Breadmakers?

mardatha

Is there a thread anywhere on the best breadmaker available just now?

Nargleblast

Don!!!8217;t know, mardatha, but we have a Panasonic which gets used all the time.

Nargleblast

Boogering apostrophes!

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I have a Panasonic brilliant. Not cheap but the best in my book. You get what you pay for. It's my second panny bread maker.

Fosterdog

I've heard the Panasonic ones are good although not used them myself. I have a Lidl one which does a better job than a lot I've seen and tried bread from but still not as good as baking it myself in tins. Apart from the effort of kneading the dough and needing to check on it a few times as opposed to pressing a few buttons and walking away baking in tins is much better. My SIL uses her bread machine (Russell Hobbs I believe) to do the kneading and proving and then pops it in a tin to oven bake. That gives good results without needing as much effort.

I_luv_cats

Best to buy a screw/twist down pan as I had one with clips and they broke with all the shaking

I'm Using a Kenwood one (BM350) which is ok though programming not so straight forward but the pan screws in / down so solid

discat11

I've had a lidl one and now have a panasonic one. The Panasonics do well in most surveys/reviews simply because they're the best.
Consistently good bread, easy to use, easy to clean.

caroc

My first one was a morphy richards, compact which worked well. When it wore out I had a carlton one. When I need a new one I'll go to the library, look at the which magazines to get an idea of the best bransd and see if I can find one on ebay/gumtree/facebook etc. There are over 3500 used /preowned bread machines on ebay.

mardatha

Great help, many thanks everybody x

jayII

Panasonic every time, I'm on my second one, my first lasted 15 years and was used daily. They make brilliant bread every time and this one also makes delicious ciabatta bread and sourdough bread, both of which are really delicious.

I had a Morphy Richards at one point but the loaves were very hit and miss and not as good as handbaked bread. The Panny makes bread just as good as the bread I make by hand.

maddiemay

Another vote for Panasonic, I had a Morphy Richards before, it was OK, but only OK, when I retired I treated myself to a Panny and would buy another when necessary, it even makes acceptable GF bread (no gf bread I have bought or made has yet been better than acceptable, but then I have been buying real small village bakery bread for the past 35 years when not making my own):(