So I thought I’d make another loaf of bread with my new gadget, this time a Scandinavian Light Rye. I happily measured, poured, and placed the ingredients in order in the bread pan and turned it on to the appropriate size and time.

Then I realized I’d skipped a line in the recipe and forgotten the brown sugar. I managed to stop the machine about six minutes into the knead cycle and added its aromatic goodness and restarted the machine. Then the infernal device took on a life of its own. It decided that the addition of those tablespoons pushed the mixture into 2-lb. loaf size rather than the 1 1/2-lb I’d been measuring for, and that because of that it should work for 15 minutes longer than the 2:53 the smaller loaf called for.

I don’t have a clue how this is going to turn out.