Breadmakers - suggestions please :)

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CHokKA

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Hey everyone

Before I start off, I just thought I'd say that I am no novice when it comes to making bread. I love making it and have made normal loaves, bread rolls, and even bagels. My issue at the moment, with an 18-month old, is the time aspect. There's nothing like fresh bread, but unfortunately having a little one cuts into my time (in the very best of ways I might add!) so I'm looking at getting a breadmaker.

So anyway, ideally, if possible, I'm after one that has the ability to make light, airy bread. I know that's a big ask but does anyone here that has experience with breadmakers know of any that are capable of this? If not, what would you suggest as a good breadmaker to get? Budget is around £100. Just having the ability to put all the ingredients into the breadmaker and then leaving it to do its thing would be awesome. Fresh bread whenever we want it is always a good thing!

Many thanks all :)
 
Thanks for the advice folks :) We've been looking at the Panasonic 2502 as well.

Just to clarify for those saying about making real bread and proving it etc, I normally don't have time to do this anymore. It's mainly the proving, knocking back, kneading and proving again to get a good consistency that is too time consuming. And if I want a nice loaf of homemade bread, I've got to put that time in and I just don't have it now. Even the process of making dough, kneading it and then putting it in the fridge to prove until morning is time consuming in itself because then you've got the cleaning up etc. I know it might sound stupid but my life is quite busy :)

Also, the biggest plus point with a breadmaker is that both me and my wife can bake bread whenever we like. It's not a replacement for making bread if I have the time like over the weekend, but it sure will help loads for allowing us to have fresh bread for us and our son during the week :)
 
Oh and I forgot to mention that I have both a Magimix and a Kenwood Chef with dough hooks but having a single machine that will do the whole job at those times when I just don't have time to bake bread would be fantastic. And the automatic timer function overnight seems a useful addition as well.
 
Thanks for the advice arknor :) I am gonna pick one up tomorrow. I do get what you're saying about kneading in a mixer, and it works well enough but I will find it really useful to be able to put all the ingredients in, set the timer, and off it goes :)
 
Thanks boxman2000, that's another great recommendation for the Panasonic. I'm going to John Lewis on my lunch today to pick up an SD2502 I think :)
 
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