Panasonic SD-YR2550SXC Bread Maker with Horizontal Design and Yeast Dispenser - Silver

Have only made a couple of loaves so far but pleased with the results. Not too many recipes in the manual and the settings are a bit difficult until you get your head around them. Seems well made and sturdy. Not too noisy. A lot of programmes which allow you to try a lot of different breads. Overall happy with my purchase xx

One of the best bread machine, doing everything amazing kneading and baking

Meine frühere einfache Brotbackmaschine ist mittlerweile kaputt gegangen, nach 10 jahren und wollte diesmal etwas besseres zulegen. Ich bin wirklich begeistert. Die Brote sind immer super. Der Teig ist einfach wirklich gut gemacht. Der Brotbackautomat schafft es den Teig immer irgendwie schön sämig zu rühren. Entsprechend ist der Brotteig nach dem Backen absolut homogen perfekt. Keine grösseren Luftlöcher oder irgendwelche Makel. Was ich ebenfalls gut finde ist, dass der rührer, also dieser propeller, wie ein stumpfes messer ist, dadurch schneidet es sich in 80% der Fälle durch den Brotteig sobald man das Brot aus dem Schüssel kippt. Das finde ich ganz praktisch. Ansonsten hat es relativ viele programme und einige gimmicks, wie Rosinen streuer oder hefe streuer, aber da ich meistens nur brotbackmischungen verwende, ist das mir persönlich relativ egal. Ausprobiert hab ich es aber und es funktioniert ansich auch einwandfrei. Hatten auch mal Kuchenteig zusammenrühren lassen, klappt auch ganz gut. Das Backergebnis ist übrigens auch gleichmässig, mit 3 bräunungstufen. Kann ich somit empfehlen.

We went on holiday recently and when we checked in they had a bread maker completing its cycle and making fresh bread. There is little that can compete with the smell of freshly baked bread in a house. That holiday also cost be a bread maker, as I now needed one. I started doing a lot of reading up on different machines and this was my choice for the following reasons: 1. Separate yeast dispenser. Brilliant if you are making bread with a delayed start, which I do, to have fresh bread ready first thing in the morning. 2. Fruit and nut dispenser. Another game changer if you want to make seeded or raisin breads on a delayed start. 3. Two temperature gauges, one inside the machine and one outside the machine for ambient room temperature. This allows it to perfectly get the bread to rise in a cold winters morning in the kitchen or warm summer morning. 4. Sour dough starter maker. Our family enjoys sour dough but I have no interest in maintaining a sour dough starter in the house. This really becomes like owning another pet. This was the only machine I read up on that had a sour dough starter maker. Add a few simple ingredients to the supplied measuring flask, close lid. Put in machine and choose sour dough starter option. Machine runs a 24 hour cycle to make the starter for you. 24 hours later, put the starter into the bread bin, add other specified ingredients and a couple of hours later you have a sour dough loaf, amazing. The machine comes with a long list of different breads you can make and so far, every one has just been perfect. There is a bit of experimenting ahead I can see as you try out different types of white flour, brown flour, whole wheat and rye. Going to need a few airtight containers to keep the flour fresh, but worth trying the different recipes with different flour, buy smaller bags to start and experiment. You do need an electric kitchen scale as well, as unlike cooking the measurements need to be precise and you measure the flour and butter by weight. Just put the bread pan on the scale, reset the scale weight to zero and start. 3 different crust settings, medium, large or XL sizes and more than 30 different programs make this a world class machine that just delivers. Could not recommend it highly enough, your family will love you and you will amaze your friends at lunches and dinners. Getting bread out after cooking is a simple few shakes and out, and cleaning the bread pan is a quick rinse and wipe out, simple. Tip: kneading blade can feel stuck in after the bake, just add some warm water, let it stand for 30 seconds and it comes right out.

This an awesome bread maker. It is large but have it in the corner of my kitchen worktop for ease of use when adding additional ingredients. Comes with instructions and recipes and is easy to use plus Panasonic has additional receipes on their website. Every loaf has been a success, I've made white, wholemeal and fruit loaves plus used it for making cookie dough. The bread is amazing and tastes like bread should, like when I was a kid with non of the nasties that shop bought bread has. It's durable and well made, and for me is good value for money, has a delay timer, for fresh bread every other day. Other than the smacking noise when the yeast is being added this is a low noise machine. So glad we've purchased and wished we'd done this sooner.