Bought a cheap bread maker a few years ago and it gets used occasionally but I have the feeling I NEED a better bread maker to make better bread.

Any bread maker recommendations please

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Also use Allinson Premium Very Strong Bread Flour

Moulinex

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is the cheapie a Lidl one? I was waiting to get one, they no good?

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Cheap bread maker you say

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At particular Panasonic or any one?

Panasonic – depends if you want to add bits/nuts/stuff or not.

As above. Panasonic. Whatever has a nut / seed dispenser.

Does anybody make bread by hand anymore?

Just curious, can’t just be me.

Got a Panasonic a few months back based on good reviews. MrsB bought me a top of the range one for ~£150 and it is excellent. Not bought a loaf of bread since.

Was meaning to make my own bread but never got round to it, so this has been helpful. Use strong flour though.

piemonster we do! my OH has just popped a wholemeal out, light, fluffy and gorgeous

I bought a £150 Panasonic one a couple of years ago and it makes great bread. Gets used every weekend and the bread tastes and smells amazing.

Don’t worry Piemonster I have just taken up the sport of hand making bread had a bit of a disaster last loaf forgot the butter 🙁 Do you use the method of have a roasting tin of water in the bottom of the oven when baking?

Panasonic here too. Used every day, and makes excellent bread and dough.

We make bread by hand quite a bit it’s a doddle really. Never used water in the oven though? Nothing nicer than fresh baked bread.

Piemonster, harrison and donk + loads!

I regularly make sodabread, its a piece of cake scone
Free yourself from the machine!

oven

Current wife wants one and I can get a Kenwood with a big discount. Anyone use one of them ?

Our Panasonic belonged to my Mum and Dad – given to us when they bought another, I guess it’s about 15 years old and still going strong (the tin is a little bit battle scarred but WTF), if it dies we will be looking for Panasonic again.

FTR, I too bough the (fully Monty) Panasonic model 3-4 yrs ago and never had one good load out of it. Must’ve tried 20 times. Yet a couple of friends had the same one before us and everything turns out pretty much perfect every time.

Our’s always seemed to undercook in the middle. Probably a duff model but never bothered chasing a return.

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Warburtons

Warburtons

Possibly the saltiest white bread on the market, renowned in commercial circles for the stuff.

Thrustyjust, my Kenwood’s not brilliant but it’s tenacious- it was falling apart after a year or so but it’s still clinging to life 3 years later, gets used every day or two. TBH it’s built like they expect you to use it twice a year.

If I was buying another one tomorrow I’d be wanting something fully programmable, there’s never a setting that’s just right (then again I like my bread well done)

piemonster – Member
Does anybody make bread by hand anymore?

Just curious, can’t just be me.
Stick yer machines where the sun doesn´t shine.I get paid to do this, bread by hand with a good oven is as good as it gets. Just use strong flour and bakers yeast.

Agreed. Or just a rye starter . . .

Panasonic here which makes a lighter loaf than my mum and dad’s Kenwood.

Add a dash or three of vinegar to the bread mix for better results.

Just use you bloody hands.

and a food mixer with a good dough hook and plenty of oomph

This thread should be archived for posterity next to the woodburner/ coffee / Audi ones!

Panasonic all the way I have 2 of em ( both are working brilliantly Long story ) the important thing is use a good strong flower

For us Waitrose flower is the best but we cannot make a XL loaf because it rises too much and hit’s the lid on baking. Lidl flower is also very good and about £1 cheaper to

Kenwood Chef, a silicone bread ‘tin’ and an oven.

+100000000 pauloxo

For the betterest bread, use a kenwood little chef

djglover – Member
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Key difference with the hand made approach is it costs nowt.

Ish, once you start buying peels, baking domes, bannetons, etc, ok get your point.

Stick yer machines where the sun doesn´t shine.I get paid to do this, bread by hand with a good oven is as good as it gets. Just use strong flour and bakers yeast.

Sunnrider, as much as Tescoids take a bashing on this forum. They do supply me with free baking yeast.

Where do you work, had a couple of vague opportunities last year. Just didn’t look like it was going to provide enough work. There are big commercial operations, but that’s of no appeal. If I’m going to get up that early I want to take some pride in what I’m doing.

We have a Panasonic one now after the seal on the tin of the previous one, a Russell Hobbs, failed after about two years of every-other-day use. The Panasonic one is a lot more expensive than the old one (it was a pressie!) and has disadvantages and advantages.

– the bread comes straight off the paddle every time; the other one you always had to dig out the paddle which made a mess.
– a “standard” loaf takes four hours instead of three, so needs to be started earlier on an evening if you don’t want to be waiting up until 1am if you want to make sandwiches the night before rather than in the morning
– it’s taller, so doesn’t fit under our kitchen cupboards with the lid open, which the other one did.
– the bread is probably a bit more consistent, and doesn’t leave unmixed flour in the corner of the tub like the other one did sometimes, but as for the overall quality of the bread I can’t tell the difference.

Cheapish Kenwood – chuck everything in and let it mix and rise.

Then transfer to bread tin in oven for proper finish.