Which Breadmaker to get?

Lizbetty

Can't comment on the Morphy Richards, but I did a LOT of reading on here and review sites, and the Panasonic 253 came up tops each time. I've got one now and I love it! I got mine from Dixons online, it was £80 delivered. That was th echeapest at the time, I've had it about 3 weeks now and despite my post pregnancy brain being frazzled, have managed to make lovely bread every time with no headaches! :j

Have fun with whichever one you choose! :beer:

Luce

mrs_potato_head

I have a the panasonic one and love it - I did spot tonight though a 'hardly used' one in our local papers classifieds for £25!!

Mrs P

craig777

Panasonic bread makers are the dogs dangly bits. If you have a Robert Dyas store near you, they usually have them for around the £70/£80 mark.

My mother went through 4 or 5 different bread makers before finally purchasing the Panasonic (which is what she wanted in the first place funnily enough) and it's by far the best of the bunch... so much so, that I went and purchased one not long after.

alips_2

we killed our MR (about 4 years of use everyday) just before christmas and have now invested in a panasonic, it is FAR better,:j the bread nicer, loads quieter, and you can replace the bit at the bottom without having to buy a new pan. :j
we went through 3 pans with the MR.
the only sort of minus is it takes 4 hrs to do a loaf rather than the 3 of the MR but we have soon got used to that lol
Ali

craig777

alips wrote: »

the only sort of minus is it takes 4 hrs to do a loaf rather than the 3 of the MR but we have soon got used to that lol
Ali

Why don't you do a fast loaf? It only uses a half teaspoon more of yeast.

lemonade_money

Thanks everyone - went out and exchanged it for the Panasonic today yippee!

davsidipp

i have a panasonic sd253 and it is used daily and i am normally a five minute fadder i really love mine so easy and good results.

angie_baby

Hi, can anyone let me know a good, cheap breadmakers?? Will a cheapy one out of argos be any good??

Thanks !!!

TNG

a friend of mine got the 25 quid one from Lidl a while back and swears by it. However, if you can possibly afford "The Panny", as it's known round here, then get it (Panasonic 253). .

I've got the MR fastbake, but don't know how much it would be now - I got LX Direct vouchers and ended up costing me 13.50 :rotfl:. Don't think that offer is still there, but may be worth investigating the vouchers board to see if you can get money off

HTH
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debtworrier

The general consensus around here seems to be that the very cheap breadmakers don't make very good bread and most cheap BMs therefore end up dumped in the cupboard under the sink, which is a waste of money. So it's worth saving up for a bit longer and getting a decent one.

This is especially true if you normally eat wholemeal bread; most BM's cope with white bread okay but struggle with wholemeal flour because of its lower gluten content.

After reading all the posts here I restrained myself and saved up for two months so I could buy a Panny. On the whole I've been very pleased with it, but you do have to be fairly obsessive when measuring out the ingredients, and it's a good idea to only do a recipe overnight once you've done it a couple of times. This is because the texture of the dough is critical to getting the loaf to rise properly (or at all :rolleyes:) and while a human baker has no trouble in seeing that the dough is too wet and sticky and bunging in a handful of flour, or seeing that it's too dry and sloshing in a bit of water, your little breadmaking robot isn't that bright - it just mixes, heats, and hopes.