Excellent bread maker (Morphy Richards 48280 Fast Bake)

Member Name: lubyloo

Product:	Morphy Richards 48280 Fast Bake
Date:	19/06/09 (60 review reads)
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Advantages: Easy to use

Disadvantages: quite large unit for a small loaf

I was given this a few years ago as my friend had a new one, they knew I'd had my eye on them so I had a go, I have been using it ever since.

It's easy to assemble and easy to follow the instructions, make sure as it says that you put the yeast on top of the dry ingredients in other words put the liquid in first, then the flour and then the rest of the dry ingredients sit on top of the flour.

Ooo also top tip! before you put the paddle in put a little veg/olive oil inside the hole, then put the paddle in, it helps the bread come out easier! usually means the paddle stays in the bread but you can carefully remove it then rather than getting a huge hole!

I have made jam in my machine and it's fab, you put all the ingredients in and an hour or so later pour into jars and you have jam!! fab so easy. I've made apple & raspberry, apple and black currant using apples from our tree.

You can buy replacement paddles and inners so that is really useful as i've used mine so much the paddle got a bit scratched so I bought a new one.

It's easy to clean. One down side the cable isn't that long and it's quite large for storage, I keep mine out on the work top because then I actually use it, I find if I keep it in the cupboard I don't use it so much.

It has plenty of options, you can make dough ready to make rolls/batches/baps (depending where you are in the country!). Just load it as for bread and select the dough option, then the dough is all ready to make into small bread roll shapes then cook in your normal oven.

The only thing I find annoying about bread makers is to get a larger loaf they make them so the bread is taller rather than longer in length, so the loaf is actually no bigger but you get a larger slice of bread. This machine does 1.5 and 2lb loaves.

I think it's a great machine and I've had great fun exprementing with different options with some disasters on the way but thats part of the fun!

Summary: Brilliant bread maker

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