Kenwood BM366 Breadmaker, Brushed Stainless Steel
Product Details
- Item Weight: 998 g
- Boxed-product Weight: 8 Kg
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- Item model number: BM366
- ASIN: B004TRPNYS
- Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 20 Jan 2011
By : Kenwood
List Price :
Price : £84.99
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
Our new Optimum bake program produces an Optimum loaf in just 85 minutes or a Premium white loaf in just over 3 hours in Kenwood’s best performing bread maker to date.
Box Contains
Kenwood BM366 Breadmaker, Brushed Stainless Steel
Technical Details
- Fan-assisted baking system
- New ECO bake programme bakes an optimum loaf in just 85 minutes, saving time and energy
- 11 programme settings combining all options from Premium white to cake and jam
- 500g, 750g or 1KG loaf setting
- A full colour recipe book with over 25 recipes provided in pack
Customer Reviews
i wanted to love this breadmaker but on opening the box there were worries!.the unit itself looks great its not too big and sits neatly on the counter, the buttons are sturdy and the lid with a window that you can see through during operation, but it goes down from there the unit itself feels very light compared to other breadmakers ive had and ive had lots!.then i reached inside and took out the breadpan and this is where the worries came in although the details say it makes a 1kg loaf the breadpan is so much smaller than my current breadmaker pan which only makes up to a 800grm loaf and is constanly rising above the sides. its at least an inch shorter and i was worried that the loaf would therefore be alot denser and on trying it im afraid to say it is , not quite a brick but not good and that was with waitrose high spec canadian flour.
the recipe booklet is lovely and in colour but the recipes are complicated and use alot of extra ingredients like egg milk and alot of sugar.
the jam setting is a great laugh it seems to think your fruit needs 15 mins of pummelling , its a virtual puree by the time it heats to set the jam! i like to see fruit in mine.
my advice would be to examine the reveiws on amazon for breadmakers and i think they will point you in the right direction as to which to by, this is not the worst ive used but by a long way not the best, i would compare the results for this one to some of the standard £50 breadmaker models and it not in my opinion worth this premium price.
a big shame as i love kenwood my chef is my pride and joy.
JUST TO ADD AND I ALMOST FORGOT TO ADD THIS THE UNIT ITSELF IS AMZINGLY NOISY DIFFICULT TO HEAR THE RADIO IN THE KITCHEN OVER IT IN OPERATION BUT THE BEEP AT THE END TO SAY ITS FINISHED ISNT AND MAY BE MISSED.
SORRY KENWOOD NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
Of the breadmakers I have used, none have so far topped the Panasonic SD254 series. A couple of years back I tried the Kenwood BM450 - that was huge in size (definitely failing the missus test of minimising usage space in the utility room by a long way) and gave me all sorts of problems in trying to produce a loaf of quality anywhere near that of the Panasonic.
This new Kenwood machine does go some way towards genuinely competing with the Panasonic, but is still not a "Panasonic killer". In size it is comparable with the SD254, in fact a little smaller in height which would enable me to store it underneath the wall cupboards which I cannot do with the SD254 (much to the chagrin of the missus). The time to produce a loaf has been reduced to no more than 3.5 hours on the longest programme, compared to 4 for the BM450 and 5 hours for the SD254 (for wholemeal or part-wholemeal - less for non-wholemeal). I have not had any troubles in baking a half decent loaf with this particular model like I did with the BM450; it works perfectly fine without the use of extra ingredients stipulated in the recipes such as skimmed milk powder and lemon juice which were never needed with the SD254, but the lack thereof seemed to cause loaf quality problems with the BM450.
And yet, it's still not quite there. The loaves produced are still not as soft and light as those of the SD254, but are denser, especially so for wholemeal loaves which, as produced by this machine, are quite "chewy". To some extent this is clearly by design, as although the largest loaf uses 600g of flour compared to 550g for the SD254, the pan is smaller by about 1cm in height along with losing some more volume in comparison due to the curved underside. Also, the loaf does not rise as much relative to the top of the pan as in the SD254; I suppose that part of this at least may be down to the shorter cycle time.
In conclusion, I'm not sure whether the gain of 1.5 hours less time to have a finished loaf is really enough to set off against the superior eating quality of the SD254's bread. Whilst Kenwood appear to be closing the gap, I still think that, assuming that their newer models are as good as the out-of-production SD254, Panasonic remains the manufacturer to go for.
Kenwood BM366 Breadmaker, Brushed Stainless Steel
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