Quick breadmaker question

[Bucketsofbloodydinosaurs]

Have borrowed neighbour's machine but with no instructions. Put ingredients in and it's mixing. How does it prove/rise? Do I have to take it out of the bucket and put in the chamber or does it prove in the bucket?
Limited instructions on front seem very misleading - can't believe you bake it in the bucket and get a hole in the base of your loaf!

Put all ingredients in the bucket. Put the bucket in the chamber. Switch on the machine. It mixes, kneads, proves, rises & bakes it all in about 3 hours (or it should)

I have started using my breadmaker again.

YOu leave it in there and it does it all.

I am afreaid that you will have a hole in the bottom of your load whrer the kneading pin has been.

what breadmaker is it?
Ours you just bung it all in and it cooks it, there is no hole in the loaf really, more like a cut

Oops I'd better shut the lid then!
It's a Breville Breadmaster btw.
I tried to do a wholemeal loaf and it didn't do anything so I've got it going on a basic white programme because that started mixing straightaway. Is there that big a difference? Will it be poisonous if I've used wholemeal flour?

It might not rise as much if you've used the proportions for a white loaf - wholemeal recipes usually use more yeast. The programme is usually longer too because it takes longer to prove, and my breadmaker starts with a resting phase on some programmes, including wholemeal.
There is a hole in the bottom of the loaf, but it's not that big!

Aaah, a resting phase before it mixes, that might explain it. What's that all about then?

I'm not sure, actually. It explains it somewhere in my recipe book and it's possibly something to do with getting things to room temperature, but anyway the longer cycle is I think because the gluten in the wholewheat needs longer to break down.

Thanks guys. It's finished now, looks and sounds done, will give you a report in the morning and make another with the correct setting to compare.

Bucketsofbloodydinosaurs
You could look on the net for the instructions. Just put the make and model in your search engine and might find a site that does it. I have done it for my old moby and vcr. I lost the books to both but found them both on the net.

HTH. You get all sorts of breads in the instructions booklet.