2.2LB Larger Bread Maker Machine with Dual Heaters, 17-in-1 Bread Machine With Die-Cast Ceramic Pan & Auto Fruit Dispenser, Full Stainless Steel Breadmaker, 15H Timer&Keep Warm, Sourdough, Gluten-Free

This is my first bread machine, and I honestly couldn’t be happier with it. Right out of the box, it was very easy to use, even as a beginner. I started with a couple bread machine recipes from Pinterest and then bought a bread machine cookbook so I could try different types of bread. Just fyi, the user manual does come with some basic recipes to get you started. Since making my first loaf, I haven’t needed to buy store-bought bread. I just make my own. I’ve made regular loaves, sourdough, and even pizza dough, and everything has turned out great. The bread is soft, moist, and fills the whole house with that amazing fresh-baked bread smell. I’ve been using this machine weekly for a few months now, and it’s been consistent every time. I haven't had any trouble with the bread sticking to the pan. It slides out very easily. The mixing paddle only got stuck in the bread maybe once, and it was super easy to remove. I really love being able to make bread with simple, quality ingredients instead of preservatives and additives. If you’re new to bread machines, a few tips that helped me: fresh bread does dry out faster than store-bought bread. Keeping it in the fridge actually dries it out quicker. I’ve found that storing it at room temperature works for a few days, but freezing it and reheating slices as needed keeps it the freshest. Also, remove the bread as soon as it’s done baking. The keep-warm setting can dry it out if left too long. When adding ingredients, I recommend removing the pan from the machine first to avoid spilling anything inside near the heating elements. Cleaning inside the machine can be a pain. Lastly, a small cleaning brush that is used to clean glass or metal straws works perfectly for cleaning inside of the mixing paddle. Overall, this has been a great purchase, and I’m really glad I decided to start making my own bread at home.

I have baked numerous type loaves of bread in this and I have gotten quality results each time using recipes that weren't in the Users Manual. I didn't know if I would want to make bread all the time but it has been a nice change in my routine and a learning expperience. It is well made and the pan and parts are solid and of good quality. The paddle does end up in the bread after baking, but it is removed easily. The non stick is smooth and reliable. The display is the only thing I don't like. It's not well lit and I don't see where crust color goes fromlight medium or dark. Going in, I'd prefer a more customary loaf shape, but I use a bamboo slicer guide and get wonderful 3/8" slices of heaven..

If you're looking to make your own bread to avoid the unhealthy additives you get from store bought bread, this machine is one of the few on the market that doesn't use unhealthy nonstick coatings on the pan and paddles. Other manufactures include a ceramic pan, but still use non-stick paddles. This is not a perfect machine, but I was unable to find a perfect machine that exists yet. Before you buy any bread machine though, I highly encourage you to first try to make bread yourself by hand so you can better understand how bread is made so you're not just mindlessly adding unnecessary, unhealthy and expensive ingredients the machine recipe booklet recommends. Bread can be made with only 3 ingredients. Flour, water and rising agent (commercial yeast or sourdough starter). Sourdough starter is just a mixture of flour and water that has fermented for at least a week). Try a simple "No knead bread recipe" at home and you can get a better idea of how bread is made. It might even require less effort than using this machine. The steps to make bread by hand aren't actually that difficult, it's just tedious and repetitive. Mix ingredients, come back after a certain time. Then do a knead which is just doing some rolls and agitating the dough for a couple minutes. Leave, come back, often an hour later and do it again. Each step is very easy, but having to go back and forth to the kitchen every hour to do another step will quickly annoy you enough that you won't want to make bread regularly. That's where a bread machine comes in handy. It will do the cycles and rest times without you needing to come back or get involved. Comparing the cost of a bread machine, you might actually save money compared to other possible cooking tools you might need. For example, it replaces the need for a mixer, a proofing box (warm box to aid in fermenting and rising the dough), a large mixing bowl and a baking pan. No, you won't get artisan quality bread that requires a steam oven or large dutch oven, but you could still use this to leaven the dough and cook it in one of those after if you so wish. What a machine does provide though is a means to get "good enough" sandwich bread with the least amount of effort possible so you can have a fresh loaf every day. The ceramic coating on this is also very good. I clean it with nothing but hot water and my finger so not to scratch the coating. You don't need to grease it or use consumables like parchment paper you would normally have to use. You also avoid the mess of kneading dough on a kitchen counter. Running this machine also will consume less energy than using your regular oven. Cons: - No custom mode and inability to adjust the preset modes for longer and shorter ferment times. Bread machines in general have a very obscure obsession of making exclusively quick rise bread that can be done in a few hours or less. There's no actual reason these machines have to be limited in such a way aside from an intentional software limitation they hard code into their computers for unknown but seemingly irrational reasons. On this model, you can even set the reserve time to 15 hours, further showing the computer hardware can more than handle longer time intervals. - Of the 17 built in functions, most of them are redundant where the differences between a program might just be an extra minute in one of the stirring/rest/fermentation/baking stages, not enough for a materiel difference in your loaf. On another similar model with KBS, it does have a custom function. However, that alternative model has a weaker motor and might struggle with denser flours like whole wheat which was the reason I bought this model instead. - The simplest healthier and affordable bread you should be able to make is a 100% whole wheat bread. Not surprisingly, there is no recipe for that in their booklet, only a half whole wheat, half bread flour recipe with a whopping 3 tablespoons of sugar. YIKES. Other recipes are similar or worse, requiring lots of added sugar, a ton of added yeast and always refined flour. To the recipe booklet's merit, it does at least explain ingredients and how you can substitute them. Primarily, this focuses on maintaining a proportion of liquid to dry ingredients. Many ingredient suggestions aren't actually necessary, they're just there for taste or aesthetics. For example, you don't actually need that much sugar to get a rise and you can replace it with natura. I use only about 1 teaspoon, not a tablespoon. You could even use a natural sugar from fruit. Butter or other oils mostly just help maintain the moisture which might make the bread less crumbly, but again, not strictly necessary. Just add more water and you get a moist bread. Salt is generally necessary to limit yeast from over rising. - The fruit/nut dispenser is made with plastic parts and it stays in the machine even through the baking cycle. This presents a pretty evident hazard of the plastic off-gassing from the extreme baking temperatures in an oven which is very much carcinogenic. This reckless cost cutting design undermines the major health conscious selling point of why customers are selecting this machine over other machines. Luckily, it's removable, but it does mean losing one of the features this machine offers. - The machine does not do any type of beeping or warning before it starts the baking cycle. This makes it impossible for me to get to the machine to pull the paddle out, so it always ends up cooking with the paddle. The only timer count down is when the full cycle will end, no timer to tell you when the next phase of the program will start. You would have to use the included chart and manually calculate the time and use your own timer to accomplish this. - The machine automatically switches into a warm cycle for one hour after the main program finishes. This setting can't be turned off. As I often set it to go while I'm sleeping and don't always get to it until hours after it ended, the extra warm setting causes the bread to be cooked darker than what I want. A feature I didn't expect to use, but always use now is the time delay reserve setting. I wasn't sure why some machines have a dedicated yeast dispenser and others didn't. Now I think the yeast dispenser is unnecessary. The whole reason people separate the ingredients when they load it so the yeast doesn't make contact with the water, sugar and salt which can cause premature activation. Making a hole in the top layer flour for the yeast keeps it isolated from the wet ingredients, especially the sugar. The instructions even say to fill in the hole after with more flour to keep the yeast warm. As I keep my instant yeast in the fridge so it lasts longer, I've found just using the time delay function to let the yeast warm up over a few hours is simpler than trying to remember to pull the yeast out of the fridge the day before. Overall, while the machine isn't perfect, I still think it was a good buy, at least at the $89 I paid during black Friday. Bread machines in general are just not perfect and this one is at least much better than most. The build quality does seem very good and it takes up less space on my counter than my toaster oven. It's also for the most part pretty quiet, similar in sound to a premium low noise dish washer.

Hasta ahora todo ha sido excelente con esta máquina de pan. He hecho el Soft bread y 2 veces yogurt con ella, ambos con las recetas que se indican en el manual y han quedado muy bien!! Lo único que no me gusta es que el pan sale muy alto, entonces se hace difícil cortarlo y adaptarlo para sandwich. Me parece que tal vez dividirlo a la mitad para de ahí hacer "medios" sandwiches de tamaño normal funcionaria. Sino pues en vez de hornearlo en la misma máquina tendría que pasarse al horno en otro molde más grande.

O manual deveria ser em outros idiomas tambem