Morphy Richards 48280

The Art of Acquiring Unwanted Machinery I love home-made bread. There’s something about the smell of brad proving over a warm oven that comforts and calms. It’s a smell which also has the function of making me incredibly hungry – don’t know about you, but I’m sure that’s why the big supermarkets stream the isles with bakery smells, just to make you feel hungry and buy more food as a result! In my opinion, there is nothing better than a slice of ...
...dark crust, and a bowl of hot, steamy soup. The flavour isn’t important, but the ritual of dunking bread you’ve made into soup you’ve made, and relishing those flavours and that sensation of having worked hard to make it all is just the best thing ever, in culinary terms. Himself and I recently visited Newcastle’s Green Festival, where lots of earth conscious folk get together and have a lovely weekend in the sunshine in the park. One of the discussions ...

phoenixgreen 13.06.2007 · Read full review
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...German). It was the Morphy Richards Fastbake. It claimed to make three sizes of bread, and to have a 'fastbake' setting for white loaves in only an hour. As well as a large number of other settings which I knew I was unlikely to use. The breadmaker is white, reasonably attractive looking (as machines go), and there's a hinged lid with a removable metal pan. It's a bit square, but that means the dough is mixed and baked fairly evenly. The pan has ...
...biggish - you do need a fair amount of space on your worktops if you're going to have a breadmaker. I know from experience that if I pack an appliance away in a cupboard, I'll rarely get it out. - FIRST USE We got it home, we cleaned and prepared it according to the instructions in the accompanying leaflet, and I decided to make the first loaf on Christmas Day. Unfortunately our kitchen worktops at the time were very cluttered so we plugged it in ...

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...results were conclusive, with the Morphy Richards Fastbake coming up trumps. Better still, retailing at less than £40, this model costs almost half as much as its nearest competitor in the performance stakes. Impressed by the hard data, I took Which? at its word and ordered myself a 'Fastbake' on Amazon. I hadn't really wanted to spend much, just in case the machine turned out be yet another costly, under-utilised whim, and at £34.95 this seemed ...
...really fond of cluttering up my kitchen benches with bulky appliances, so when the machine arrived, I was a little disappointed to find that it was rather bigger than I had expected. It's approximately 10" wide and 15" deep. It stands at just over 12", but this extends to a full height of 21" with the lid opened, so it's probably worth ensuring you have suitable bench space with sufficient clearance overhead. In terms of its appearance, however, ...

snowbunni 06.04.2006 · Read full review
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...I finally decided on the Morphy Richards Fastbake Breadmaker. As far as I was aware, Morphy Richards had a good reputation and manufactured good, reliable products. So, what do you get for your money? ============================ The first thing I noticed when the Argos assistant handed me the breadmaker was how big the box was. What on earth could be in there? On opening the box, I found all the contents to be very neatly and securely packed with ...
...========== Cream in colour, the Morphy Richards Fastbake Breadmaker is a very stylish looking model, though it does appear a lot larger than it looks on all the promotional pictures I had seen. The approximate measurements of this particular model are 15" x 10" x 10". All of the program buttons are situated on the front panel of the breadmaker, rather than across the top, which in my opinion makes it easier to navigate the controls. There is nothing ...

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Wow. I went to Tesco's the other day and a loaf of Warburtons was £1.45. Bloody hell I thought. And then I thought Bugger. And then I thought about women because my seven minutes was up. And then I was back to bread again. Now compare that to 55p for a bag of Tesco's own bread mix. Aha! Cheapy! Well sort of. Using a breadmaker has obvious implications on your electricity bill and some of the programs are quite long but cheaper than Warburtons, ...
...present. It has a use. Socks do not. Well thats a lie I suppose but they have a boring use. Ive always been a bit envious of my sisters electric time-savers and I must have mentioned this to her in passing because the big fat red one bought me one for Christmas. we thought it was an expresso machine but it definately aint. Getting it going -------------------- Having never used one before I thought it might be tricky but I was oh-so-wrong. It ...

dhillcrest 14.01.2008 (13.01.2008) · Read full review
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My brother bought me the Morphy Richards 48280 breadmaker for Christmas and as soon as I started using it was instantly promoted from 'brother' to 'superstar'! I used it for the first time on New Years Eve as we had some friends coming over for dinner. I did a huge beef stew and decided to do make some tomato and parmasan bread to go with it. The bread mix was only out of a packet, but it was possibly the nicest bread we'd ever tasted. And the kudos ...
...is about 30cm wide by 50 cm deep by 45 cm high. It is made of white, wipe-clean plastic and has a grey control panel on the front. When you pull up the top lid, you see the bread tin, the mixing panel and the heating elements. To make a loaf of bread with a packet mix (available in different flavours from all supermarkets) literally all you do is chuck the packet mix into the bread tin, add the amount of warm water they tell you to and switch it ...

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We were given this breadmaker as a wedding present. My brother actually works for a chain of high street hardware shops, so he asked the guy who deals with the returned goods which bread maker had the least problems. This one was his recommendation. It's selling on Amazon at the moment for £34.99. First impressions... it's big! We had trouble finding a location for it in our kitchen. It's too heavy to be put in a cupboard if it's going to be taken ...
...out. If it was on the work top and under the wall unit, the lid couldn't be opened properly as it hit the cupboard above it. After rearranging the kitchen twice we eventually found it a home. There are 12 programs: Basic (small & large) French (small & large) Wholewheat (small & large) Quick Sweet (small & large) Fastbake small Fastbake large Dough Jam Cake Sandwich (small & large) Bake It comes with an A4 black and white instruction ...

Madge11 05.07.2006 · Read full review
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...basically came down to a Morphy Richards device or a Panasonic device, and the Panasonic one was £100, so it was Morphy Richards for me. As it turned out, there was a slightly newer model than the reviews I'd read, so I went ahead and bought it from Argos a the price of £49.95. Now, I'd heard scare stories about breadmakers giving small stodgy loaves, or unedible bricks, so I was a bit apprehensive about the first go, continually saying things like ...
...trying." So, come boxing day we returned home and unpacked the device. The breadmaker itself is much larger than I was expecting. It's very deep (at least as deep as a microwave), and nearly a foot across, and so takes up a reasonable space on the desktop. Also, the lid opens up and back, meaning we had to place it away from overhanging cupboards. However, this wasn't a problem, and in fact we found the perfect spot. Looks-wise, it's a nice design; ...

DaveD 28.01.2004 (01.11.2004) · Read full review
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...still under warranty and so Morphy Richards replaced it without question. Unfortunately 18 months later (which takes us to last month) exactly the same thing happened again, so I'm going to have to replace the bread pan myself this time. Not too sure what it will cost, as I've been very busy with work and not had time to track down a contact number for the right department at Morphy Richards (having misplaced my original manual at some point). Once ...
...drops a star on the rating. Having said all that I would still recommend this machine, particularly if you're a bit dubious about using one for the first time. If my mum can use this (I bought her one for Christmas), anyone can... : ) Almost three years old and still cooking fine despite very heavy use, the only thing that would make me change this (excepting the bread pan failing again!) is the size of the loaf, with a fairly large family sometimes ...

jemima.peter 29.03.2005 · Read full review
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...catalogue and came across The Morphy Richards - Fastbake machine which can bake a loaf in under 1 hour. It also stated it had a 12 setting display and that you could use it for cakes and jams too - not only bread! The twelve different settings include: 01 - Basic white 02 - French 03 - Wholewheat 04 - Quick 05 - Sweet 06 - Fastbake 1 - 1.5lb loaff in 58mins 07 - Fastbake 2 - 2lb loaf in 58 mins 08 - Dough - for bread rolls or pizzas 09 ...
...- Extra bake So after receiving the machine i was dead excited to give it a go - so later that day we rushed down to our local somerfield to get all the ingredients. Obviously you will need to use different ingredients for different recipies but we just wanted to make the fastbake small white loaf in under an hour. Although it does state that the recipies have been developed by using Allinson flours and Easybake Allinson yeast. So obviously it ...

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...review on the 500 watt Morphy Richards breadmaker, model 48280, usually known as the "Fastbake", I have had one of these for about six months now, and get amazing results. When I use the word "bread" I also mean basic bread, softgrain, white & brown, Italian herb bread, hot cross buns, pizza bases, fruit cakes, cheese & onion bread, raisen bread, sun-dried tomato loaf, and malt loaf, because the machine does them all. It is also supposed to make ...
...£34.99 from Amazon. Morphy Richards in Yorkshire, give a 2 year guarantee, and the contact details are as follows:- After sales division Morphy Richards Ltd Mexborough, South Yorks. S64 8AJ Helpline (office hours) -8450 777700 Website http://www.morphyrichards.co.uk I cannot comment on the after sales service, as I have never had the need to use them. The machine looks like it wil last for ever. Happy loafing! ...

smudgeybabes 09.02.2007 (14.03.2007) · Read full review
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...a little impractical. But the Morphy Richards 48280 allows you to prepare the ingredients the night before, set the timer and wake up to a world full of the aroma of perfectly baked bread. ABOUT MORPHY RICHARDS Morphy Richards was registered on the 8th July 1939 by Donal Morphy, a salesman, and Charles Richards, an engineer. Their aim was to provide for the new market that had appeared in 1935: providing electrical goods within the average housewife's ...
...Each product that bears the Morphy Richards name comes fundamentally with a two-year guarantee. THE MORPHY RICHARDS 48280 BREADMAKER The bread maker is about 40cm x 50cm x 30cm.The sides are cool-touch and plastic and very easy to clean, and the inside pan comes out making it very easy to insert ingredients, take hot bread and pan out and clean. Very little construction of the bread maker is needed, and all preparation is clearly indicated in the ...

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Overview Having the smell of fresh bread is a wonderful smell and eating fresh bread is absolutely georgous (especially if slightly warm). I wanted a simple bread maker as this was my first one, I purchased it about 2 years ago and in that time used it loads at first and then stopped, took it out the cupbaod a few months later and went mad with fresh bread and then it went back in the cupboard. I then got it out and have been using it to prepare ...
...the oven. I do not have any knowledge of any to compare this with so perhaps there are better ones out there. I am however, pleased with my bread maker (when I get into a fad of making bread). Features and functions There are 12 program settings on this machine, some of them I haven't tried 1 Basic 2 French 3 Whole Wheat 4 Quick 5 Sweet 6 Fast bake 1 7 Fastbake 2 8 Dough 9 Jam 10 Cake 11 Sandwich 12 Extra bake There are also a few buttons ...

bettyboouk 19.02.2007 (20.02.2007) · Read full review
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Well what can I say? This is a brilliant breadmaker! We used to make all our loaves by hand but now we just don't seem to have enough time so I bought this second hand (but never used) for my husband, but we both use it a lot. I couldn't tell you how many loaves we have made but I know it's well into the 50's somewhere. He puts in the ingredients in just before he goes to work and it is ready within Three hours, just in time for my lunch! You can ...
...this breadmaker. All you have to do is choose from the instruction book which type of bread you want to make, put all your ingredients into the pan, select the program from the instruction book, select the weight of your loaf and then what sort of crust you would like, then press start. Basically you push a few buttons and away you go.. You even have a pause in the program for adding nuts or fruit if you want (the breadmaker beeps at this stage) ...

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...use and I purchased this Morphy Richards model at an even lower price than the Hinari from my local Tesco store. So far results are good. The machine produces a variety of sizes of bread (1lb, 1.5lb and 2 lb), with three time options for white bread, three colour settings. The Fastbake programme (1 hour) is very impressive, although it takes industrial quantities of yeast (nearly 2 sachets of Hovis fast acting yeast)! It also turns out of the pan ...
...Compared to the Hinari, which as other reviewers have noted, produces very rustic bread which looks a bit strange (but is very tasty), this produces loaves that look like shop bought loaves. It has a "keep warm" function for the 60 mins after the bake cycle which is good for those of us that oversleep but still like warm bread on a Sunday morning. So far, compared to the Hinari, the bread is moister and a bit on the cakey side. I put a lot of this ...

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