Hot, fragrant freshly baked bread with a ruddy crust in combination with a glass of cold milk is an excellent pleasure that even people who can not cook at all can live and live in ordinary city apartments, and not village houses with stone ovens. The bread machine will allow every day to have fresh bread at home, for the quality of which you can not worry.
Do you want to treat yourself and your family with a tasty and healthy loaf? Buy a bread maker! And we will help you understand the intricacies of its acquisition and will teach you how different parameters differ and what are the most common mistakes customers make when acquiring this miracle of technology.
The main criteria for choosing a bread maker
What we eat on a daily basis affects the quality and duration of our lives. Want to live happily ever after? Eat homemade bread, which definitely will not be chemical impurities, but only high-grade flour, natural yeast, milk, eggs and salt. The number of ingredients depends only on your culinary imagination.
In order not to worry about the quality of the consumed bread, decide on what kind of bread maker you need. To do this, answer the following questions:
- How many people are in your family? If your social unit was formed quite recently or, on the contrary, the children have grown up and have already scattered from the nest, then there is no sense in buying an overall model with a large volume. You have enough compact model with the ability to bake loaves of bread weighing up to 1 kg. If the “seven shops” is about your friendly family, then a bread maker with the highest possible weight of baked loaves will be a good help in your kitchen.
- Will you only bake bread or buns too? The design of a suitable bread machine depends on the diversity of your culinary abilities and desires. If your goal is to bake ordinary loaves for daily consumption, then a simple model will suit you. If you like sweet buns, croissants and other goodies, then you should invest in a more functional device with the possibility of baking on small trays.
- Will you bake rye bread? Not all models have such a mode, and in its absence, pastries made from rye flour turn out solid, like a cracker. Even if you are not a lover of black bread, we advise you to purchase a model with such a function, because the taste of rye homemade bread turns out just amazing!
Now that you have been able to more or less definitely imagine which bread maker should be purchased specifically for your family, you can smoothly move on to the advanced features of modern home-baked bread baking devices.
Do not rush to skip this section, if you do not plan to bake anything other than ordinary loaves: appetite comes with eating. As soon as you try out the homemade bread, you will want to experiment more. If you initially buy a simple model with basic functions, then it will not be able to satisfy your thirst for culinary innovations. So it is better to take the bread maker "with a stock", which subsequently will not become an obstacle to your development in the field of the baker.
Additional features
- It’s hard to imagine a modern gadget with a single function. Bread machines can combine the possibility of baking bread with cooking jams. If you want to get jam of uniform consistency, without harming the non-stick coating of the bread machine, we recommend using powdered sugar when cooking, and not ordinary sugar.
- A busy business woman and caring mothers of many children will benefit from a feature such as fast baking: when every second counts, saving 10-20 minutes a day will be of real use.
- Manual adjustment of the bread machine will allow to cook in it not only bread, but also to knead the dough for noodles and dumplings, for open and closed pies, and much more.
- Weight adjustment will be useful for those who love variety: today - small French buns, and tomorrow - a lush Ukrainian loaf. Without this function, baking in custom sizes will either dry or not bake.
- The presence of an automatic dispenser for all sorts of sprinkling (nuts, seeds) will allow you to bake a more original bread without burning the top sprinkling. If there is no such dispenser, the breadmaker will warn you with a ringing signal that while adding sprinkling.
- The possibility of choosing the degree of roast crust is the lot of real gourmets: someone loves to savor an almost black slice, and someone more important than utility considerations, and therefore they prefer bread without toast.
Most Popular Manufacturers
We offer you a list of the most successful bread makers in 2015. In parentheses are the most popular models that have only positive reviews on the Internet.
In the forums of enthusiastic bakers, two foreign manufacturers share the palm of the championship: Panasonic and Moulinex. Both companies have a wide range of bread machines with wide functionality, from basic low-cost models to advanced semi-professional devices that not everyone can afford. Differences of companies in that bread maker Panasonic (for example, SD-2511) belong to a higher price segment, and the company's products Moulinex (OW1101 Home Bread, OW3101 Uno) is designed for the average buyer.
Good bread makers in the middle price segment are produced by companies. Philips (HD9015), Vitesse (VS-424), Rolsen (RBM-1160, RBM-1160), Scarlett (SC-400, IS-525) and LG (HB-1001CJ, HB-1002CJ). They can boast a large number of modes and options, despite the fact that the cost remains affordable to most Russian families.
If you choose from inexpensive breadmakers with a price of up to 3,000 rubles, among them there are also quite interesting models of such firms as Gelberk (GL 2052, GL 2047, GL 2046), Mystery (MBM-1201, MBM-1202), Delta (DL-77B, DL-8004B), Erisson (BM-160, BM-175).
Common customer mistakes
If you are not seriously approaching the purchase of a bread machine, then it may be that it will take pride of place on the mezzanine, and you will continue to go for bread to the nearest store. Why? Yes, because not all bread machines are as beautiful as eloquent sellers describe them. Focus primarily on their tastes and needs, and not on the advice of sellers - they often try to sell those models that are stale, as they will get more bonuses for them.
So, what bread machine became a nightmare for their owners? Here is a list of the most unsuccessful purchases.
Bread Makers with Sight Hole
At first glance, it seems that such a hole is necessary to monitor the baking process. However, why do this if the process is fully automated? Believe me, if you do everything according to the recipe, the bread will not burn without your supervision even in the most inexpensive device. Not only is such a function useless, it also harms the quality of the finished product. The fact is that the crust on the bread opposite the hole is soft and pale, and in some models it is not baked at all. Accordingly, it is better to do without this window.
Breadmakers with loading of liquid and then dry components
It turns out that the order of loading liquid and dry components affects the life of the bucket for kneading dough. Over time, its rubber gasket on the shaft corrodes from constant contact with the oils, resulting in a failure of the shaft itself. Replacing such a gum is quite problematic - it is difficult to find it in a big city, and you will not find it in the province in the afternoon. Why do you need such trouble? It is better to immediately take a model in which a joint loading mode is provided - so you will be sure that the bread maker will serve for at least more than a year.
Bread Makers with Two Mixers
One head it's good, but two better? Not in this case.First of all, there will be already two problematic rubber pads in such a model, which means that the probability of breakage doubles. Secondly, one mixer will cope better with steep dough for dumplings and noodles. The main thing is to make sure that the distance between the blades of the mixer and the walls of the bucket for mixing the dough is not too large.
So, it became clear to us that buying a bread machine is based on the characteristics of your life: the more and more often you bake, the more functional (and accordingly - expensive) model you will need. We wish you a happy shopping and enjoy your meal!
