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.

Update after using for more than a year : The pan ceramic layer has almost no visible sign of wearing out. I'm completely and honestly impressed. This is the only single brand pan (that I had several in more than 10 years and including the most expensive Zojurishi) shown such perfect durability. Never seen that before. Buy without any doubt. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original review: Bottom line first : Initial runs yielded good results. I’m trusting that this machine will serve us fine. We are very heavy users of bread machine(s). We completely ceased using "modern wheat" 10 years ago. We did not buy any bread or wheat product from store since then. We buy einkorn wheat berries only. We grind them on the spot and make our wonderful simplistic einkorn bread using bread machine. So we use real/literal “whole wheat” flour (that you can’t buy in a package). Our bread machine gets used on every second day and since our flour is dense & gritty (compared to fluffy white flour); we go thru pan replacement about every year. Average machine also lasts about 2-3 years for us. So we’ve been thru many different machines (started with horrible & most expensive Zojirushi) and quite few others. Keepeez is a completely unknown brand to us (as many other Chinese bread machines, almost all arbitrary “brands” which are here now – never to be seen next year). Keepeez had two different models. We chose this more expensive one; because it claims to have fortified / multi-layer pan and a stronger motor (seems to be better fit for our heavy demand). We’ll see how it holds. Our previous machine was a Hamilton Beach. It broke down and we remained with it’s pan. To our surprise; (although it’s taller) it fits in to this Keepeez machine too. Checkout attached pics. One current down side with Keepeez brand is; you can’t find a replacement pan under same brand (I’ll update if seller contacts me with relevant info). But since I know that Hamilton Beach pan fits; I can at least find that one. I also check Amazon and (looking at product pics) this Neretva brand pan also seems to share exact same base structure: https://www.amazon.com/Neretva-768490022642-Bread-Machine-Pan/dp/B0BY8R9YJM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3G1ALP35ETIPE&keywords=B0BY8R9YJM&qid=1701834487&sprefix=b0by8r9yjm%2Caps%2C565&sr=8-1 I’ll update if this Keepeez machine doesn’t hold up to our expectations.

I admit, right from the start I am a newbie. So a lot of the terms, such as fermentation, 12 and three were new to me. As I have progressed, I appreciate all the cycles on this bread machine I primarily bought this to do cinnamon swirl raisin bread. I followed the recipe for white bread, and it came out beautiful even though I wasn’t sure about gluten content or buttermilk powder, or whole milk powder, all new terms to me. The step-by-step directions are helpful and in big enough print so you can see it for those of us with macular degeneration. They are explicit about the ingredients and the way you put them in it is not a rocket science he just put the things in the bowl as it’s listed set the digital LED screen to the size loaf, the color of the crust you want and choose the right, setting, presto, you press the start button, and it goes! It’s that simple really! Now, the settings through me, I didn’t quite understand what it sweet bread milky bread or dough cycle, and a variety of other terms to choose from on the setting cycle, but a quick YouTube search answered any questions I had. The book of recipes that come with it is encompassing. I can’t imagine you would need anything more. I think the most important thing I appreciate about this machine is that it has made me search out any questions that I might have and I continue to learn. I’m trying new flours. My only con is the book that comes with. It has an email that is probably not correct anymore because I received a card in the mail from customer service. Thanking me for my purchase and it was a completely different email. That must be why they did not answer my question about ,when and how to put the cinnamon swirl in the cinnamon swirl raisin bread’. Told you I was a beginner. Otherwise, this is a great purchase!

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)

I’ve used the machine twice so far and I’m enjoying the ease of use. I’m looking forward to trying different recipes that are included so I can find my favorites. Although I’m loving the machine the real reason for a positive review is their customer service. I reached out for an issue that was all my own doing and they responded extremely fast as well as resolved my issue. I thoroughly appreciate them as I did not expect it to be that easy of a fix. So far so good.

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?