Panasonic much, much better than my Kenwood.
I found with my Kenwood loaves tended to be very heavy, regardless of what the recipe is, also loaves could fail for no apparent reason. It also makes a fricking racket, the motor is noisy, the bleeps to programme it and which signal the ‘add fruit/nuts’ and at the end are piercing. The tin needs to be wrestled in and yanked out too. Amusingly….. all the print on the machine wipes off with a soapy cloth too, the instructions cover two models with differing settings and weights of ingredients depending on which model you have – the model number and the icons around the screen and buttons have all vanished.
I got fed up with it and recently got a panasonic instead – difference is night and day. Loaves are dependably light, attractive, no failed loaves yet. In operation you can hardly even hear its switched on, no whining motors and gears. It has wider range of loaf sizes/weights and programmes. The tin/mixing thing is much more robustly made and you just place it in the machine, it doesn’t need to click or engage and lifts straight out too.
Better by miles and miles.
Where I’m going with this is, if you’re replacing it, can I have it? (-:
I expect I’ll be passing your neck of the woods in the next month or so 🙂