Lidl/Aldi breadmaker

[Armchair Expert]

Anyone have any experience with these or recommend something not to expensive.

[sherman]

Well I use a kitchenaid mixer and an oven so not the affordable suggestion but it gets good results everytime. I can make a loaf in about 90 mins.

[Armchair Expert]

sherman said:

Well I use a kitchenaid mixer and an oven so not the affordable suggestion but it gets good results everytime. I can make a loaf in about 90 mins.

I tryed making bread once, it was not bread that came out lol

[jet_noise]

Panasonic.

[lufbramatt]

jet_noise said:

Panasonic.

+1, last forever

[dapprman]

Except .....

I had a cheapish bread maker (Morphy Richards I think). I used it 2-3 times a week for about 3 years when it started to fail - just was not heating up enough, showing how little they actually expect the devices to be used and so it was built to do not much more than that - only real issue was the paddle would always stay in the bread and have to be cut out.

A couple of years later I decided I missed waking up to the smell of fresh bread, so I bought a Panasonic based on the fact that they are the best consumer ones out there - just too many good reviews across too many sites. For the new few months I ramped up usage but instant start, seemed fine and most the time the paddle would stay in the come out of the bread, though I also seem to remember it was the sprung type, so meant to be pushed down as the down strengthens/tightens - except that part never works. I then decided to go back to the joys of waking up to the smell of fresh bread. Except it did not work. Investigation and experimentation led me to discover the seal at the bottom of the paddle was leaking slowly with the result that within 2-3 hours all the water had leaked out.

I am tempted by the Lidl deal though not knowing much about the bread maker and also seeing two paddles brings back memories of having to dig them out of the hot bread. Part of me also thinks about getting another Panasonic as I was almost certainly just unlucky (and left it too late to find out), however once bitten twice shy as they say.

[motco]

lufbramatt said:

jet_noise said:

Panasonic.

+1, last forever

And Panasonic again, but not quite 'forever' - nearly though. We had Breville, Morphy Richards, and some other make that I can't recall before we had the first of two (to date) Panasonics and the only reasons for our daily loaf not being perfect (wholemeal - notoriously difficult to get a good rise) is variations in flour. For years we used Carr's Strong Wholemeal until one batch was awful and they've not been the same since. At the start of the pandemic we came to an arrangement with a local craft baker to supply 16kg sacks of whatever strong wholemeal he uses and it's been very good.