Cuisinart CBK-200 Automatic 2 Pound Programmable Convection Bread Maker for $59.99
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Cuisinart CBK-200 Automatic 2 Pound Programmable Convection Bread Maker with 3 Loaf Sizes and 12 Hour Delay Start Timer
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keysmad
added 10 months ago
3.5 stars on amazon, with a price tag of $105 for a new and $75 for a refurbished.
I've wanted one of these forever. What a great price!
Note that this is a refurb ("recertified") unit. Still a very good deal.
My mother had a bread machine like this when I was younger, and I don't know. I just never really liked the bread that came out of that thing. Maybe the newer models make better bread, who knows!
The bread depends on your recipe. They're capable of producing good results with some practice.
I'm positive she just used the recipe that came with the machine; my mom isn't really a cook.
Good reviews are just barely leading bad ones on Amazon. Cheap manufacturing, a thin bread pan, too high heat causing thick leathery crusts and burning are comments almost throughout the reviews. I'm going elsewhere.
I've gotten to the point that I almost always let the bread machine make the dough, then take it out and let it rise in an actually bread pan then cook it in the oven.
@belome: My grandmother did this for years with her bread maker. She never wanted to spend so much money on a stand mixer just to mix bread dough. We let the dough mix and proof in the bread maker then baked it in the oven.
Just thought I'd mention the one I settled on after trying 3 or 4 different ones.
The pan is considerably thicker than most, and although a trend seems to be towards more regular pan shapes (the longer traditional style), they didn't seem to work very well when using a bread machine as the paddles either aren't centered or it's a kind of half long size and centered. They seem to lose the dough more than the smaller bottom dimension styles and just nudge it around rather than really working it.
The programmable Zojirushi was by far the most expensive and seemed to lose the ball of dough as it used two paddles, and they also create quite often an uneven rise as the ball ends up at one end or the other before rising. The smaller/taller pans seem to keep it centered and knead it better as a result.
When my breadman breaks, I'll find another, or at least one with similar dimensions.
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