Panasonic SD-YD250 Automatic Breadmaker Reviews
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One of the best!
The SD-YD250 does not revolutionize bread makers, but it has significantly better features than most of its competition:
- Thick pan: even rising and baking, good crust
- Thin, flat blade: the loaf slides out and you don't need to fish the blade in it.
- Yeast dispenser: contributes to a very even loaf, and makes timer operation more reliable by preventing early yeast activation
- Whisper quiet operation: even while kneading wholewheat loaves this machine's noise level is amazingly low. The loudest noise you'll hear during the whole process is a few clacks from the yeast dispenser.
- Recipes give volume (easier) and weight (more accurate) amounts for flour.
- Supports slightly larger loaves than most machines (2 1/2 instead of 2 lbs)
Having used other machines before I was surprised how effortlessly baked loaves slide out of the pan, probably because of the flat blade and the good quality pan.
Also, the crust color is perfectly even from top to bottom, whereas on most other machines I've used the crust is darker at the bottom near the heating element and lighter at the top, another benefit of the thicker, better quality pan.
Finally, Panasonic makes spare parts available.
This is a well-rounded, high quality machine at a very reasonable price. You will not be disappointed.
Awesome Bread Maker!!!!
This year for Christmas, my husband gave me a Panasonic SD-YD250 Automatic Bread Maker. My first bread maker was a Toastmaster that spent most of its time at the repair shop. I have made, with my Panasonic, a loaf of buttermilk, cheese, butter horn rolls, and cinnamon buns, each coming out to perfection. My family gobbles these loaves faster then I can bake them! You add the dry ingredients, cheeses, eggs and wet. The liquid ingredient water & milk do not have to be preheated! You place your cold liquids on top of the rest, close the lid, place the yeast in the dispenser and pick your settings. My old bread machine would almost rock off the counter during the kneading process. I have made 4 receipts containing 4 cups of white flour each, and I could not tell the machine was kneading the dough. It is so quite during the kneading cycle. The receipt book that is included uses oz rather than cups. That's OK! Find yourself a good bread machine cookbook. My bread machine Cookbook has a conversation chart for cups to oz's. I have not used the chart, because the receipts using cups come out fantastic! Find a cookbook that suits you! I love this machine!
