Starting from scratch, the process can be long or short, and it is really hard to say whether it will give up halfway. A toaster or a small oven? Several aspects can be considered:

1. Do you need fresh bread in the morning?

It usually takes about 4 hours to make handmade bread. For example, if you eat toast before 9:00 am, you must get up before 5:00 am to prepare everything.

This can only be solved by buying a bread machine, because it will automatically set the time to make bread. As long as you add flour, sugar, salt, yeast, water, etc. in advance, you can sleep or do other things.

2. Do you want to make different kinds of bread?

If you use a small oven to make bread, you can make bread in various shapes, or you can make more complicated bread, such as croissants, bonzi buns and pineapple buns.

And the toaster can only bake bread.

Do you want to learn how to make bread by hand?

If you want to learn the details of kneading, fermenting, dividing, shaping and baking, you must go to a small oven. Because toasters automate all these processes.

4. Experience sharing

I began to learn to make bread three years ago. Buy a 32-liter oven at first, read books and watch videos. The most time spent is rubbing flour.

In the second year, I bought a dough mixer, and the success rate of milling gradually improved.

Although I make bread once or twice a week, I always do it in the afternoon. After the bread cooled, I put it in the refrigerator to freeze. When you need to eat, put some water in the rice cooker and steam it a little.

In short, bread can meet the actual needs without long-term study (as long as the material ratio is accurate, the success rate is high). Making bread in the oven is about the details of the process. But the actual effect is not necessarily good, for example, the baked bread is not delicious, or it takes too long to affect other jobs.

5. The usage of small oven+toaster is probably the most flexible.

Besides bread, the oven can also roast chicken, sweet potato and so on.

The dough kneading function of bread machine can replace a dough kneading machine, which can save the difficult stage of learning to knead dough by hand.

Take out the dough kneaded by the bread machine, shape, divide, ferment, and then bake in a small oven. Of course, toast can also be baked all the way with a toaster.

6. How to decide

? Buy a bread machine based on eating bread (not learning to make bread).

? If you want to learn how to make bread, buy a small oven.

? When you master the basic technology, you can buy it together.