Where is best place in UK to buy a (domestic) bread making machine?

1. None of the bread makers available are domestic, if domestic means made in the UK or even made in the EU... All are made in the 'far east' these days.

1. The 'best' brand available is the zojirushi, BUT this company does NOT sell bread makers in Europe or Africa.

2. Look at
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   a good review of machines available on the west side of the pond.There are several brands sold in the U.K. Ideally you want one that isprogrammable as the Zo is, or as the eSalton Breadman is... so thatyou can go beyond the preprogrammed cycles when you need to. I haveNOT discovered one of those sold in the U.K. however. Good luck with buying one in the U.K. You might want to see if you can find a Zojirushi dealer in the U.K. and ask them if they can get a bread maker for you. I suspect the problem is the plug and wiring, and lack of approvals for the U.K. electrically.

FWIW

Rsh

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OK Thanks

Out of interest- what in your view is so good about "zojirushi" ?

Ship

RsH wrote:

If nothing else, the bucket is built to the standards of industrial machinery, not the standards of imitation fake tinwork as with most other breadmakers. ZJ also sell replacement paddles (at reasonable cost) and buckets (at great cost, but see above ;-) )

ZJs have great programming flexibility.

Problem areas: no autolyse step or pause button; you have to shut down the cycle and set a timer manually. And no USB port to allow programming from a PC rather than pressing 8047 buttons on the front panel.

sPh

I've used both the Panasonic SD-253 and the Breadman Ultimate. There are pros and cons for both of them:

The Panasonic's bread-bucket is a seriously chunky piece of kit while the Breadman's is much lighter, although perfectly acceptable. The Panasonic's non-stick coating seems a little less robust although the odd scratch doesn't make any difference. The Breadman's bucket is also tightly retained by two spring catches while the Panasonic's can rotate a bit too much for my liking.

The mixing on the Breadman isn't as good as on the Panasonic, in that it is easier to get pockets of dry ingredients in the corners so it is a good idea to ensure you have a wooden or plastic spatula around to scrape round if necessary.

The Breadman is much more convenient to use - the window is very useful, as are the Pause control, the one-hour power-loss memory and the user-definable programs. I haven't ever got round to using the Jam facility on the Breadman but I will at some stage.

In my experience, the results with the Breadman are somewhat better but that may just be subjective!

All in all, I prefer the Breadman Ultimate to the Panasonic (despite what Which? has to say about it) - it's more versatile, easier to use and gives me more control.

The killer is that the Breadman is also cheaper - Robert Dyass are selling them on ebay at =A355 delivered (Salton is Russell-Hobbs over here). I assume that the arrival of the new Breadman model is causing the discounting of the current (to us) model but I also hear that the new "whizz-bang" model isn't much of a real improvement.

As for the "lack" of a USB port, I can't honestly imagine why I would want to bother with such a thing (and I'm a Computer Consultant and the Ultimate Gadget Man according to my friends).