paddle is stuck in the breadmaker

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The paddle is stuck in the breadmaker. I can't get it too shift at all - anyone got any ideas? I've tried soaking it. I've theaded a t towel under and yanking it. i've tried pleading and I've tried swearing - am now out of ideas. Please help as I can't go back to shop bought.

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• Have you tried soaking it in oil - cooking variety preferably? Or even washing up liquid? Sometimes, pulling it really hard, if it's not being pulled straight, may make things worse if you slightly bend the spindle. I'd go for the cooking oil and instead of pulling hard, try wobbling it to and fro whilst GENTLY pulling it off.
  (I hope no-one reads this post out of context )
• So be gentle, no tugging and use plenty oil...................I'll give it a go. Thanks.
• On mine, which regularly sticks I soak for ten minutes with warm soapy water. Then I ease a teaspoon handle under the blade and then gently lever it up.
  In fact - Just like this
• I would definitely wiggle it about a bit. It certainly helped with mine (before it died - I haven't got a replacement yet..)
• when mine got stuck last week I stuck some bicarb and vinegar in there - it fizzed off - mind you it's stuck again so why I bothered - I've no idea!!
• If it's like mine be grateful if mines not firmly stuck on it ends up firmly stuck in the loaf of bread! But rest assured the minute you try to demonstrate how firmly it is stuck to somebody it will come off no problem at all
• Yep mine always gets stuck too. One evening I got so fed up with trying to prise it off that I just left it in the washing up bowl full up with water and washing up liquid. Next morning it came off like a dream and now that's all I have to do, leave it overnight.
• The instructions for mine say to put a small amount of cooking oil in the paddle hole before putting on the spindle every time it is used. I use one of those pump sprays and just spray a little inside. My paddle has never stuck and I presume this is why.
• I have the opposite problem... I keep forgetting to attach mine.
  What comes out 3 hours later is not a pretty site.
• I've actually written into the top of every recipe in my book:-
  First fit the blade !!!
• Tut tut.
  Sorry, couldn't resist it. So, does your new one have instructions about freeing stuck paddles? I take it you've read them this time?
• My "new" breadmaker was given to me by MIL, who couldn't get on with it. Its the same make as the old one, but nowhere near as good. The crust is always too hard, although I use the option for light crust. The actual tin is much thinner than the earlier model which I had. So I hardly use the thing, except for mixing dough & making pizzas.
  In fact, thinking about the whereabouts of the paddle, I have just remembered where it is.....
  last time I used it, it fell under the oven & it is still there
• I have no advice to add, but I think I need my eyes tested - I thought you'd said the POODLE is stuck in the breadmaker!!! :confused:
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• If your poodle is stuck in the breadmaker then you're gonna need more than a squirt of washing up liquid and a spoon to get it out.
• Well, it's still there but I now have a spoon that looks like Uri Gellers been round. Has anyone left it and lived to tell the tale?
• Ugh! OK... did you use soapy water? Did you have the spoon as close to the shaft as possible to get the best leverage?
  Tip number forty nine - if you put boiling water in adn add a few drops of washing up liquid the blade will expand more than the shaft will. Not by much but it will give the soapy water that much better a chance to get in at the bread baked in there.
  Using rubber gloves and being careful about testing for the hottest water you can stand for a short time without burning yourself - try the spoon again. Put no more than a couple of cms underneath and make sure it sits close to the shaft - that'll give you at least a six to one advantage.
  HTH