Toastmaster 1148X Fast Bake 2-Pound Horizontal Bread Machine Review

My husband and I chose this breadmaker as a 10 yr. anniversary gift from his employer. I have used it only 2 days and I have two main complaints about it.One, I don't like that this is a vertical machine, I like the top of the bread to be like the bread found in grocery stores. Two, on the basic medium cycle, the bread got way too dark and I had to turn off the machine even though it had 32 minutes left to bake the bread.My son said the bread was burning. Who knows what the bread would have looked like if I had left it in the machine until the end of the cycle!
The recipe book is easy to understand and has a lot of information; I suggest that you read it a few times all the way through before you start to make bread.I have not used any of the cycles except Basic Medium and French.My husband and I feel that we will only use the 1 lb. and 1.5 lb. setting, because when I made the French Bread on the 2 lb. setting, the bread was not dense like normal french bread--it had a lot of holes due to the need to expand the dough to make a bigger loaf.I made the second loaf of bread--the one I had to remove early--on the 1.5 lb. setting, and it was fine, nice and dense.The machine is noisy when mixing the bread, but that doesn't bother me.The inner pan is very easy to clean, though it cannot be immersed in water/dishwasher.Bread is very easy to remove from the pan.
Lastly, I found that as soon as I start the machine, it mixes, but I have to open the lid and give the machine a little help by scraping the flour from the corners and bottom with a rubber spatula.The blade does not get all the flour from the corners and the bottom.The flour will lay there even after the machine starts mixing the dough ball back and forth. This doesn't bother me either, I don't mind scraping the flour; I'd rather do that than have lumps of flour in the bread or flour on the outside of the loaf.
Since we didn't have to pay for this, this breadmaker is an ok machine. It does what it is supposed to do. My husband is a fresh bread lover, so he is pleased with the bread. However, if you are paying $100 and up for a breadmaker, look at other models first.

Click Here to see more reviews about: Toastmaster 1148X Fast Bake 2-Pound Horizontal Bread Machine



Buy cheap Toastmaster 1148X Fast Bake 2-Pound Horizontal Bread Machine now