Recommend bread machine?

[7rider]

I also have the Breadman Ultimate. It's great and idiot-proof, yet still allows for some creativity.

[tattiefritter]

I have a Panasonic SD253 (I think). We bought it because it got the most glowing reviews here in the UK for reliability and loaf turnout. It also has an automatic dispenser for adding seeds/fruit etc to a loaf mix as well as settings for all sorts of things (but not jam making). I'm not sure if the exact model I have is available in the US as an ex-pat friend of mine living in Dallas,TX couldn't find it, however this one on Amazon is similar:

http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-SD-Y...&s=home-garden

Try to get one with a timer (I think most of them do) so you can say put the ingredients in at night and wake up to fresh bread.

I love my bread machine and in the rare event I have to buy bread it is always a let down. I've never had a bad loaf out of it (aprat from the time when I forgot to put the yeast in !), it does 100% wholemeal ok but I prefer 70% as its lighter but I'm sure with some experimentation I could get the 100% right. All the loaf types I've made in it make the most fantastic toast - I've never had shop bought come close to it.

[Offthegrid]

I definitely plan to get a bread machine. Although I'm sure handmade bread cannot compare, I am not a good cook. And I just don't have time to make bread by hand every week.

Does the Breadman Ultimate have one paddle or two? Apparently gluten-free dough is "heavier."

You can buy gluten-free bread mixes or substitute rice or tapioca flour in recipes.

[Blueberry]

http://www.enabling.org/ia/celiac/rec/bmselect.html

Seems the Zojirushi is the recommended one, but none are optimal for the characteristics of gluten free bread dough.

CA

[bambu101]

My bread machine cookbook has a section on gluten-free bread baking, and they specifically mention the Wellbilt brand as having a special setting for gluten-free breads.

The Breadman Ultimate has one paddle, but it seems pretty heavy-duty. I used it this mornng to make banana bread with walnuts, and it had no problem with the thick, heavy batter.

[Bikingmomof3]

OTG,
I like to make bread from scratch. But, before I learned how easy it was, I owned a bread machine. I cannot recall, possibly a sunbeam. It would not have been an expensive model. My friend's was very pricey. Both did the same things, took the same time to make, etc. Cheaper is not necessarily bad in a bread machine, unless they have drastically changed in the past few years.

[bike4ever]

We used to have a bread machine. We actually used it all of the time. We were remodeling our kitchen, and I needed to pull everything off of the countertops for the work. I put our bread machine in our oven. The oven wasn't used much since it was so ancient. Well. . . I needed to preheat the oven, turned it on, the house started smelling of melting plastic. My husband grabbed the bread machine with pot holders and threw it out into the snow. (We were in Pittsburgh at the time). We haven't gotten one since.