panasonic breadmaker Amazon bargain £40 off

eloise

Well , just tried my first white loaf, absolutely scrummy. My DD aged 7 was desperate to eat some whilst it was still warm. Between us all we have now devoured three quarters of the loaf.
I was very apprehensive, after spending £100 on an AWT one two years ago. I only used it half a dozen times, because the bread was not good. To be honest I preferred the sliced loaves in the supermarket.The bread from the Panasonic breadmaker tastes completely different.It looks and tastes like the ones freshly made in the bakery. It was so easy to use and so quiet. I kept wondering if I had turned it on properly!! Really looking forward to trying out lots of other recipes now. Hope all those saving it for xmas pressies enjoy.

Plushchris

Triker wrote: »

Aww you could have freecycled it instead of throwing it away.

Didnt know about freecycle at the time, I wouldnt have wished that thing on my worst enemy though, it was such a big ugly machine and took up loads of the worktop space.

The one (and only!) time we set it to come on overnight so we could wake up to fresh bread we actually woke up at 4am with what sounded like a brick in cement mixer being thrown around in our kitchen, and when the mixing finally stopped it just kept bleeping.

Absolute waste of money as far as I was concerned, I think we only made about 4 or 5 loaves of bread from it.

The bread tasted great and smelled even better but seemed to start going stale as soon as it went cold and never kept more than about 12 hours before drying out.

Farway

Angelina-M wrote: »

Mine arrived today too and i'm looking forward to trying it out. One thing i've noticed is that the book says to add the yeast, flour etc and then finally the water.

This is the opposite way around to my other breadmaker which worked well as the dry ingredients would float on top of the water so staying dry until the timer started it doing its thing.

Does anyone here put the water in first or do you all follow the instruction book?

I always follow the book, dry in first, water / oil on top works well

My older BM finished up with a rusty gearbox [water in first] due I guess to worn seals, so the Panny avoids this pitfall

Plushchris

King_Of_Fools wrote: »

Obviously not a Panasonic bread maker!

Cant remember what make it was, may have been morphy richards or something.

Panasonic ones may be quieter but from my experience I still wouldnt want another one if the only good thing about it is that its quiet because I still thought it was a waste of money.

Bread goes off far too quickly and they are just too big.

sooty&sweep

Hi

As I've said before had my Panasonic for nearly two years and still think its great. We use it several times a week & very rarely by bread now.
I have though that some of the other makes are not as good.

Clutterfree you'll need fast action yeast, bread flour, sugar, dried milk powder and salt. The book says butter but personally I always use olive oil.

Type of flour depends what type of bread you prefer but I always add lots of seeds (sunflower, pumpkin & linseed) to my bread and its delicious.

Enjoy !

Angelina-M

Farway wrote: »

I always follow the book, dry in first, water / oil on top works well

My older BM finished up with a rusty gearbox [water in first] due I guess to worn seals, so the Panny avoids this pitfall

Hmmm that makes good sense, i'll try it dry first then.

Thank you!

bargain888

Got mine this morning.

I have now put all the ingredients in my breadmaker. Timed it so that is will be ready at 6.30 am when my 2 sons wakes up for breakfast. Just a quick note to say that I found it was rather confusing the way the reciepe book wrote down the quantity as e.g 3/4 tsp. I wasn't sure whether it meant teaspoon of tablespoon. In the end I decided on teaspoon.

Is this right?.

Angelina-M

bargain888 wrote: »

Got mine this morning.

I have now put all the ingredients in my breadmaker. Timed it so that is will be ready at 6.30 am when my 2 sons wakes up for breakfast. Just a quick note to say that I found it was rather confusing the way the reciepe book wrote down the quantity as e.g 3/4 tsp. I wasn't sure whether it meant teaspoon of tablespoon. In the end I decided on teaspoon.

Is this right?.

tsp is teaspoon

tbsp is tablespoon.

If you want to eat it at 6.30am you'll need it to be ready before then, remember it has to cool down.

waj1234

I have an older model which I got about 3 years back and it has been used every week. Bread is amazing and fresh and as for going stale quicker, it may do but it's not got all the poison additives and preservatives in that make bought bread last a week.

I use the pizza dough setting every week too and my wife will not have pizza unless it's home made now as it tastes so much better than any frozen or pizza delivery place or greasy artificial pizza hut pizza. Takes 45 mins only and pizzas are amazing and taste very different with good fresh ingredients and the lack of all that salt!

I paid £130 for mine and is still worth every penny.

Poppycat

I think a breadmaker is one of those kitchen gadgets you will use or rather should use. It pays for itself if you like decent bread particularly ones with seeds in, the bread is yummy, and the smell of freshly baked bread is great. Hardly any effort at all to make a loaf it does all the work for you, all you need to do is add the ingredients and of course purchase them.

The only downside is the bread tastes so good it doesn't last, but is that such a bad thing? Oh and you do have to wait but mine has a timer on it

Plushchris wrote: »

I have to say I cant see what all the fuss is about, its become a bit of a joke in our house that we refer to expensive electrical kitchen items that take up a lot of space and get hardly any use as "breadmakers"