Learn to love it (Panasonic SD253)

Member Name: laurel7172

Product:	Panasonic SD253
Date:	04/10/09 (50 review reads)
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Advantages: Rapid bake programme, easy to clean

Disadvantages: Recipes in the manual overly complicated

Buy a breadmaker, they said. It's so delicious and easy, they said.

Mine arrived for Christmas. I was off to a bad start because I thought all you needed was flour and yeast. The list of ingredients for a basic loaf was annoyingly long, and every single one of them managed to find its way to the back of the cupboard between loaves. The bread was nice-a bit sweet; the children liked it (they would), but it was a chore to make and bread was so easy to pick up at the supermarket. Gradually the breadmaker slipped into disuse. It sat...no...loomed on the worktop, inducing guilt and gathering dust. If it had been any smaller, I could have hidden it in a cupboard with the juicer, but it was so huge that even that escape was denied...

Fast forward a year or so, and a family member was put on a salt-free diet. No more conventional bread. With an audible groan, I pulled out the manual again. I looked again at the long list of ingredients, and rebelled. So I can confirm that you can indeed make bread in a Panasonic breadmaker using flour and yeast. And some salt, unless you *really* have to skip it.

It's now in use every couple of days, and I love it. Simple fresh bread, made with simple fresh ingredients. I wish I'd had the confidence to ditch the manual from the start.

Summary: Worth every penny (eventually)

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