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

Nothing beats the smell of fresh bread. That wonderful whiff you get when you wander past the bakery in the morning is now available in your very own kitchen. Baking bread is something that my family has always done, when I was a kid my gran always used to bake her own bread and we were always treated with a slice when we would visit on a Friday afternoon. Nowadays though the invention of the bread maker has made making bread a simple task that anyone can perform. We have had a bread maker for a few years now but I must confess it's only in the last few months that I have really started to use it and become familiar with it. So our particular bread maker is a Morphy  Read the complete review

There's something wonderful about the smell of freshly baked bread, and that is probably why bread makers are an increasingly popular gadget in the kitchen. I've owned this model for a couple of years or so, and whilst I can't say that I bake my own bread every day, I do find it to be a useful little machine. I paid £35 for it on offer, it is currently available from about £40-80. I would say at the lower end of the price range it is a good buy. The machine itself: The first thing to say about this machine is that it is a bit of a beast. The user manual talks optimistically about its size being "compact", but when I measured mine it ...  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