Original LoafPicker feature diagram. Product references appear below. Not a product photograph.THE FIT AT A GLANCE
At a glance
Conventional bread and timed oven-finished dough; specialty sticks only with matching holder/tubes.
Extra menus require original accessories or manual work; no documented separate size/custom proof controls.
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The Toastmaster 1185 is a legacy bread machine with an unusually specific appeal: alongside conventional bread and Dough, its instructions describe Bread Stick baking and butter churning. Those features only add value when the offered machine includes the right components and the owner wants the extra handling they require. Its two-pound maximum is documented, but a separate loaf-size selector is not. This review is an owner and used-purchase reference based on the original guide, without hands-on bread results or assumptions about current stock.
A shared manual does not erase the model label
The recovered Toastmaster booklet explicitly covers models 1185 and 1176S. It can therefore support their shared operating instructions, but it does not make every part, finish or physical example interchangeable. Match the actual 1185 label and panel before buying accessories or following a recipe. A seller using the words “Bread Box” has not supplied enough information on their own. The model plate and photographs of the actual interior are particularly important when the product is old and packaging has been lost.
The guide states that the machine bakes up to two pounds. Its documented panel uses program selection rather than a separate choice of one, one-and-a-half or two pounds. Treat the maximum as a capacity boundary, not as proof of three selectable loaf settings. This distinction helps when comparing it with a 1148X, whose panel does document a size control. The original 1185/1176S guide mirrored at Manualzz supplies the relevant panel and capacity evidence.
Bread Stick is an accessory workflow
The Bread Stick method first prepares dough, then uses dedicated tubes and a holder inside the machine. It is not a button that turns a normal pan of ingredients into individually formed sticks. Before assigning any value to that feature on a second-hand unit, ask for a picture of the complete accessory set. A missing holder or incompatible tube can turn the most distinctive part of the specification into an unusable menu entry.
That process also asks more from the owner than a fully automatic pan loaf. You must be present to transfer and arrange the dough as the guide directs. For someone who enjoys shaped bread and has the original accessories, that involvement may be a positive feature. For someone buying purely to avoid handling dough, it is a reason to focus on the regular bread programs instead. The machine’s capability should be judged by the complete process, including the required equipment and your available time.
Butter is a separate cold churning process
The Butter program is described as thirty minutes of churning heavy whipping cream without heating the oven interior. The parts diagram also identifies a lid used specifically for butter. That makes this a separate small task using the drive system, rather than a bread formula or a heated preserve program. Inspect the required lid and follow the exact preparation and cleaning instructions before trying it. A butter menu name does not establish a Jam program or a general ability to process any liquid mixture.
Its practical value depends on frequency. Someone interested mainly in weekly sandwich bread may never use the extra attachment, while another owner may enjoy keeping that original function working. The booklet cannot tell us how easily a worn machine releases butter, how noisy it is or how consistent a particular cream will be. Those are unresolved performance questions, not benefits that should be manufactured from the presence of the menu entry.
Conventional bread and dough remain its everyday work
The program chart has ten entries, including Basic crust variants, Insta, Whole Wheat, French, Sweet, Dough, Bread Stick and Butter. Ten entries therefore do not mean ten different flour or diet categories. Insta uses the specific recipe adjustment described by the guide and is presented as producing a shorter, denser loaf. Whole Wheat has its own preparation sequence. Choose by the recipe and named process, rather than assuming a fast setting is an interchangeable version of the standard one.
Dough prepares material for shaping and baking in a conventional oven. There is no dedicated GF menu or authenticated exact-model GF recipe established in this guide. There is also no confirmed saved custom program or adjustable proofing temperature. Those gaps matter when selecting a machine for a specific specialty purpose. A skilled owner may experiment, but an experiment is different from a documented manufacturer workflow and should not be represented as a tested feature of this unit.
The timer can prepare Dough, but it cannot finish the job
The guide explicitly discusses delayed Bread or Dough, with a twelve-hour completion limit on eligible programs. Bread Stick and Butter are excluded. That makes planned dough preparation a legitimate use to investigate, unlike models whose timers explicitly exclude Dough. You still need to be ready to remove and finish it. The delay does not create a holding cabinet that can safely pause a rising mixture indefinitely while your schedule changes.
Additions are poured in manually following an alert on Basic and Sweet; there is no documented automatic dispenser. For delayed recipes, the guide discusses adding ingredients at the beginning and warns that mixing can reduce them to smaller pieces. Eggs and other perishables must not be left through the delay. The electrical instructions specify a 120 V, 60 Hz outlet; verify the offered unit’s rating and condition. A complete 1185 is most compelling for an owner who values its particular accessory workflows and documented delayed Dough. An incomplete example needs a convincing exact-parts plan before its extra menus become a buying advantage.
Documented specifications
- Model
- 1185
- General loaf sizes
- 2 lb
- Dedicated GF course
- No
- GF capacity basis
- The original guide shared by models 1185 and 1176S establishes no dedicated gluten-free program or exact gluten-free recipe capacity.
- Automatic add-ins
- No
- Complete adjustable cycle
- No
- Body dimensions
- Not confirmed in the primary sources used here