Have you consider getting a stand mixer instead of a bread machine?
My dad was showing me how to make bread from scratch today and we used a stand mixer (Kitchenaid). It took a few minutes to knead the dough using the mixer (using, of course, the dough hook). Then we put the dough in a bowl and let it rise for an hour, kneaded it for a few minutes by hand (very easy to do once you get the hang of it), and let it rise again. Then we put it in the oven and waited for it to bake.
A stand mixer will be more expensive than a bread machine, but I think it will be more useful than a bread machine. You can use a stand mixer for so many things that you can't use a bread machine for. Target, Walmart, Amazon.com, Costco, and probably other stores I can't think of, sell stand mixers for a decent price. You can even check out eBay or thrift stores or estate sales for stand mixers. Personally, I would rather wait a little bit longer and buy a good stand mixer than a bread machine because a mixer is more versatile, IMO.
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