Of course you can use a regular oven but the bread machine makes it so easy that we bake a loaf couple times a week. FYI bread machines do it all: dump and bake style. They knead the dough and such. The machine can also make pizza dough or dough for burger buns, dinner rolls, etc. to bake in the oven. In terms of GF baking it can be pretty tricky and the Zojirushi in particular has a GF setting that delivers great results. Great value for our family.

Our household recently picked up a Zojirushi bread machine. We must eat gluten free for medical reasons and GF bread from the supermarket is very expensive around $9 for a mini loaf of bread that crumbles and molds. We are finding it very cost effective to make our own breads.

This is a good place to start if you’re already using the computer for several tasks.

https://automatetheboringstuff.com

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It has a laptop style fan for the cpu. I’ve never noticed any noise but I have it off in a corner and near some noisy af parakeets so it’s silent to me.

I am running my home server on a Dell 3050 from shopgoodwill.com and it was ~$40 without hard drives. It has room for an m2 drive and SSD so I have Ubuntu/Docker on the m2 and all my data on an SSD.

Try sub.rehab