Customer Reviews for Starfrit - 550-Watt Electric Bread Maker - Silver
Customer Rating
5
Quiet and user friendly
on December 27, 2022
Posted by: Frenchbreadbeginer26
from Meadow lake, Saskatchewan
Gender:Female
I got this for Christmas and it makes the best French bread and dough. Easy to use. Quiet even when kneading the dough. Have had two other brands before and this is the best looking one of the bunch.
(This review was collected as part of a promotion.) I bought this to prepare fresh homemade breads without preservatives! I use the feature to mix, knead and rise then bake in the oven to make it more ornamental! Absolutely love this machine! Took a few minutes to figure out the programming then it became so easy to use!
My first loaf was the 900 gram white loaf with medium crust. It was inedible, hard as a rock. It seemed to me that the dough hook didn't knead the dough so much as fiddle with it, and the 900 gram loaf was too large for the hook and the breadmaker. I decided to buy bread flour and try again. This time I used the 700 gram white loaf recipe. I made one loaf in the bread maker using a light crust, and the other, using the identical ingredients, by hand. The one change in the ingredients is that I could not knead the last 6-7 tablespoons of flour into the handmade loaf. The finished loaves were smeared with unsalted butter to tenderize the crusts. The pictures show the loaves cooling, and the inside crumb structure. I preferred the handmade loaf as it did not have such a yeasty smell. The handmade loaf cut into 14 slices, and the breadmaker loaf into 9 slices, with the last 3 damaged or perforated by the dough hook. I had to then slice them in half because they are too big for a sandwich, so 18 half slices. This is my first experience with a breadmaker, and I'm not so enamoured with the results. I had hoped that I could use the breadmaker for kneading the dough only, but it is not so good at that, and using the oven to bake only one loaf seems to be a waste of electricity. I am disappointed.