This bread maker is a great basic model. You can make white loaves of different sizes, you can make a wonderful fruit bread that has raisins and cherries in it. You can use it to make jams and preserves. It has a dough setting for if you want to make rolls, French sticks and pizza bases where it will mix the dough and let it rise then you take it out of the machine and make whatever you want then cook it in the oven. It has a beeper that goes off when it is time to add any extra ingredients so you do not forget. The only fault with this model is that the paddle always, and I do mean always, gets stuck in the bread so when you take the bread out of the machine you have to make a big hole in it to get the paddle out. It does make nice bread and it is far more economical to use a bread maker nowadays than to buy bread. I would recommend this to anyone looking to purchase their first bread maker.