Bread Machines, or Dr. Atkins is turning over in his grave

For as long as I've known him @cuppacafe has enjoyed baking bread, pizza dough, all manner of yeasty things. (He used to make me pizza when we were dating. *g*) And all without any sort of measuring of ingredients or recipe usage. He just tosses stuff by ratios and it all turns out good. A month or so ago he got a bug to get a bread machine. Remember when those things cost a fortune? No longer.

$50 later we're home from WalMart with the one and only Sunbeam model they had in stock. The first l...