How hard, very easy. I've a bread maker and you take the bowl and add the ingredients, namely water, oil, sugar, salt, flour etc etc. My bread maker came with recipes for lots of different styles. I now make bread every other day and takes 10 minutes. Of course it then takes 3 hours to bake.
Is...
Bake our own to save money. Prior to that it was Aldi 85p brown bread.
To answer the question how much cheaper is it?
A small loaf, about half the standard size, costs roughly 80p to bake.
Yes, I know. Add to that the £135 bread maker.