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As you can see, the Cuisinart CBK is a rectangular shaped machine with a shiny stainless steel shell. It looks just as nice as the high-end bread makers.
There are handles on the side for easy carrying if you need to move it into storage. It sounds like a high-end machine too, with beeping alarms to indicate when you should incorporate nuts and fruit. Functionality-wise, it passes all our tests see our review. All I want is a machine that will knead and bake the bread right. I like to eat blueberry bread and my wife likes all kinds of sweet breads too. And I am not smart enough to own a machine with too many controls or options. Thank you. Your email address will not be published. Loaf Capacity, 2 lb White.
List Price: You Save: I liked this machine, though there were one or two qualms preventing it from finishing higher. Firstly, it was really noisy while kneading.
The touchscreen was also not the most responsive, often leaving me a tad frustrated. You can watch the progress through a see-through area. The kneading paddle never got stuck inside the loaf. And, bar one bread, they were all very tasty.
While it does use two paddles to make a standard-shaped loaf a rare feature among bread machines it generally disappointed us. Read More. It smelt nice, with a pleasing taste of French bread. Realizing that gluten-free recipes can be particularly finicky and disappointing, we made two more gluten-free recipes to confirm that the original recipe was to blame and to see how reliably each machine would perform through multiple approaches. Get a link: The controls are a little fiddly and wobbly, belying the cheaper build quality of this machine.
It did taste a tad brioche-y, but when toasted it took on wonderful charred flavours. A French was very uniform looking, with a classic loaf shape and a decent texture and smell. The brown was properly crusty, again a good size for sarnies, and, thanks to the recipe instructing pc whole wheat rather than a mix, it tasted healthy and hearty.
A sandwich loaf was a really nice size for, you guessed it, sandwiches, and had a marvelous texture, though was on the sweet side. The first loaf I tried, a basic white, had a nice, artisanal looking crack on top. Toasted, with a bit of butter, it was lovely.
A brown bread was similar: It was soft, making it hard to cut a neat slice, and a little chewy and dense. Toasted, it was excellent. As for the device itself: A slight let down was the aggressive kneading process: B uy now. Though at least that means you get a sizeable loaf. The kneading paddle got stuck in every time, which is a shame. The touchscreen controls worked fine. A white turned out a little low, with dents in one side.
It was nicely golden in colour, though, with a pleasing crunch. But I found it a bit too sweet and stodgy.
Toasted, it went slightly chewy. A brown was very uneven in looks, and a bit on the salty side, though perfectly nice to eat. Overall, the machine made good-if-not-standout bread, though I found constantly having to pull out the kneading paddle a bit of a bore. Every time, even when I buttered it up, the kneading paddle ended up inside the loaf; often, pulling it out meant ripping off half the bread.
Kids would probably love the sweetness. The texture was scone-like. Not particularly impressive, but perfectly edible though very salty. The texture was nice and airy, however. I also tried the pizza dough, where the machine kneads the dough but you're then left to your devices.
While the pizza didn't blow me away, it wasn't bad at all. It varies, massively. Most have a quick bake setting, where you can make bread in under two hours. Generally, I found these to be less tasty than the regular breads, which range from anywhere between two and a half hours to six. You can also time your loaf. For example, if you want to wake up to freshly baked warm bread, you can chuck all the ingredients in the bread pan before bed and time it for when you wake up.
T he usual: Most will also require sugar, fat butter or oil, specified and milk powder. Overall the breads were too sweet, so I'd suggest tinkering with the sugar.
You can tweak the length of each part of the baking programme and store up to five custom programmes in the machine's memory. Letting you fine-tune the bread maker to your own tastes and choice of flour.
There's a window in the top and a light, so you can keep an eye on your bake, although we're not sure it's really necessary. Its big size is reflected in some big loaves, following the standard recipes provided, so if you like a big slice of bread, the Kenwood is a good choice.
The white loaf was excellent with a very even texture and the fruit loaf had a good, even spread of raisins, although the wholemeal was a touch on the dry side. It's a good buy for the money, particularly if you like big white loaves and the ability to tweak endlessly. Yes; Number of programmes: Ease of use has been prioritised, with 11 programmes that include gluten-free and knead-only taking the hard work out of making bread rolls to bake in the oven and three crust settings.
An up to hour delayed start works well for coming home to the smell of freshly baked bread, but less so for waking up to as the maker is pretty noisy when mixing. In lieu of an extras dispenser, it beeps loudly to let you know to when you can add fruit or nuts. The resulting bread was a tasty 1lb white loaf with a thick golden brown crust and well-risen top on the basic programme. However, the loaf was reluctant to be removed from its pan, so the included hook for removing the paddle came in handy.
Buy now from Lakeland. If money isn't a big worry and you want a bread maker that lets you take as much control as possible — short of actually making the dough yourself and popping it in the oven — then this celebrity-chef-endorsed machine from Sage could be just the thing. Heston is famed for his more complex recipes and the Sage certainly has a little of that, letting you tweak its recipes or create whole new ones using the large screen and twisting knob.
It has a collapsing paddle, so you're not left with a big hole in the bottom of your loaf, which is clever, although the results aren't radically different to other models.
The loaves I made from the recipes came out well, although they were lower, like bakery loaves, rather than tall sandwich loaves as you might be used to. Still, with the ability to almost endlessly tinker to match its programmes to your ingredients and preferences, the Custom Loaf will certainly appeal to some. Read our full Sage by Heston Blumenthal: