I bought a random one at the thrift store a few months ago, it’s some no name brand. My only requirement was finding one that didn’t have any scratches on the Teflon nonstick coating on the pan.

It has been amazing, it takes literally 5mins to measure and throw the ingredients in there and push start. Took a little while to fine tune the recipe. It’s nothing like baking bread but I completely stopped buying bread after getting the machine. Now I can still bake when ever i want, but its an easy way to make sure I always have bread around.

I read on r/BreadMachines that the brand really doesn’t matter, just buy one for 20usd or less and get started. So far it seems to be true for me.

Thanks for the review. Might give it a try.

Yeah that HAT looks pretty sweet, haven’t found a place to buy it though.

Power supply of those 3.5" discs will be the main problem, as you can’t do that over USB.

Yeah I would have to come up with some other way to power the drives, the OWC enclosure has a power supply, but not sure I could harvest what I need. I’m going to have to open it up and see how useful it might be.

Another thought is this m.2 to sata adapter that I could put in the NUC5. I would still have to figure out power though.

edit: link to adapter https://www.ebay.com/itm/285219307946

thanks, yeah I’ve been looking into the ROCK Pi Dual/Quad SATA HAT but it doesn’t seem super available in the US. I’d also have to buy a raspberry pi. Could be worth it though