Have we reached the end of the age of the breadmaker?

[the_same_andrew]

Used to be there were many makes and models of countertop breadmaker, sold almost everywhere.  I guess the latest generation of them didn't sell well enough, because there aren't so many, anymore.  Marketers and manufacturers have awakened to the fact that people don't really like having to measure ingredients into a machine every goddamn day, when

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[ironymaiden]

i used to love running the bread machine on a timer and waking to hot fresh bread. there's really no other way to get that without servants.but we've cut down enough on eating bread over the years that we gave away the bread machine and the toaster.

i wonder if the potential bread machine users have shifted into no-knead bread? combine that with interest in various low-carb diets and paleo and it puts a hole in the market. then again, would people who came to homemade bread through the no-knead method appreciate a bread machine? maybe so. takes a lot of planning to make the no-knead.

[handslive]

That bit about automation sure rings bells for me. Used to be a common problem back when I was working on web pages for small businesses with too much money to burn. Knowing what you want the result to look like is not the same as explicit knowledge. How often it turned out there was no tacit knowledge to find either, just a mental movie of how cool it was all going to be later.