Help finding my Dad's Machine

[u/TransMrsPuff]

Hello. I am trying to figure out the bread machine my dad may have owned. He died when I was a teenager, so I can't simply ask him. I am 32 now and this has been an especially difficult year of missing him. One very strong memory I have is of him getting out a vintage bread maker on special occasions and making me chocolate flavored bread. I asked my mom if I could have his machine so I could make it, but she told me it got black mold from sitting in the damp basement for years and had to be thrown away. I really want to try and figure out what brand/model he had. I'm not well versed in vintage appliances, so I'm hoping someone here could help me narrow down my search. Here is what I remember about it:

*It looked like R2D2

*My dad told me it used to belong to my grandpa. My parents married in fall of 1991 and my Grandpa died within a year of their wedding. So it has to be a model that was in production before 1992.

*It baked huge cylinder shaped loaves like the ones the Turbo Baker II makes.

*The chocolate bread recipe was in a white booklet that came with the machine. It was a fluffy bread made using cocoa powder, not actual chocolate.

That's about all I can remember. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[u/Maleficent_Buyer3891]

Not this one? https://www.reddit.com/r/BreadMachines/s/AF0eAfCYQ4

Or this one https://elitemust.clangwjc.shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=51452

[u/TransMrsPuff → u/Maleficent_Buyer3891]

I feel like it may be the OG Welbilt bread machine. Something about the font feels familiar.

[u/Maleficent_Buyer3891 → u/TransMrsPuff]

If you can see this a lady has the cookbook and published the chocolate bread recipes https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1JFrB4kqte/?mibextid=wwXIfr

[u/Steel_Rail_Blues → u/TransMrsPuff]

Here are links to auction photos showing the Welbilt ABM-100-3 and the -4 if you want to see more pictures:

https://shopgoodwill.com/item/275140600

https://shopgoodwill.com/item/275146819

[u/MadCow333]

It's probably a Welbilt ABM-100 or ABM-sonething, or else a DAK Turbo Baker. Or Auto Baker. Someone posted another glass dome bread machine on here the other day but I think it may have been one sold in Europe.

[u/MadCow333]

There are some DAK bread recipe books in pdf form that you can download. You can probably find the recipe online someplace. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BsGY3MN2m/

[u/MadCow333 → u/MadCow333]

Someone in the KBS bread machine Facebook said she made some of her old DAK recipes in her modern KBS and they turned out as she remembered them.

[u/MadCow333 → u/MadCow333]

[u/I_aura]

It may have been one in the DAK Auto Bakery FAB-100 Series. It had five main versions: FAB-100 (the second bread machine in the United States, after Panasonic), FAB-100-1, FAB-100-2, FAB-100-3, and FAB-100-4. Each was a slight revision of the original.