Panasonic SD-2501 bread maker review

The Panasonic SD-2501WTS bread maker is declared by the manufacturer as "Home bakery". This is true because the bread maker has a wide range of programs for working with dough, bread and even jam.

Outwardly, it looks like a classic bakery. It has a square white plastic body with rounded edges. There are two covers on the upper half of the machine: one covers the compartment for nuts and dried fruits, the other covers the container for kneading dough and baking bread.

Its size is quite impressive, both in height and in depth. And this is justified, since the bakery has a deep baking bucket. Bakery products can be baked up to 1 kg 200 grams. For comparison: a loaf from a store weighs less than 500 grams. Therefore, this model needs space. It is advisable to choose a place for her that is comfortable and open.

I am pleased with the elementary control of the oven. There are no difficulties with the menu, since it is also available in translation into Russian. There are seven keys. And they are very easy to understand. You can select a baking program, product size and crust color.

The complete set of this model of the bread maker is rather modest. The kit includes the oven itself, instructions for it with a collection of recipes, scoops for mixing the dough, a measuring spoon: on the one hand a dining room, on the other - a teaspoon, a bucket for baking and a flask designed to measure water.

What can you cook in a bread maker? Naturally, bread. But in addition to it, there is a fairly extensive list of recipes. There are 12 programs for baking bread alone. To prepare the dough - 12 more programs. This also includes making dumplings, fruit in syrup and preserves.

There are a lot of recipes themselves, because all programs can be used differently. For example, consider the “basic” baking program. Using this program you can make egg bread, classic white bread and bread and various types of flour. But these are only standard recipes that come with the unit. And if you turn on the fantasy ?!

Another program "Basic with raisins": the annotation suggests raisin bread recipe, with nuts and honey, with sausage and cheese. There are also plenty of recipes on the Internet. And in stores there are special ready-made mixtures. That is, as many options as your heart desires. By the way, you can even add chocolate or greens to bread. That is, every time you get fresh baked goods with a new taste.

If you wish, you can make diet bread, for example, with raisins or olives. You can bake kulich or bread with kvass. You can cook french bread.

The bread maker is great for people with diabetes as it can bake gluten-free bread. For example, white or corn.

And the dough recipes in general evoke a mixture of surprise and admiration! It: fish pie, pancake dough, dietary with raisins, Danish bagels, croissants, several options pizza dough, dumplings, brushwood, homemade noodles, dough for dumplings and the like. You can't list everything!

There are also recipes for sweet pastries, as well as jam. You can cook blueberry, strawberry, plum, peach, apricot and even frozen berry jam in a bread maker. An interesting recipe is currant jam with pepper.

Those who don't like jam can make fruit in syrup, such as apples, pears, or peaches.

Consider now the cooking process itself. It's perfectly simple. That is, even a child can bake bread in this bread maker. We select the right ingredients, put them into the machine in the correct ratio, then select the appropriate program, the size of the loaf and the color of the bread crust, and then press start.

Consider making bread in a bread machine using an example white bread with nuts and raisins... It will allow us more, and take a closer look at what the dispenser can do, which is a special tray, which is located on the cover of the unit located at the top. It is in it that the filling is put. In our case, these are nuts and raisins. They will enter the dough exactly the second when the dough is kneaded without additives, because the dispenser lid will never open earlier. Thanks to this system, the dough will mix without lumps and will work better.

To prepare our first bakery product, turn the bucket forty-five degrees and remove it from the body of the machine. We define a standard mixing paddle in it and put the components in the required sequence, according to the recipe. First of all, dry yeast. They can be soaked in water beforehand. But you do not need to soak it, since they do not scratch the bottom.

Then we measure the required dose of flour and send it to the bucket. It is better if the flour is sifted. Then add sugar, salt, butter and water. After we close the lid, put the filling in the dispenser.

The next step is setting the program, the size of the product, the crust color and the cooking time. And only then we press "start".

The main advantages of the model:

- weight of finished products;

- dispenser;

- a significant selection of recipes and programs;

- elementary management.

Nikolaeva Yu.

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