Kenwood Breadmaker BM200

It was a few weeks before Christmas 2002 and I was on the Atkins diet...you know, lots of protein and vegetables, minimal fruit and definitely no high carbohydrate foods like bread, pasta and potatoes. My darling hubby Sam, whom I love to bits, always has big problems when it comes to buying me presents. As he rightly says, I have loads of jewellery, clothes, perfumes, etc and all the usual gadgets except.............you've guessed it, the one gadget I didn't have was a bread maker! He hummed and hawed and I knew that he had something on his mind, so eventually I dragged it out of him. He wanted to buy me a bread maker for Christmas but didn't know if I'd ...  Read the complete review

It was my birthday recently and we have recently moved into a new house, put these two factors together and you get a simple equation…Birthday Present = house gadget! Now I don’t mind that I am getting a bread maker as a birthday pressie, I want one, and what better way to make sure I remember to take my sandwiches to work in the morning than to make them with lovely fresh bread? The thing is you see, my sister has one, my boyfriends mum has one and makes the best stollen I have ever tasted. My parents however have been Atkins Diet compromised and whilst living with them I had to defrost slice by slice as and when I needed from a loaf of Warburtons. As a result I now ...  Read the complete review

I hate that time of year when people start asking what you want for Christmas. It’s a lot of effort to think of exciting new things, and it eliminates the element of surprise on Chrimstmas morning, when you know what you’ve asked for…. Imagine my delight when my mother-in-law surprised me last year with a bread-maker! I was so chuffed. In my own soppy, romanticized little world, I’d always wanted to make my own bread, but was too scared of complete and utter failure (like I witnessed with my own mum’s bread!) to try. But with a bread-maker, it couldn’t be easier. The model I was given was a Kenwood Rapid Bake. It is ...  Read the complete review

For my birthday I had a new breadmaker, yes I know I only had my other one for a couple of years but it had become unusable. I did have a Morphy Richards Essential Breadmaker at a cost of just £39.99 from Sainsbury's. Well I got what I paid for. It worked well at first but after a while the bread began to stick and eventually I couldn't get it out at all! I wrote to Morphy Richards to see if I could purchase a new baking pan, but never received a reply. So I eventually decided to go for a new one and chose the Kenwood Breadmaker BM200, costing about £65. The first thing that I noticed about my new toy was the fact that the ...  Read the complete review

The Kenwood Rapid Bake BM200 is the best present I have ever received. Usually all these items go into a cupboard and are never used - but not this one. I found a space for it on my worktop as it isn’t too huge or ugly and its used daily. The smell of bread drifting through your house any time of day is absolutely wonderful. It is so easy to use, add water first tepid is best. Then add the flour, strong white is best or wholemeal. In each corner add the powdered milk, the salt, the butter and the sugar. Then make a well in the middle and add the dry yeast granules. Set and leave. I’ve tried small white, large whites, wholemeal and bread ...  Read the complete review