2.2LB Bread Maker, 17-in-1 Automatic Bread Machine Dual Heater Bakery-Style, Smart Touch Panel Beginner-Friendly, Healthy Ceramic Pan, Nut Dispenser, 15H Timer, gluten free, Dough Maker, Jam, Yogurt

Brilliant machine. Making delicious bread for me and my family

I have had several bread machines, but finally this unit is absolutely ACE, the ceramic inner baking pan is fantastic. Easy to tip out the bread after baking and easier to wash. This is the best and the beast of bread making machines. Thank you 🙏

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The good features: A wonderful ceramic coating on the breadbasket and paddle. A clever advanced design of the paddle that is really good at kneading the dough. Apparently reliable and no nonsense software - despite the challenges I have inflicted on it, it has shrugged them all off and kept on working. So, most of the hardware is pretty good. Now my problems. These all stem from the fact that my use is pretty demanding, 100% wholemeal bread that I expect to be fluffy, moist and well risen. [I have been spoilt by an upmarket Panasonic and expect other bread makers to measure up!] The bread maker “wholemeal” recipe was, in fact, a 50/50 wholemeal/white flour blend. This is a cop out - I want 100% wholemeal, not a watered down version. So I tried to adjust their wholemeal recipe to take 100% wholemeal, and got a dry, dense loaf that was distinctly uninspiring. Which is why the ‘official’ recipe was bodged using the 50/50. However, I persevered and learnt how to make a near Panasonic quality 100% wholemeal loaf with a series of adjustments. The primary problem is the programming, the problem is they are trying to cram a 5 1/2 hour process into around 3 1/4 hrs, and it fails under this kind of wholemeal duress. Basically, right at the start the freshly kneaded dough needs to be rested for an hour to allow the flour to interact properly with the water and develop the right characteristics BEFORE the yeast is added. Then, the second proving is way too short and needs an additional hour. Both of these can be done by use of the stop/reset button (for the initial resting, with yeast added during a restart of the programme at 1 hr) and the second proving extended using the 10 min pause button repeatedly during that stage. Very tedious but do-able. My only mechanical criticism is that the basket really needs a third heater element under the bottom, as it is very prone to winter drafts coming into the kitchen and has to be cuddled a bit to get good rising. So, overall this bread maker isn’t bad, and if you persevere you can actually get it to do really well. However the frustrating bit is that to make it ace - even give the likes of Panasonic a run for their money - all they have to do is add or modify some of the programmes. Just a software change, that’s all. Instead, they have tried to cheat on the recipe.

Great quality and performance

Really good. Deal price made it very reasonable. Replaced a faulty single element maker from same make with this for a few pounds more. Bread is lovely- even crust and tasty with our own ingredients , no rubbishy additives. Quite noisy but we have ours in a utility area so don’t notice it. Overall very pleased.

Great value

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.

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.

I bought this bread maker for my husband as Christmas present. The machine does all the work & the bread came out fantastic! So easy to use for newbies to bread making. Wonderful customer service! On our second use the bread was at the baking setting & it began to smoke and had an awful smell. I contacted the seller within 1-2 hrs later I had a reply. Well thankfully nothing was wrong with the unit. My husband left one of the booklets in the bread maker. He put in some fresh ingredients & the bread came out as delicious as the first loaf.

This is a great machine as soon as you figure out the functions ! I even made yogurt, cold start type! ... this is what figured out about the functions: 1) Soft bread (Basic white bread) 2) Sweet bread (batter breads) 3) Natural sourdough (Makes the sourdough starter. Not sure about the natural part. Is there such a thing as “unnatural sourdough?” 4) French bread 5) Whole wheat 6) Quick bread (Rapid Rise cycle) 7) Sugar-free (Not sure about this. What makes any bread sugar free is when you don’t add sugar to the recipe) 8) Multigrain 9) Milky loaf 10) Cake 11) Raw dough (dough cycle without a heated, rising cycle) 12) Leaven dough (dough cycle with a heated, rising cycle) 13) Jam and jelly (another interesting feature for a low-cost machine) 14) Bake (no mix, no knead, no rising cycle. Just a baking cycle as an option) 15) Yogurt (A simple but time-consuming process that requires a low temperature maintained for hours. Another interesting feature.) 16) Gluten-free 17) Ferment (This is a rising cycle only. Low temperature setting that can be chosen as an option for an extra rise if customizing an artisanal bread)

The first Keepeez gave me two perfect, delicious loaves. On the third loaf Stir2 cycle (second kneading), it was furiously spinning, not kneading, nonstop for three minutes or so until the machine smelled like overheating I had to turn it off. Back to Amazon it went. I liked the first two loaves so much that I ordered a replacement, hoping it was just a glitch unique to that one machine. This second machine did the same as the first one on my very first attempt to make a loaf of bread with it, spinning, not kneading, out of control on Stir2 cycle. Back it too went. I had since ordered another brand that has yet to give me a perfect loaf of bread. But is there such a thing as a perfect breadmaker, or is it just my luck?