The first bread maker I ever owned taught me that making my own bread at home was very much what I wanted to be doing. It made baking it easy, and it saved me an absolute fortune. Unfortunately, it wasn't the best bread maker in the world and it certainly didn't make the best bread even if it wasn't bad. As it aged, I started looking round at various bread makers and chatting to online friends on a 'green' (environmentally friendly) forum about which ones others recommended. Unfortunately the really good ones it seemed cost a LOT. Then Christmas came. My mum who is an extremely generous person, knew exactly which bread maker it was I'd been ...  Read the complete review

^-^-^-^-^-^-^ ^Background^ ^-^-^-^-^-^-^ With the price of bread being so cheap, it does seem rather a strange purchase these days, a breadmaker. However, you have to consider that bread, and real bread are different things. A freshly baked loaf wafting the scent of yeast, rye or baked wheat around your house, is worlds apart, from the artificial doughy, colon clogging, mush, you get from supermarkets. Also haven't you noticed how supermarket bread seems to keep for ages, bread simply refuses to go stale, or mouldy these days. Have you ever considered why that might be, or ever wondered what is being added. Beware ...  Read the complete review

We were bought a Delonghi bread maker for Christmas but found that when we opened it, it felt like a piece of cheap tat... certainly not something I'd have thought would be the case with a Delonghi product. I had a look on the Argos website and spotted that the Panasonic SD255 machine had a brilliant 5/5 star rating and was selling at £97.89 - only approximately £5 more than the cost of the Delonghi one, so we exchanged the Delonghi machine for the Panasonic one and are so glad we did; I shall proceed to tell you why. Firstly, it's so easy to operate... I was very apprehensive that I'd end up choosing the wrong settings thus making brick loaves that tasted ...  Read the complete review

Panasonic SD255 Bread maker I bought this bread maker about 5 months ago after my old breadworks gave up the ghost. I have one word to describe it "Brilliant!!". First Impressions I have to admit i'm not one for really reading instructions I refer to just get stuck in and see if I can figure what to do next on my own. I opened the box and unpacked the bread maker from its ample protective box and polystyrene packaging and polythene wrapper. The bread maker comes with a soft back paper recipe book with plenty of recipes to get you going, two kneading blades (one for dough making and one for making bread). Also included are ...  Read the complete review

Ahh, nothing is better than the smell of fresh bread in the morning, well at any time really, and if you can make it in your own home then even better. I received a Panasonic Breadmaker for one of my wedding gifts last year and now make bread all the time so if you are thinking about getting one but thinking you might not use it I definitely recommend getting one as you will find you really will use it. I have the Panasonic SD-255/SD254. It was bought from John Lewis and I think it's about £80 to buy which ok is a pricey outlay but you definitely get your moneys worth. It is an upright machine (meaning you load the ingredients in the top), it's ...  Read the complete review