page_title: Bread machine
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bread machine / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Bread_Maker(Funai) at MASA (talk)'s HOME 日本語: ホームベーカリー（船井電機株式会社「らくらくパンだ」。1987年に発売された当時は、世界でも珍しい、家庭用の食パン製造メーカーとして知られていた。なお現在は会社の経営方針転換により製造中止。2009年9月MASA (talk)自宅にて撮影）
context_page_description: A bread making machine or bread maker is a home appliance for turning raw ingredients into baked bread. It consists of a bread pan, at the bottom of which are one or more built-in paddles, mounted in the center of a small special-purpose oven. This small oven is usually controlled by a simple built-in computer using settings input via a control panel. Most bread machines have different cycles for different kinds of dough—including white bread, whole grain, European-style, and dough-only. Many also have a timer to allow the bread machine to activate without operator attendance, and some high-end models allow the user to program a custom cycle.
context_section_description: The first breadmaker was released in Japan in 1986 by the Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (now Panasonic) based on a year of research by project engineers and software developer Ikuko Tanaka who trained with the head baker at Osaka International Hotel to learn how to optimally knead bread, and involved adding special ribs inside the machine.
  The Funai Electric company's machines added a fan to cool the bread after baking, which allowed for full unattended operation, and so claims to have produced the world's first full-fledged entirely automatic bread-making machine on the market, sold as the Raku Raku Pan Da in Japan in 1987 and sold in the US as the Dak Auto Bakery model FAB-100-1.
  A decade later they had become popular in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States. While not viable for commercial use due to the fixed loaf shape and the limited duty cycle, bread machines are very suitable for home use, producing their best results when dealing with kneaded doughs.
caption: Raku Raku Pan Da the "World's first automatic bread-making machine"
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