Kenwood BM250

The recipes use metric units and I get a measuring spoon referring to tablespoons and (I think) teaspoons as units. I now have to go find a metric measuring spoon. This isn't an easy job where I live, probably involves a trip to the next big town, 150Km, after I drove 500Km to buy this machine (Thailand)..

My fist loaf was soggy and tasted under baked, so I reserve praise for a later date when I have experimenting a bit.

You should go ahead and fire the engineer who's responsible for design of bm256 breadmaker. My previous breadmaker (other brand) didn't produce bread as dense as kenwood does and i found the reason as well. Kenwood machine forms the dough three times and the previous one did that just once. The yeast is exhausted by the time baking begins and the top of the bread just flattens quite a lot. I'm sure that there's nothing wrong with my recipe - it's kenwood this time - and it cannot produce airy kind of breads - just dense dense dense. The machine just punches down the dough THREE times. Is that really necessary? The machine wasn't supplied with adequate program chart of the procedures it does and at which time and for how long. It'd be so easy to try and find a cycle that doesn't PUNCH the dough down so many times.

And on top of that the machine doesn't warm the ingredients enough for the dry yeast to even activate - and for the traditional alive cake yeast the program time is just too long. So it seems that i can never get it right with kenwood. It's a rubbish machine and i'll be replacing it for a better one soon. Its heating element isn't sufficient enough either. If u like eating bread that's halfbaked then alright.. then kenwood is the choice. It's surprising that a brand like Kenwood could produce a bad machine like this. It's just pretty, nothing else. The funny thing is that i had given it as a gift and it was just returned back - because they COULDN'T get a good loaf out of it no matter how many times they tried. Now i do know why - because it's true... And i am not a beginner with breadmakers. I have to say that Kenwood won't be my choice next time.

As soon as the baking cycle stars when I bake a bread in my kenwood bread machine there is a electric power failure, can somebody help me please!!!

Hi guys!

I've had this machine for about 3 years now, and I have been experimenting a lot with it.

I'll give you the extract of my experience. If you don't have a bread maker and you're thinking of buying one, this machine will not be a perfect choice, but if have already had it, then you can add some things to your recipes to get the best out of this bread maker.

For the basic and French programs, 500g loaves add:

1- a crushed 500mg vitamin C tablet(unflavored and uncolored).

2- 1/2 tea spoon dry ginger powder.

3- 1/2 table spoon cornflour.

4- 1 tea spoon cider vinegar.

-The flour should be bought recently, and store the rest in an air-tight container in the fridge.

- Don't allow the yeast to come in direct contact with the salt while combining the ingredients.

-The amount of water can be modified to get the best result, personally I use 220ml instead of the 240ml printed in the recipe book.

I hope you like my contribution.

Viene un ottimo pane ma ho modificato la ricetta, mezzo panetto di lievito di birra sciolto nell'acqua della ricetta, olio extra-vergine di oliva e non ho messo il latte liofilizzato, per il resto ho seguito tutte le dosi e stessa procedure. Provate viene un pane naturale e profumato.

just baked our first loaf in this machine no bricks here just good bread looks great cant wait to taste it but if this was on a bakery shelf it would tempt me to buy it.controls are simple clear and instructions concise anyone having a problem with this machine must be doing something wrong.

I bought this machine 18 months ago now the spindle in the pan has jammed solid cant move it. Also found as a previous reviewer that the receipe for basic loaf did not work, used the one I had previously used in my Morphy Richards machine which worked well. Had my old machine for 10 years disappointed that I now have to buy a replacement pan or maybe a new machine!!

I have 2 breadmakers at home and I find it very usefull and convenient. I can bake many loaves of tasty bread and the dough features are very good to use. Can save a lot of time and can bake many tasty buns and pizzas.

I have been using these 2 breadmakers for 5 years and now I have a problem with the breadpan. The water will leak out from the breadpan and could anyone please let me know what is the problem and how to fix it? Is there any servicing centre in Ipoh, Malaysia?

Thanks.

My Tip:

Before putting everything into the bread maker, use warm water (make sure it is not hot cause yeast will be dead by the time you put the yeast into hot water)(water is the amount stated in the recipe), add in sugar (if receipe does not require sugar, just add a tbsp will do) into warm water, and add in yeast (amount stated in recipe).

Wait till the yeast has bubbles on the surface of the water, only then you put into the breadmaker with the rest of the recipe.

It works everytime with all the recipes supplied by Kenwood.

If I do not disperse the yeast into warm water, my bread will always, yes, always come out hard as a rock or wet in the middle of the bread.

Having read all the reviews on the Kenwood 250 breadmaker I am beginning to wonder if we are all talking about the same machine. Mine has produced excellent bread, no problems with the pan moving, indeed I have trouble in removing it. Only by following, to the letter, the recipes and buying the best ingredients can you expect a good loaf, this is what I do and this is what I get.