I am in love with my Panasonic breadmaker

saving-grace

I've had my Panasonic for about 4 years now and have to say I haven't had a bad loaf.
I've had a look in my instruction booklet and there is a phone number for their "cookery advice line" 01344 862108 - may be worth a call?

rich68

Hello all

I bought a Panasonic SD254 some months ago and I am beginning to think it could be faulty. As previous posters have found, I can't get a 50/50 white/wholemeal loaf to rise properly. The 100% white ones rarely fail. However, I did do a 75% wholemeal and a 50% wholemeal a few months ago which came out fine so I know it should work.

I read that wholemeal flour absorbs more water so I've tried adding water with no improvement. But I did read somewhere that a fault can sometimes occur where the unit doesn't warm the dough during the rising stage.

So I just wondered what people on here think about this. It would be a shame if faults are common.

It just occurred to me that I use the wholemeal program to do the 50/50 loaves. I could try the white program to see if it makes any difference. Annoyingly though my last white one failed to rise which is unusual and I weight everything out accurately.

Thanks

chmmy

Yes, if you use w/m flour but on the white program you will be able to find out if it's the flour or the panny. I get reasonable results on a 50/50, but any more w/m than that usually would be quite heavy. Let us know how it gets on:D

Andy_Hamilton

I never make 100% WM loaves unless I have starch water to use (boiled potatoes or pasta but not if I have added salt to the water).

The panasonic troubleshooting website is best:
http://panasonic.co.jp/appliance/global/products/bread_bakery/troubles.html

I have not had a bad loaf from the machine, just when I do something.

purpleivy

Not unless I leave out the paddle/don't put the yeast in, you know the kind of thing.

Farway

I have just read on another MSE bread thread that using spud or pasta water with w/m helps, but not if you added salt to the water

Never tried it, but other poster said it always works

sorry can't do a link

Pitlanepiglet

Could you just bear with me while I have a Panny related rant?! Mine seems to get confused if it isn't turned off at the mains between uses. If it's left on, it goes into a "sleep" mode but when it wakes up it reverts only to a four hour bake programme and won't reset until you turn it off for long enough that it forgets.....firstly does anyone else's do this?

Secondly...I told hubby this the other day and said "please make sure you turn it off" soooooo he took the bleeding bread out of it this morning as I left the house at 7.15am, I get early this evening 6.30pm and think goodie, I can pop a four hour fruit loaf through this evening (can't do it on the timer) and it will be done by 10.30 when I go to bed......soooo I rush round, shove the ingredients in it, the display is blank so I think that's OK.....then I go to turn it on at the plug, it's already turned on so I wake it up and it won't do anything other than bake on four hours XL or turn off.

I unplugged it for ten minutes but it's not enough to reset it.....I've now just given up and put it on an XL 4 hour bake and I'll have to try to add the fruit manually and I'll have to stay up until 11 which is later for me.....I'm bleeding furious with him...what is so difficult about it?

.....and breathe......

Sorry!!

traciekan

SammyD wrote: »

But do you really think they save money? I too have a panasonic, but it sits unused in my kitchen cupboard...I just felt that by the time I had paid for the flour, yeast, electricity etc there was not much difference to buying. Would be interested to see if you are in love with the taste/satisfaction of home made bread or if you think it is cheaper...If the latter I may have to drag it out for another go.

yes!!!!
i use a breville and flour from lidl at 49p for 1.5 k makes 3 loaves, with 25 g butter pinch salt, tbsn sugar and 320 mls water and yeast each loaf cost about 30p inc elec. AND we never throw any away.

rich68

Pitlanepiglet wrote: »

Mine seems to get confused if it isn't turned off at the mains between uses. If it's left on, it goes into a "sleep" mode but when it wakes up it reverts only to a four hour bake programme and won't reset until you turn it off for long enough that it forgets.....firstly does anyone else's do this?

Yes, mine does exactly the same.

Pitlanepiglet wrote: »

I unplugged it for ten minutes but it's not enough to reset it..

Same here too. I think it needs at least 15 or 20 minutes. It would be good if this was in the manual because the first time this happened to me I unplugged it several times before realising (of course having to start waiting over again each time).

Pitlanepiglet

Thanks Rich, glad to hear it's not just mine!

Things are calmer here, I've had my whinge at DH and he's brought me gin, tonic and chocolate so we have peace again (except I've got to wait up until 11!)