rise 100% whole wheat bread, right? Right. As in, beyond your wildest dreams. Of course, I look at instructions that say bread-making requires precise measurements and I think, "as if" (which is why I flunked algebra - twice - it's a lifestyle thing...) - "precise" means "just a suggestion." So each loaf is like a mystery to me - if it fails or succeeds, I don't know why. Kind of like life, huh? Full of wonder, right? I do things like, oh, set it for whole wheat, let knead for the first 5 minutes, turn it off, do it again, and again, then let it go through the program. I figure whole wheat kneads more needing - er, needs more kneading. Then when finishes its last rise, just before it begins baking, I take the dough out and pull out the kneading blade - the holes it leaves are too big. So I get results like, well, for a while I was getting loaves that rose up to the lid and stuck there - not conducive for browning. I wonder what measurement did that ... actually, I probably should say "measurement," maybe it's something to do with, like, algebra? Plus they were so big that I couldn't get to the handle. So I had to pull the handle up some by force, which took off part of the crust, then decided to just leave the thing in there and set it on bake. It would be nice if you could use my experience as an object lesson, but I have no clue what I did to make the bread do that, so I can't tell you what not to do. Except maybe to not look at measurements as "measurements." Good luck! UPDATE 4/7/16: The photo speaks for itself. Despite my best efforts, this little, much-abused machine turned out a stellar loaf of bread. Light, chewy crust...huge. UPDATE 11/1/16: Got tired of oversized loaves, and the bread tasted too yeasty, so cut back on the yeast to 3 tsp - and that worked. The crust browns nicely when it isn't squashed against the lid. One thing still bothers me: the cycles don't start and stop at the times given in the manual. Most important, the first kneading is supposed to last 5 minutes - it goes for 7 minutes, so that's OK,. But the second kneading is supposed to last 20 minutes - it doesn't; it lasts only 14 minutes. The 2 extra minutes in the first kneading doesn't make up for this shortened time. This is serious - bread depends on the kneading to make the best loaf. And my loaves are pretty dense, even for whole wheat with all kinds of added ingredients. So as I said above, I get the process going, then stop it in the middle of the second kneading and start all over again. Seems to work better. But really - Oster ought to check into this. It's been happening since Day One, and falling off the counter didn't change anything. After the whole wheat cycle is done baking, I still bake it on Bake (#12) for another 15-20 minutes - seems to need it. Otherwise, I'm happy with the machine, glad I have it, and it still warrants 5 stars. UPDATE 5/6/18: OK, don't ever do this: accidentally turn the bread machine off just as it's about to enter its final rise. I kind of brushed the button with my sleeve - no, really! - and it turned itself off. *&^^$$@*(!!! OK, look in the manual - like for power outage. The manual tells you what to do but you have to do it within 6 minutes of the outage: unplug the machine, then plug it back in and hold down the start button for 3 seconds and release, and the machine should start up where it left off. If only. Maybe it's because I turned the thing off - I should have accidentally flipped the circuit breaker. Anyway it didn't work. Now I'm having to let the dough rise in the oven - I warmed it up some, turned it off - no idea what temperature, and no idea what temp the bread machine uses. So I set it to 170, the lowest it can go, let it warm up to maybe 100, turned it off, opened the door - so it's rising nicely. Since I don't know how well it's rising - like, forming giant bubbles, rising too fast? - I can only guess and take it out when it gets to its usual machine rise height, then put it in the machine and use the Bake setting (#12). And see what happens. But really - there should be a way to set the machine to start at any step of the way - how complicated could that be to make? Maybe it's something that's available only on expensive machines? ## Features - 650 watts oster bread maker with upto a 2.0 pound loaf capacity is ideal for larger families - 12 bread settings and 3 crust settings for making a variety of breads, dough, and jams - Expressbake setting bakes bread in under an hour - 13 hour programmable baking timer for fresh bread anytime - Large LCD display and intuitive button controls for easy operation, 40 inch cord length ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B003GXM0EM | | Best Sellers Rank | #608,977 in Kitchen & Dining ( See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining ) #188 in Bread Machines | | Brand Name | Oster | | Capacity | 2 Pounds | | Color | White/Ivory | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (9,161) | | Global Trade Identification Number | 10034264431925 | | Included Components | Breadmaker | | Item Dimensions D x W x H | 14"W x 14"H | | Item Type Name | Oster Expressbake Breadmaker, 2-lb. Loaf Capacity | | Item Weight | 8 Pounds | | Manufacturer | Oster | | Material | Aluminum | | Model Number | CKSTBRTW20 | | Number of Programs | 12 | | Part Number | CKSTBRTW20 | | Product Care Instructions | Hand Wash Only | | UPC | 049500819538 034264431928 | | Voltage | 127 Volts | | Wattage | 650 watts | ## Product Details - **Color:** White/Ivory - **Item Weight:** 8 Pounds - **Material:** Aluminum - **Product Dimensions:** 14"W x 14"H - **Voltage:** 127 Volts ## Images ![Oster Expressbake Breadmaker, 2-lb. Loaf Capacity, 2 lb, White/Ivory - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71WZD0AAaKL.jpg) ![Oster Expressbake Breadmaker, 2-lb. Loaf Capacity, 2 lb, White/Ivory - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/815wZa3QaiL.jpg) ![Oster Expressbake Breadmaker, 2-lb. Loaf Capacity, 2 lb, White/Ivory - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81ZoPZP-S7L.jpg) ![Oster Expressbake Breadmaker, 2-lb. Loaf Capacity, 2 lb, White/Ivory - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81ZJ92lLuFL.jpg) ![Oster Expressbake Breadmaker, 2-lb. Loaf Capacity, 2 lb, White/Ivory - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91em0l3my0L.jpg) ## Questions & Answers **Q: The bread we buy averages $2.19 a loaf. Is this machine going to save me money?** A: I just bought a bread machine in the fall of 2020. I make a 1.5 pound loaf that is much better tasting than store bought bread. It's so good I often just eat a slice of bread as a snack, I don't even put anything on top of it. No butter or jam or anything. The bread I make calls for a tad over 264 grams of milk, 3 tablespoons of butter, 3 tablespoons of honey, 1.5 teaspoons of salt, 360 grams of flour, and 1.5 teaspoons yeast. I buy everything in normal amounts at my local supermarket. The cost per loaf for me is $2.08 including electricity. If I purchased a loaf of bread at my store it is $2.99. But this bread is much better tasting and has better texture. It's even better than the $5 loaves I can get at the whole foods co-op near by. So I save money with my machine. Also there is something very comforting about home made bread. It takes me just under 10 minutes to put all the ingredients in the machine and turn it on. In the hours and then minutes I have a beautiful loaf of home made bread. Our house smelled wonderful from the bread baking and we get to enjoy the best bread I've ever tasted. I have also switched to having some soup and a couple of prices of my homemade bread for my lunches saving me$5 to $13 per day in lunch costs. In my opinion this is the best purchase I've made this year. **Q: Is it easy to clean?** A: OMG it's so easy. I have never washed the actual bread pan, as there is no need, just the paddle at the bottom. Takes 2 min including letting the water get hot at the sink. I love this bread maker, having bread in an hour is boss. **Q: I'm blind and need a machine with actual buttons as opposed to needing to see something on a screen. Will this machine require me to see something?** A: Ha. ha. Some comedians seem to have forgotten that assistive technology is a thing. They should not quit their day jobs. Also, the original questioner just wanted to know if the buttons could be felt - presumably, this person lives with blindness everyday and understands already the concept of requesting a Braille manual or having someone read the manual to them. To the questioner - for reasons too stupid to explain, I've owned six bread machines and my mother has owned three, including at least two Osters (not sure if either was this specific one, though.) Even the ones with buttons under plastic tended to be either slightly indented or bumped and could probably be discerned independently by feel if necessary. (In other words, not a true digital interface, just a flat button covered in plastic.) Worst case, putting dots of school glue or something over them would work perfectly, since the company was nice enough to seal them up tight! ;-) All of the bread makers have emitted a loud beep with every depression of any button. I suspect there's really only one or two companies making these things and companies with recognizable names are branding them. That said, all of the ones we have owned were inexpensive models that retailed under $100 new. **Q: Has anyone actually MADE gluten-free bread with this machine? What settings do you use? How did it turn out?** A: Yes. Turned out great. Use the 1:1 gluten free flour to make the bread on regular bread setting. The gluten free flour works like regular flour. This bread machine is much better than the panasonic and a great value for the price. Also, if you are diabetic you can use Agave Nectar as a sugar subsitute; simply reduce the amount of liquid you put into the receipe. Here is the flour information: http://www.bobsredmill.com/gluten-free-1-to-1-baking-flour.html.The jam setting works great. I use the jam setting to make jams using agave nectar, sugar free pectin (1-2 tbsp), and the fruit. Agave nectar is not needed as the fruit is generally sweet enough. So far I have made blueberry and strawberry jam. Shelf life is 30 days without the boiling process. Tastes delicious! ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Saved money! Saved health! *by M***U on November 13, 2015* Bought: March 3, 2013 @ 59.99 Date of this Review: November 12, 2015 Status of this breadmaker: Showing its age but still chugging! I have been relocated by my company (together with my family) here in the US from Singapore. We moved to New Jersey around Nov, 2012 and we have been buying loaves of bread from our nearby supermarket daily @ $2.50 a pop 5 times a week. Over the couple of months we noticed that we are feeling a bit "down" thinking it was just us adjusting to the weather but we were also gaining weight every month. So, trying to be "healthy" we started reading the labels of each food we buy and noticed a LOOOOT of ingredients that looked like from a science fiction/medical drama series (see attached photo). So we thought of making our own bread from scratch but didn't want to spend a lot of time kneading and rising the dough everyday. Enter this bread machine and some research enabled us to save money and in turn saved our health. For the money saving part, we sourced the following ingredients: Walmart: Great Value Flour 25-Pound - $8 (37 servings) Great Value Powdered Milk 4-lbs - $16 (64 servings) Zulka Morena Pure Cane Sugar, 8 lbs - $5 (128 servings) Great Value: Vegetable Oil, 1 Gal - $5 (64 servings) Augason Farms Iodized Salt, 104 oz - $5 (623 servings) Amazon: Bob's Red Mill Gluten Flour Pack of 4 of 22-ounce each - $23 (83 servings) The Ready Store: SAF Premium Yeast 16oz - $7 (48 servings) Note: Per 1 serving denotes 1 loaf of 1.5 lb bread. So per serving of all combined ingredients above costs me $1.012! (Savings: $1.488). So in less than 2 months, I already made back the cost of the bread machine. So after that and 28 months later today - this breadmaker is still baking strong even after roughly 500 loaves of bread (20+/- loaves a month) with a total saving of around $700+. That said, we felt better after a couple of months and lost some weight. Even our dog likes our freshly baked bread - note that she NEVER EVER touched the ones we bought from the store. Not to mention the great sensation of smelling the loaves you bake - it's freshness! And a dab of butter on a freshly cut loaf lifts up your morale even more! The other best thing about making your bread at home - you can go beyond that simple loaf of bread! Add nuts, add eggs, add spices. Turn it into pumpernickel. Turn it into hoagies. Into fresh baguette. Into basically...anything! I bought the "The Artisan Bread Machine" here in Amazon and delved into more creations. We can now make anything the fancy bakeries out there can make WITHOUT the unspeakable ingredients. Pros: * Durable * Can make a variety of loaves with your desired setting * It takes only around 5 minutes to dump in the ingredients then it mixes and bakes * Never failed to make the perfect loaf (only if you put in the correct ingredients in the correct order) Cons: * As it ages (more than 2 years old now), the non-stick coating is fading but that's to be expected * It doesn't do laundry Bottomline: If this breaks - I'm buying it again and hopefully the same quality as before. Worth the money and ROI pays off quickly. Better health knowing you know what goes in your bread > Priceless! ---------------------------------------- Update: 2/1/2017 After almost 4 years - we have to let go of this beloved bread machine of ours. Not because it stopped working, but because we once again have to move to a country of different voltage and would deem impractical to bring this along. So almost after 4 years - it is still working and will hopefully find a new home (donated to the VVA). Definitely, if I ever found the same brand, we're buying this again. This is a final revision of this review - This bread machine has given us wonderful bread (and some bad ones - our fault) and wonderful memories. And thank you for the helpful comments that helped us and others. Hope this would help more people in the future. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Makes great bread; I just have to improvise a bit. *by W***L on January 25, 2016* Follow the Oster recipe. I did that. Twice. More or less. After reading people's experiences here and elsewhere, I added vital wheat gluten - 7 tsp. for 4-2/3 cups of 100% whole wheat flour. I also added 2 TBS oil because the Oster recipe was inexplicably missing it, though they had oil in their other bread recipes - I think it would have stuck to the pan in the mixing without it. And 1/4 cup of flax and sunflower seeds and oats. It looked dry during kneading, so I added 3 tsp of water, one at a time. The ball looked fine after that. Because my first loaf came out like a doorstop - it didn't rise even to the top of the pan - I followed other advice here and put the pan with the dough in the oven to rise - set the temp at 170 and left the door open. It rose just to the top of the pan. Then I baked it in the machine. Same result as the first loaf. Tastes good enough, but very dense - like I said, the black hole of bread. All my ingredients are fresh, and except for the above-noted changes, I followed the recipe exactly - same amount of flour, brown sugar, yeast, salt, water. Disaster. But I didn't buy this thing just to knead the dough, and then have to put the dough in a bread pan in a regular oven. So at the moment, I don't know what's going wrong. I don't think more gluten and yeast are going to help - more would probably hurt, actually. I used Whole Foods organic whole wheat flour - the recipe didn't specify a certain brand, and I doubt that could make much difference. What I want is a loaf much, much closer to the kind that, say, Dave's Killer Bread makes - whole grain, seeds and stuff, and pretty light and fluffy for whole grain bread. I'll try a few more loaves, and if they keep coming out this way, I'll be returning this thing as non-functioning. UPDATE: 4/6/16 Upgrading to 5 stars. If only because this thing walked itself off the kitchen counter, fell to the floor, the lid came off and skidded across the floor ... and I put it all back together, no plastic broke, and... IT STILL WORKS!!! Helps that the kitchen floor is wood, but still...I mean, that's worth 5 stars all by itself. OK, so that happened. My only quibble is the display - it doesn't light up and the overhead lighting has to be just right to be able to read it. Not that the timer matches what the manual says is supposed to be happening, but to me that's just another one of those irrelevancies, as you'll see if you keep reading. I've just about started to break even on making bread versus buying it. The loaves are getting better and that's because I've started using white whole wheat flour - still whole wheat, just the white variety of wheat instead of the more common red. Makes all the difference. OK, not all - I've had to increase the gluten (maybe a quarter-cup, and yes, I'm lucky gluten and my body understand each other) and yeast. The manual has a recipe that calls for 3 teaspoons of active dry yeast for 100% whole wheat bread but 5 teaspoons fast-rising yeast for Expressbake white bread. So I began using 5 teaspoons of fast-rising yeast in the normal bake 100% whole wheat. After all, fast-rising is the same as bread machine yeast, and this is a bread machine, is it not? Fast-rising needs only one rising, but normal bake has three, so fast-rising yeast + three rises = high-rise 100% whole wheat bread, right? Right. As in, beyond your wildest dreams. Of course, I look at instructions that say bread-making requires precise measurements and I think, "as if" (which is why I flunked algebra - twice - it's a lifestyle thing...) - "precise" means "just a suggestion." So each loaf is like a mystery to me - if it fails or succeeds, I don't know why. Kind of like life, huh? Full of wonder, right? I do things like, oh, set it for whole wheat, let knead for the first 5 minutes, turn it off, do it again, and again, then let it go through the program. I figure whole wheat kneads more needing - er, needs more kneading. Then when finishes its last rise, just before it begins baking, I take the dough out and pull out the kneading blade - the holes it leaves are too big. So I get results like, well, for a while I was getting loaves that rose up to the lid and stuck there - not conducive for browning. I wonder what measurement did that ... actually, I probably should say "measurement," maybe it's something to do with, like, algebra? Plus they were so big that I couldn't get to the handle. So I had to pull the handle up some by force, which took off part of the crust, then decided to just leave the thing in there and set it on bake. It would be nice if you could use my experience as an object lesson, but I have no clue what I did to make the bread do that, so I can't tell you what not to do. Except maybe to not look at measurements as "measurements." Good luck! UPDATE 4/7/16: The photo speaks for itself. Despite my best efforts, this little, much-abused machine turned out a stellar loaf of bread. Light, chewy crust...huge. UPDATE 11/1/16: Got tired of oversized loaves, and the bread tasted too yeasty, so cut back on the yeast to 3 tsp - and that worked. The crust browns nicely when it isn't squashed against the lid. One thing still bothers me: the cycles don't start and stop at the times given in the manual. Most important, the first kneading is supposed to last 5 minutes - it goes for 7 minutes, so that's OK,. But the second kneading is supposed to last 20 minutes - it doesn't; it lasts only 14 minutes. The 2 extra minutes in the first kneading doesn't make up for this shortened time. This is serious - bread depends on the kneading to make the best loaf. And my loaves are pretty dense, even for whole wheat with all kinds of added ingredients. So as I said above, I get the process going, then stop it in the middle of the second kneading and start all over again. Seems to work better. But really - Oster ought to check into this. It's been happening since Day One, and falling off the counter didn't change anything. After the whole wheat cycle is done baking, I still bake it on Bake (#12) for another 15-20 minutes - seems to need it. Otherwise, I'm happy with the machine, glad I have it, and it still warrants 5 stars. UPDATE 5/6/18: OK, don't ever do this: accidentally turn the bread machine off just as it's about to enter its final rise. I kind of brushed the button with my sleeve - no, really! - and it turned itself off. *&^^$$@*(!!! OK, look in the manual - like for power outage. The manual tells you what to do but you have to do it within 6 minutes of the outage: unplug the machine, then plug it back in and hold down the start button for 3 seconds and release, and the machine should start up where it left off. If only. Maybe it's because I turned the thing off - I should have accidentally flipped the circuit breaker. Anyway it didn't work. Now I'm having to let the dough rise in the oven - I warmed it up some, turned it off - no idea what temperature, and no idea what temp the bread machine uses. So I set it to 170, the lowest it can go, let it warm up to maybe 100, turned it off, opened the door - so it's rising nicely. Since I don't know how well it's rising - like, forming giant bubbles, rising too fast? - I can only guess and take it out when it gets to its usual machine rise height, then put it in the machine and use the Bake setting (#12). And see what happens. But really - there should be a way to set the machine to start at any step of the way - how complicated could that be to make? Maybe it's something that's available only on expensive machines? ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review *by A***R on July 3, 2017* good stuff ## Frequently Bought Together - Oster Expressbake Breadmaker, 2-lb. 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