I often use my bread machine to mix the dough for bread, but I don't like the shape it bakes into, and often it's a coarser texture than if I take the dough out, knead it a little more and put it in a regular bread pan to rise again and then bake in the oven. I still get a homemade loaf and not the mess of the original mixing. If I'm making more than one loaf of the same kind, I do it all by hand. Last weekend though I made 2 different loaves and a batch of sandwich rolls, and used the bread machine to mix the dough for all of them.