Morphy Richards 48280 Fast Bake

I've had a Morphy Richards 'Fastbake' bread maker for about a year or so now and have had nothing but compliments on my wonderful bread making 'skills'! This bread maker will produces 1 pound, 1.5 pound and 2 pound loaves and you can now get packets of bread mix from supermarkets making it incredibly easy to rustle up a nice fresh loaf of bread - all you do is empty the packet into the machine along with the specified amount of warm water and away you go! It couldn't be easier to operate the machine (although an instruction booklet is provided). There is a removable loaf tin, which you twist to remove. Ensure this is secure in the machine and tip ...  Read the complete review

For some inexplicable reason, a few of my wife's colleagues at the Dental hospital where she works as a nurse, were extolling the virtues of breadmakers. Several hints were dropped by my beloved that it would make a nice Christmas present but somehow I didn't think a breadmaker would hit the spot - what do you think ladies? No surprise then that when the Morphy Richards Coolwall Fastbake Breadmaker was advertised as a Makro offer at a ludicrously low price of £29.99 plus VAT, that I trotted off and bought one. This compares to £44.99 in Argos for the exact same model. Check on-line for the latest offers and shop around. Before I go into detail, ...  Read the complete review

The Art of Acquiring Unwanted Machinery I love home-made bread. There’s something about the smell of brad proving over a warm oven that comforts and calms. It’s a smell which also has the function of making me incredibly hungry – don’t know about you, but I’m sure that’s why the big supermarkets stream the isles with bakery smells, just to make you feel hungry and buy more food as a result! In my opinion, there is nothing better than a slice of freshly cooked bread, preferably with nutty bits and a thick, dark crust, and a bowl of hot, steamy soup. The flavour isn’t important, but the ritual of dunking bread you’ve made into soup you’ve made, and ...  Read the complete review

Most manufacturer descriptions of breadmakers seem to begin with, or to at least include, the same rather uninventive refrain… Namely, they invoke the 'aroma of freshly baked bread in the morning', perhaps, or the 'warm and inviting scent wafting throughout the house, as you bake your own bread'. They're absolutely right, of course, it is a delightful aroma, but this aroma is pretty much characteristic of all bread makers. As such, there are probably more important factors to be considered when selecting a model, namely, those respects in which bread makers differ, rather than the one in which they are all much the same… With no shortage of bread ...  Read the complete review

Wow. I went to Tesco's the other day and a loaf of Warburtons was £1.45. Bloody hell I thought. And then I thought Bugger. And then I thought about women because my seven minutes was up. And then I was back to bread again. Now compare that to 55p for a bag of Tesco's own bread mix. Aha! Cheapy! Well sort of. Using a breadmaker has obvious implications on your electricity bill and some of the programs are quite long but cheaper than Warburtons, thats for sure. This was a much welcomed Christmas present. It has a use. Socks do not. Well thats a lie I suppose but they have a boring use. Ive always been a bit envious of my sisters electric time-savers ...  Read the complete review