I took to make bread, pizza pie and biscuits from taking in my first generation Italian gran . She did all by smell. She would start by putting a plastic cloth on the kitchen table ; then she would lay down a big mound of flour in the center of the table and make a natural depression in the mound for the other ingredients . This was her mixing bowl. Her measuring cup and spoonfuls were here paws and fingers. She would add the resting ingredients to the mound. My websites: Best bread maker reviews