Bread is absolutely terrible for the human body. You literally have to get undigestible seeds, pulverize them, mix it with water, and put it in the oven to make it somewhat food-like. Terrible for the body and teeth. Should only ever be eaten in periods of starvation.
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Bread has been a staple of diets since the dawn of history in everywhere that has had access to wheat. Needing to be processed to be consumed doesn't mean much, are eggs bad because they have to be cooked and the entire shell discarded just to make it "somewhat food like"? Bread is only bad for your teeth if there's fucking stone dust in your dough.
Best to avoid bread imo,but if you must you can get it down to 5-7 ingredients instead of 20-30 in the store bought.
Number of ingredients doesn't really matter, it only matters what the ingredients are and in many cases more is better. lets look at regular wheat flours to start, given the options of pure white flour(wheat endosperm), enriched white flour(wheat endosperm + added minerals), or wholewheat flour(wheat endosperm + bran and germ) according to the logic of "more is bad" the pure would be the best but it's objectively the most nutritionally deficient.
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I've never been a fan of bread machines TBH, you don't really have any control of steam and humidity which is needed to control crust development, the kneading tool leaves an unappealing hole at the bottom of the loaf, and they're only really capable of making square loaves unless you just want to use it as a mixer, at which point you might as well just make the dough by hand, and they can be a bit awkward to clean.
How long were you cold fermenting for? The lower tempetures will slow down the process and change the way the dough handles, it might be that you just weren't giving it enough time or you aren't preshaping and doing a final proof.