They’re also versatile appliances: Beyond baking bread, Hamel said you can use a bread machine to make pizza dough or you can treat it like a “mini-oven” and make soup, cakes and fruit crisps.

Bread machines are great for baking all kinds of bread, of course, but they can also make a bevy of other treats, including bagels, cake, and jam.

We look for a certain number of automatic bread and dough settings on the best bread makers, with extra points for timer and warm settings.

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