With a bread machine, you typically put the liquid on the bottom, flour/other dry stuff on top, and then the very finely granulated yeast on top of that. So th

With a bread machine, you typically put the liquid on the bottom, flour/other dry stuff on top, and then the very finely granulated yeast on top of that. So the yeast stays dry and nothing starts rising until the machine starts its cycle and mixes everything. Leaving it, say, 8-10h before starting a timed operation works just fine.