Nice thing about bread machines is that you can use them as a very inexpensive small dough mixer. The other alternative is a really big, super-expensive table mixer that can handle a dough hook.

Toss the ingredients in the bread machine, set it for dough, and come back in an hour for perfect dough ready to put in a loaf pan, spread on a pizza pan, wrap around cocktail sausages, etc.

Or just let the machine bake it, too. Only hassle is that the dough hook ends up baked into the bottom of the loaf, and the loaves have a funny shape. But once you figure out how dry your bread flour is, and how active your yeast is, you really can have perfect fresh hot bread every day for just a couple of minutes to measure out the ingredients.