rivkadr - I know this doesn't answer your question, but if you did a search over at the cooking forum of this site you would find that many (most?) avid bread bakers there use their bread machines strictly in the dough cycle, and then bake free form or in loaf pans in the oven. This will give you a more traditional shape. While this seems to kind of defeat the purpose of the bread machine, they claim the machine kneads best but the oven bakes best. I recently spent about $200 on a Zoji, never expecting to bake in it. (I haven't done anything in it but that's another story, LOL.) Good luck.

Would a toaster oven handle the large slices of bread better?

A Dualit can hold a pretty large slice.

You should just use an oven. Never heard of a deep toaster.

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