Bread Maker Advice.

I've made a lot of bread in a home bread maker for the last 5 years.  I've burned through 2 machines (I'm on my third).  The second cheapest Breville Baker's Oven bread maker has been perfectly good for me.  My second bread maker was the cheapest model of Baker's Oven, and I was never that happy with it.  Here are the steps to success:

Here's a photograph of my standard bread making ingredients:

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Add the following into the breadmaker in order:

1 375 ml cup of water (that's the metal cup)
A slug of oil (1-2tbsp) 3 teaspoons of salt, 6-8 teaspoons of sugar
3 imperial cups of wholemeal flour (that's the clear plastic cup on top of the flour bag) I buy 5 or 10 kilo bags of flour from my organic food shop)
A slug of hulled millet ( 1-2 tbsp) some pumpkin seeds and some sunflower seeds.  Of this everything is optional except the millet which seems to be a really useful bread improver.