Which is the best home breadmaker?

Sui_Generis

Will be trying that tomorrow, thanks. Any idea what prog 4 or 6 means? With others its often French or Italian etc.

janiebaby29

Sui_Generis wrote: »

Will be trying that tomorrow, thanks. Any idea what prog 4 or 6 means? With others its often French or Italian etc.

What bread maker do you have ??
I have the kenwood BM 250 and program 4 on mine is sweet

Sui_Generis

Its the little Argos one - sweet is what I needed, thanks.

Minihauk

Not sure if this is the correct place, BUT on HotUKDeals today it appears Amazon have the Panasonic SD254 on sale - says £67.89, but on the website showing as £74.95 so not sure if Quidco or something else ......
hth

Sui_Generis

It was down at £68 but now its £75 - was over £84 last week

Merrywidow

:T The latest Which reports says that the Kenwood BM450 is the best bread machine by a mile that it has ever tested. I wonder what Pansonic will do to beat this?

Amazon has just reduced the price of their Kenwood BM450 to £75.

cooking-mama

Merrywidow wrote: »

:T The latest Which reports says that the Kenwood BM450 is the best bread machine by a mile that it has ever tested. I wonder what Pansonic will do to beat this?

Amazon has just reduced the price of their Kenwood BM450 to £75.[/QUOTE]

Do you know if this was only a 1 day deal or anything?,it seems to be up to £109 now...I might keep an eye on this for price dropping again...altho im doing OK with my wee Argos cookworks one,(but would like one for gingerbread etc.)which is reduced again to £23.94 http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4229399/Trail/searchtext%3EBREADMAKER.htm

This morphy richards one is less than 1/2 price in Argos too at £39.99 http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4233419/Trail/searchtext%3EBREADMAKER.htm

PS,Forgot to add,the Panasonic SD254 in Amazon is showing as £67.89 today again,and the SD255 is £89.99...

PPS/could it be true(as suggested on the "shopping" board that Amazon offer different prices to different customers??
im seening kenwood at £109,but merrywidow is seeing it at £75,...im seeing the panasonic at 367.89,whilst minihauk is seeing it at £74.95....thats got me thinking their theory may be true..or just coincidence and the price is changing daily??

purpleivy

Sui_Generis wrote: »

I've been debating a Panasonic or whether I'd actually get any use out of one and when this was on sale last week I thought well for £24 I'll give it a go.

I can report it makes superbly textured white bread! Flavour a little lacking and I usually eat granary but baby steps - I'll get there eventually. I'm amazed at how good the plain white loaf is with this little breadmaker.

So what do you experts think as to ingredients? I'm currently using Sainsbury strong white with rapid yeast (the only one they had). Is there much difference in flour and yeast? Oh and can anyone advise on how to make a loaf that's similar to Sainsburys Organic Malted bread?

One more request - does anyone have a recipe for brioche?

I don't know where in the country you live, but I get Bradshaw's Bradmalt flour from the mill in Driffield. Or my parents do sometimes! It's a malted flour that doesn't have big hard bits in like hovis granary flour does. It makes a beautiful loaf, especially when i put my own seed blend in with it. I was wondereing about adding a little malt extract to increase the maltiness further

Sui_Generis

purpleivy wrote: »

I don't know where in the country you live, but I get Bradshaw's Bradmalt flour from the mill in Driffield. Or my parents do sometimes! It's a malted flour that doesn't have big hard bits in like hovis granary flour does. It makes a beautiful loaf, especially when i put my own seed blend in with it. I was wondereing about adding a little malt extract to increase the maltiness further

Sadly nowhere near but I'll keep a look out for alternatives. My local Sainsbury is a small one but the Tesco is an Extra - will try that out as well.

Really enjoying the stuff we make currently though and pleasantly surprised it doesn't dry out or go hard quickly. Perfect sandwich bread for sure and the loaf is enough for two days so its always pretty fresh.

How much malt would you add?

Sui_Generis

cooking-mama wrote: »

PPS/could it be true(as suggested on the "shopping" board that Amazon offer different prices to different customers??
im seening kenwood at £109,but merrywidow is seeing it at £75,...im seeing the panasonic at 367.89,whilst minihauk is seeing it at £74.95....thats got me thinking their theory may be true..or just coincidence and the price is changing daily??

Its possibly true but as to the SD254 it was £67 then next day went to £74 and in the evening came back to £67. Just keep it in your shopping basket and you'll see the changes.