Kenwood BM200

...look and sound of the Kenwood BM200. In Curry’s it was reduced to £49.99 from £79.99 (I guess they’re just always cutting prices), and was the same price at Argos. We decided to go to Curry’s to make our purchase as we didn’t want to queue for a ridiculous amount of time at Argos. We found the one we wanted, made a man go and get one for us “from out back” and wandered to the till. By this point I had already flicked through a few of the recipe books ...
...you but knew that the Kenwood offered much more value for money than anything else displayed. So we bought it, went to Sainsbury’s and bought ingredients and went home. When I unwrapped the box I was greeted with a quite complex puzzle, how do I possibly get the thing out of the box (little rant coming now, if you don’t want to read skip to next paragraph). If you are on your own it would be a nightmare to access your bread maker. It is wedged in ...

josarah 08.06.2004 · Read full review
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...desk, then suddenly saw a Kenwood Rapid Bake actually being used to bake a loaf next to the desk. This was on special offer at £59.99, £10.00 cheaper than normal and cheaper than the one I had picked. Sam lifted the lid of the Kenwood to see what was happening, and then noticed the placard that said, "Please do not lift the lid". We suddenly felt obliged to purchase a Kenwood! I couldn't use this until Christmas day, of course, but truly, I couldn't ...
...would be terrific. My Kenwood Rapid Bake is a BM200 and comes with a recipe book. I found from trial and error that the best flour to use, of those I've tried so far, is Allinsons very strong white (in a black bag) for white loaves or McDougall's Granary (in a blue and yellow bag) for granary. You can also use a mix of both for a paler brown bread. Funnily enough, the first yeast I used was Allinson's dried in a little tub, which I already had ...

sylviesinc 29.04.2003 · Read full review
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...new one and chose the Kenwood Breadmaker BM200, costing about £65. The first thing that I noticed about my new toy was the fact that the outer dimensions are smaller than my previous breadmaker, thus making it look neater and or course it takes up less room in the kitchen. The instruction book is all in English, which pleased me, as I can’t be doing with searching through all manner of languages trying to find the relevant one! It seems obvious ...
...in the language of the country where it is to be sold. The booklet explains the guarantee, all the necessary safeguards for the use of electrical appliances and then on to the business of bread making. There are clear diagrams of the breadmaker, although these are hardly necessary as it is so straightforward and simple it is almost unbelievable. The recipes are many and varied ranging from the basic white, brown and wholemeal loaves to all sorts ...

SusanLesley 16.12.2003 · Read full review
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...hard and plumped for the Kenwood BM200 mainly for the name but also because it had one of the shorter baking times and a 2lb loaf size capacity. The pan has a kneader that separated from the inside for cleaning which can be a little awkward to remove but if you follow the instructions and soak it with a little water in the bottom of the pan after cooking a loaf it does come out that bit easier. Initially I was disappointed with it - it is significantly ...
...it created. I telephoned Kenwood who told me to return it to Argos (where I had made the original purchase) with my receipt (which I still had) to get a replacement machine. I was sceptical about this, expecting an argument at the store, but I was pleasantly surprised to find it amazingly easy. I arrived with my machine, explained the situation and left Argos ten minutes later with a brand new Kenwood BM200 and an endorsed receipt showing the start ...

HighRider 28.02.2004 · Read full review
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...of butter. I received the Kenwood Rapid Bake as a present about 2 years ago and it has given me many delicious loaves of bread. It is easy to use and it only takes about 5 minutes to get the ingredients together then all you have to do is wait, it takes about 3 hours for a loaf but there is also a rapid bake function hence the name, this makes a delicious loaf in 1 hour, you need to use tepid water for this cycle to help it along a little. Size: ...
...and free delivery in U.K. I have never shopped here so can not give you any more than it is a cheap price as I have seen them for £69 and £99. Contact details Kenwood Ltd New lane Havant PO9 2NH WWW. Kenwood.co.uk ...

maureenhastie 12.02.2004 · Read full review
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...thing I notice with the Kenwood is the noise it makes. I have used the machine on timer so as to wake up with hot fresh bread waiting for me but living in a small flat I wake up when the machine starts. Of course once I know what the noise is, I soon fall back to sleep, so when I say noisy, I compare to the Panasonic SD 253 (which I now own and will review soon) which is ultra quiet. 2 hours and 50 minutes later my mouth is watering with smells ...
...is beeping away to let me know I have hot fresh bread waiting for me. As with all things cooked, the bread pan is very hot but using a good pair of oven gloves the pan is easily removed from the machine. I turn the pan upside down and with a couple of light shakes the loaf pops out on to the wire rack I have for cooling. Does the bread get chance to cool? NO! Within two minutes I'm stood by it and cutting the crust off. The bread is still ultra ...

witchwinterburn 17.05.2003 · Read full review
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I got this from my step daughter when she decided just to hand bake her bread instead. I had been wanting to make my own for ages, but I just don't have the time or the talent! This machine is fantastic. Its easy, you just put the liquid in the bottom, the flour on top of that, the other ingredients in the corners and the yeast in the middle. Then you put the pan in the machine and press a button. When it beeps take it out to cool and then you have ...
...stuff! It even has a rapid bake cycle that only takes an hour. I use mine every day now. There are a variety of different recipes in the booklet or you can adjust your own. I've started to put healthy seeds into mine and its lovely. I'm not really sure how long it stays fresh though because it always gets eaten so quickly. You can use it for cakes and even jam. I tried to make banana loaf with my own recipe which was not successful, but thats ...

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...day, but the really helpful Kenwood helpline (known as the Breadline) sorted this out and got us a replacement very quickly, whihc has worked perfectly ever since. My partner gave one of these to her mother, but It's her father who uses it all them time, proving that it's even simple enough for men to use! ...

quercy 14.09.2004 · Read full review
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I was keen to get going and rushed to Tesco to buy all the essentials. The instructions were clear and easy. The section 'getting started' did just that. It was great when the bread turned out, looking, smelling and tasting like bread! There are lots of different recipes in the booklet I have now mastered milk loaf (it only takes an hour- highly recommended) carrot and corriander, basic white loaf. I am pleased with all the results. The machine will ...
...Only problems I have encountered was a power cut which ment I was unable to over-ride the programme and the loaf had to be discarded, and failure of one to rise was probably my fault for not measuring the yeast out properly. All the loaves are baked with the 'kneader' in situ, so you end up with a hole in the bottom of the loaf this seems to vary in size depending on the type of bread. Once you've done a few loaves you'll feel confident to try anything. ...

micelium 05.05.2003 · Read full review
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I bought my Kenwood breadmaker for my mum and dad as part of their Christmas. It was just an impulse buy, but I wasn't to realise just how often it was going to be used. Mum was absolutely delighted. So much so that Christmas dinner was postponed until she had made a brown loaf to go along with the traditional lentil soup and prawn cocktail. Working in a supermarket which has an instore bakery, I've become biased to the point that I'm recommending ...
...The possibilities are endless. We have made just about every kind of bread imaginable, and a few unheard of varities. It also is great for making jams, pickles and chutney, and its pizza bases are second to none. We don't buy as much ordinary bread now, but always have a spare loaf in the freezer. Fresh baked bread is tastier, healthier and most importantly, cheaper. The only downside, is that it takes about 2 hours for a loaf to complete the ...

GavMan 26.04.2003 · Read full review
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Having collected my Argos Vouchers from another site on the internet some 4 years ago, I asked my partner what she would like for her Birthday. Imangine my surprise when she said to me "What I would REALLY like is one of those BreadMakers". So armed with this information and the vouchers off I trapsed to Argos having looked in the catalogue and picked out the KENWOOD. Having read the instructions and the recipe book we found it so very simple to ...
...in every supermarket, so easy to get and so cheap to. After about six months we decided to try out the ready mix packets from Sainsburys and Asda, we found that we were very disapointed with these, they just did not come up to scratch, or, was it the mixes? We tried others over the next year or so but always went back to the single ingredients. 4 years on and we buy our bread flour from Lidel @ 65p, yeast from the same place @ 29p for 2 sachets, ...

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...I have now collected my third pan, with only 1 month to go until the guarantee runs out. The simple fact of the matter is that the bread pan is too weak and buckles easily. I would never buy another kenwood breadmaker, unless satisfied that this could not happen again. ...

rivendell 23.05.2003 · Read full review
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I was given my first Kenwood breadmachine as a Christmas present which malfunctioned and ceased to work within a week. The replacement machine worked well and produced excellent results for six weeks when I noticed that the bread pan kept releasing itself during the kneading cycle. On inspection I saw that the pan had warped causing this problem to happen. I have since found out that this is a common problem with this machine so I would not consider ...

Pickyshopper 15.02.2004 · Read full review
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I've had fantastic bread out of this for just over a year and then it went faulty. I am getting error 05 on the display. Its been fixed at a cost of £20 and it did another 6 loafs and I'm now getting the same problem again. I paid £100 for it originally so in total its cost me £120 for about 60 loaves. At £2 per loaf I can hardly say it value for money although I can say its better tasting than any other loaf I can buy at tesco's. I've taken the ...

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