My Tiger bread machine seems to be slowly dying, so I’m looking for replacement. Any recommendations?
I’m not a bread making aficionado, but I prefer to make my own whole wheat and rye bread to that abomination they call “shoku pan”. I don’t care about bells and whistles like making jam, mochi etc. Just plain old bread.
I’ve noticed that now they have expensive models with yeast addition in the middle of process as opposed to mixing it all together in the beginning, and also IH models, but I’m not sure how much different the taste is comparing to the cheaper ones.
Update: I’m not interested in ovens, kneading by myself, growing my own wheat etc. Just bread machines which do all the work for me.
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Idk about bread makers specifically but I just bought an oven/microwave combo from K’s. Sorry if I’m exposing myself as a bread baking novice here lol
I went to donki and they had a Sorica bread maker on sale for 5,000 yen.
I love that bad boy and it makes it own butter. I am but a simple woman, I like carbs…I eat the carbs.
I have a T-Fal I got used. It was surely expensive when new.
But its old and still kicking it.
Mostly I make pizza dough.
The flagship one is Panasonic. You can bake some cakes in it, make jams, and even ferment amazake.
Then you go down to kinds with smaller menus and fewer options.
Zojirushi is a solid one too.
The cheapest would be Iris Oyama and Siroca.
Nothing will taste as good as a bread baked in the oven but these bread machines can save you electricity and time. You throw in a bread mix, additions, yeast, press a button and when you come from work you have a bread ready. It’s also convenient to knead a dough in the machine, then bake it in an oven if you have one.
I don’t see much difference with the yeast being added into the separate compartment vs. directly. My guess is that if you put a long timer, you have to make sure then yeast is on top of the flour mix and not touching the water. With a separate compartment you don’t need to worry about this, or it absorbing the moisture from the air, it just keeps it fresher.
IH models are more energy efficient but not by much because it’s such a small machine.
It’s really not hard to make good bread.
Look up “no knead” recipes, they’re brain dead easy. Just replace the kneading with time and you can make quality bread.
I would put the money towards a loaf tin or even a dutch oven.
i love my bread machine and like to make the dough in the machine then bake in the oven. i have had a cheap siroca but now i have a twinbird which i love. you can get used ones really cheap on the jimoty app!
We have a Panasonic bread maker, the SD-BMT1001, I think. It is *awesome*. We loved it so much it went to London with us (and came back with us!)