Bread machine with these features?

I have a Kenmore KTR2300 with horizontal pan and one mixing paddle. It works perfectly as far as I am concerned. I bought it at Sears for $65 a few months ago. I make about 3 loaves a week and have not had any problem.

I buy my flour in a 50lb. ($8.00) bag and yeast for $1.88/lb. It costs me about 43 cents to make a 2lb. loaf of bread. This includes electricity and the plastic bags I put the finished bread in to freeze.

I used to pay $2.87 per loaf at the grocery store. I am now saving $2.43 per loaf. At 3 loaves per week I am now saving $7.29 per week. It only took 9 weeks for the savings to pay for my bread machine.

I know you didn't ask about how much it costs to make a loaf of bread. I only wanted to point out that it can save you a LOT of money, and thus pay for itself very easily if you buy your ingredients in bulk and make lots of bread.

Also, It takes me less than 5 minutes to load the machine (including cleaning the utensils) and another 5 minutes to slice and bag the finished loaf when it is done baking and has cooled a bit.

If my machine only lasted 3 months I would still buy another one to replace it rather than going back to store-bought bread. But it seems that it will likely last a very long time, as it shows no discernable wear in the mechanical components.

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Only if you are in the US, as it does not cover brands of bread makers sold in Canada, the UK, Australia, etc. that are NOT sold in the US

RsH

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Todd K. wrote:

I have the Breadman Ultimate and am very pleased with it - horizontal pan, single paddle, bakes 1, 1-1/2 and 2 pound loaves. It cost $100 from Cooks.com - shipping was free on that offer.

Dora

I got a bread machine for Christmas some years back. (verticle) I WAS REALLY EXCITED! There were a coupla' different mixes and It made bread (FRESH) and everything was fine. Bread at Christmas... Newyears... Easter... (Holidays) anyway It was (is) a Westbend... It sat on the shelf in the cabinet behind the "electric Wok", the Rice cooker, the Electric skillet, the electric Fryer... You get the picture.. I just didn't like the loaf asthetics. I didn't like the shape of the loaf or where and how it was browned, But the bread was good... But the mixes were expensive... So, I read in here 2 or