Apparatus for mixing and baking of bread

Abstract

A breadmaking method and apparatus particularly adapted for household use. A combined trough and baking-pan unit is removably mounted on a lift table arranged in the oven and, when raised, is automatically covered by a downwardly spring-biased closure member and receives a measured amount of water as allowed to fall down through the bottom port of a water tank provided above and through holes formed in the closure member. Also provided are agitator means which are operable to act upon the mixture in the combined trough and baking pan unit raised. For fermentation and degassing of the dough thus formed in the unit, the lift table is lowered to its bottom position and held there for an appropriate length of time and thereafter the oven temperature is raised to a suitable level. The oven heater can also serve to heat the water held in the tank preliminarily to an optimum temperature and thus enables any inexperienced person to make palatable bread at all seasons independently of the external atmospheric temperature with ease.

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