Review on Oster Expressbake Gluten Free Setting CKSTBR9050 NP by Vashod Reed

This machine (Easter express baking with gluten-free function) can bake good white bread. You must be VERY precise with your measurements. Even a small change in the amount of salt can have a big impact on your bread. I also found it helpful to use a thermometer to make sure your water is warm enough. I'm still trying to find the ideal temperature for liquids. Even with accurate measurements, the recipe will likely need to be adjusted slightly to account for the temperature and humidity in your kitchen. I haven't baked bread in years when I got this, so it took me a while to learn how to do it properly so the bread doesn't fall apart. When done right, this little machine will bake beautifully delicious loaves of white bread. Now we come to the wheat bread. I've been using this for 4 months now and no matter what, I'm not getting whole grain bread. Loaf go with this machine. I recently managed to bake the "summer wheat bread" recipe included in the recipe book. This recipe is made from 50% white flour and 50% whole wheat flour. I found I had to use the white bread setting to get this to work. No matter how careful and precise I was, it always broke during baking when using the wheat bread setting. I haven't been able to get a recipe to work with 100% whole wheat yet. I tried varying the moisture, sugar, salt and yeast. Tried different settings on the machine. It all ends up in a tiny loaf that never rises. After a little research, I heard from a seasoned baker that one of the things that makes it difficult to make 100% whole wheat bread is that other parts of the flour that end up in the white flour anyway (probably the bran) I've got heard, bran or whatever - something else acts like little knives and will cut strands of gluten if kneaded too hard, and without well developed long strands of gluten the dough won't be able to trap the gases given off by the yeast and the dough won't rise. So I think this machine kneads the dough too hard for 100% whole wheat bread to work. I haven't tried the Express Bake feature because I don't have fast rising yeast. I only use active dry yeast. I haven't tried the gluten free mode. As soon as I get wheat bread, I can switch to a different kind.