We've burnt out two over the years just from usage. We own two homes and currently have one at each home. Use it often but only use it to form the dough for pizza or breads.
We never do the actual baking in the machine. If you want bread to look like a loaf of bread you should get a loaf pan, put the dough in it and put it in the oven. Very easy to make a nice rye bread dough with a bread machine and then form the dough in the shape that you want and bake on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. There's recipes for every type of bread in the world available for free on the internet. I've even made flatbreads like pita and lavash using dough from the bread maker.
My favorite usage for the break maker is to make pizza dough though. Basically throw 5 ingredients in the machine and a few hours later you can have very nice dough for around 25 cents worth of ingredients.
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