The bread machine or bread makers are the electronic appliances, which are used for helping people in baking bread. These machines have bread pan and a paddle in them. This paddle is located in the centre of small oven with a control panel. Many bread machines have timer system to permit the automatic operation. Many other high-tech inventions allow these machines to have a custom style program. These programs allow the bread buff and baker to bake different types of bread with different types of cycles.

The horizontal bread machine looks like a normal loaf-baking pan. It is easy to use, it can monitor the bread loaf, and when it is baked completely it alerts the baker about it. The loaf baked in it looks like as the market loaf. A horizontal machine bakes the loaf just as the master baker. The master baker makes a top crust on overall length of the loaf. In a vertical bread maker, the bottom of the pan is at one end of the bread and the top crust is formed on the other end of the bread.

Bread makers were introduced in the market in 18th century and since then, they have passed under many changes. The traditional bread makers had a tall square shaped pan, which produces the odd shaped loaves. However, today's machine has a rectangular pan, which makes a loaf similar to the traditional bread maker loaf. Bread makers facilitate to bake bread without hanging around the baking machine moreover it provides great convenience.

Some of the famous horizontal bread machines of market are Zojirushi BBCC-X20 Home Bakery Supreme bread maker, Panasonic SD-YD250 bread maker, Bread man TR875 bread maker, Oster 5838 Express Bake bread maker, Bread man TR2500BC bread maker, Sunbeam 5891 bread maker etc. and many other machines are used for bread making. The top three bread machines are Zojirushi BBCC-X20, Panasonic SD- YD250 and Sunbeam 5891.

All bread machine whether it is horizontal bread machine or vertical, have a paddle in it. This paddle kneads the dough. The bread bakes around the paddle and this leaves a paddle hole in the bread. Some horizontal bread makers have two paddles to ensure that the dough for bread is kneaded evenly. This type of machines leaves two paddle holes in the bread. Vertical bread maker is different from the horizontal bread maker as vertical bread maker has only one paddle to knead the loaf and thus produces the bread with one paddle hole. In this type of machine, the loaf is kneaded evenly because the dough keeps falling down onto the paddle during kneading.

Taste wise, it is hard to tell difference between the bread made by two different types of bread maker. Therefore, people choose the model according to the size of machine, number of paddles and most importantly its price. One can also buy horizontal bread machine, which provides affordability, maximum loaf capacity, fast speed, compactness etc. They are easy to clean and many other features are also added for the extra advantages.