Discount 🤩 West Bend Hi-Rise Bread Maker Programmable Horizontal Dual Blade With 12 Programs Including Gluten Free, 3-Pound, Gray 😀

6 reviews for Discount 🤩 West Bend Hi-Rise Bread Maker Programmable Horizontal Dual Blade With 12 Programs Including Gluten Free, 3-Pound, Gray 😀

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Discriminating Buyer – February 25, 2022

   UPDATE 3I’ve found it’s best to bake on the light setting, especially if you don’t take it out as soon as it’s baked and it goes into the warm mode. It has a tendency to over bake the bread, especially if it has a high sugar content. My favourite recipes that I found online are Hawaiian bread, Portuguese sweet bread, an Amish bread and Pain de Mie. The recipes from the manual aren’t bad, just your regular type of bread. Our household has dairy and nut allergies so I just use olive oil, margarine, and soy milk (powdered and liquid) for recipes that use butter and milk and milk powder and while I don’t know what the original dairy would have tasted like, the breads made with the substitutes have been good.UPDATE 2I’ve marked one side of the pan and that’s the side of the pan that I align with the left side if facing front all the time. If you don’t move the spindles when you take off the paddles then it will easily align. I soak my pan with water inside (not outside) so paddles are easy to remove.I bought a smaller bread size machine for making smaller than 2 lb loaves and realized that the West Bend tends to overbake the outside so best to use the light crust setting. This pan and paddles have held up better than the paddle of my newer machine which has lost some of the coating on the paddle in spots but the manufacturer sent me a replacement.UPDATEI’ve found an easy way to align the paddles so it fits into the machine easily. if you look at the bottom of the pan, you will see three small circles – looks like places where the bottom is attached, two on one side and one on the other. You have to align one of the paddles so that the tip of it is just touching the single round circle, then align the second so the position is similar that is both facing the same direction. You should then be able to add ingredients and snap pan in place. It works for my pan, hoping all pans are the same.I’ve tried the delay start and that’s worked. I’ve also tried the custom, but there’s one setting that you can’t make 0, I think it was the second knead so if you only want one knead you are out of luck.I bought a used Oster breadmachine to see if I would like it – this was actually my second, my first bread machine I returned because it wouldn’t turn on – many years ago and that turned me off the idea. Surprisingly the Oster worked well – it’s one that makes 2.5lb breads but it’s vertical. I’ve made numerous breads with it and most came out especially the ones in the manual. I wanted a more horizontal type loaf and also a larger bread. This machine is a lot smaller, just a little deeper than the Oster, but shorter. The pan is surprisingly small. I compared with the Oster and it’s about 1.5″ longer than the Oster’s height.The Oster’s display is easier to see because it’s red lights, this one is standard black LCD display so it is hard to see in dim light. I’m trying it with the basic white 3lb bread recipe from the book. I had to add about 3 tablespoons of water to get it to form a ball – I used my own measuring cups and soy milk powder due to milk allergies, as well as oil instead of butter or margarine. The bread came out okay like regular bread. The light setting was good enough to get the bread nicely browned.I had slight difficulty getting on the paddles because the difference in shape is so slight it’s hardly noticeable until you try to get it on! There is a very slight flat edge and this has to be aligned properly with the paddle’s internal flat edge. The Oster has two distinct flat edges. The paddles are a lot smaller than the Oster’s but they do a good job of kneading the dough. I found though that the dough tended to end up a little more on one side than the other – the manual says it’s because it needed more water. I found it easy to insert the pan, just pushed it down straight and the counter it’s on is quite high – not standard height. It’s quiet too. The Oster can get a bit noisy and recently it’s started to squeal sometimes.The manual is very skimpy on recipes, especially for the 3 lb size. I think there is one only and the rest 2.5 lb and not many of that either! The Oster came with several pages of recipes. The layout for instructions on how to setup the machine for baking is lacking – buried in a paragraph. The sequence is menu (to select 1 to 12), then color, then loaf size (MCL for easy recall). This is where the Oster’s manual excelled, for every recipe it tells you exactly what setting to use. I don’t know what the newer Oster manuals are like, but the old one is excellent.From what I’ve read online, you can’t just double a 1.5 lb recipe to get a 3 lb bread, you have to adjust the yeast which is why it would have been nice to have more 3 lb recipes. With the recipe given the yeast was the same for a 2.5 lb loaf in the Oster.The true test would be to compare the same bread recipe baked in both I suppose.UPDATEI used the sweet bread setting and put in the ingredients for a 2lb banana bread from the Oster 5844 manual. The Oster has a longer cycle by about an hour. The Oster came out but I had to put the Westbend on the bake cycle since it wasn’t baked at the end and this ended up carrying it to the same time that the Oster finished. The interior texture was the same as that from the Oster but the outside was hard. I had difficulty getting it out, I had to use a spatula and pry and then make space on the side for my fingers to get under the loaf to pry it out! The white bread I made before came out easily.I will try a comparison using the sandwich bread recipe in the Westbend and put it in the Oster and see how it comes out. With the Oster I can most often put in any recipe that I’ve found online and it works, the Westbend looks like it might be a bit finickier.UPDATEI made sandwich bread using the recipe in the book on Medium crust and it was good. I had trouble putting in the bread pan and realized it was because in washing the pan some bread had stuck to it so I rotated the spindle and it moved the location of the spokes on the bottom. I had to rearrange them so that it would fit between the uprights in the machine and once that was done it fit.

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   Rated 4 out of 5

   Rebecca – May 4, 2022

   I bought this one based on independent reviews I read and saw. It’s a good machine and makes up to 2.5 lb loaves nicely.The only things I think could be better is the ease of cleaning it and the ease of placing the pan back in the unit. The dough seems to stick to the pan pretty good and I thought it would be a little more “non-stick,” but it just takes a little longer to clean the dough out of it. Also, some marks to line up the pan and unit would be useful but I can do this with a small paint pen/sharpie marker.The only other thing to note is that it does not have a “warm up” allowance. So if you take your ingredients straight out of the fridge or cooler, you will want to add about a 30 minutes or so delay for them to come to room temperature to help the bread and yeast process properly.Overall, I’m pleased with the performance and value of this machine.

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   Rated 4 out of 5

   Charlotte Cherryholmes – July 14, 2022

   Love this machine…….. Don’t be afraid to try new breads. I’m 73 and the 2 and 2.5 loans are perfect for me & my brother for the (7 day) week. And if I had a family of 4? I’d most likely make one on Saturday. And one on Wednesday. But, I’d use that handy timer too. Put everything in at night,set timer, wake up to fresh bread. I’d advise you to get a cutting board for cutting slices.. So the pieces are even??. I must admitt any errors made? lol Were all my fault lol So, I made little cheet sheet recipe index cards …..And yes, for some, buying start up yeast,flour,nuts dry milk, is a little pricey……. But, having fresh bread is well worth the expense………. Again, well worth the investment…… My average loaf is about .65 cents a loaf. And with the price of everything stupidly high???. Having bread is important to me.My 5 year old great grandson made his parents a loaf yesterday??. So, even a 5 year old can make bread?? We also made peach jam?PS. Don’t open the lid lol. No matter how much you want to see inside lol. The bread will go poooof?And let it cool off before cutting it

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Kristen in Florida – July 16, 2022

   I am not a bread machine newbie. I bought this model for a larger, 3 lb. traditional loaf. The recipes included are all for 2.5 loaves – why? I looked only and for today’s bread, I decided to make the dough only and then bake in the oven. I found a 3 lb. recipe – that rose so much that I pushed the top of the machine up. Thank goodness I didn’t bake it! Note to self, punch down after the last knead, don’t rely on the dough buzzer to go off after rising. I do love all of the options and am looking forward to trying some of the recipes in the book after I buy powdered milk as they all seem to require it. I’ll update my review in a few months.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   JoshLori – September 13, 2022

   I’ve been using this bread maker since May. Cooks great, although I’ve noticed that my loaves are not getting as dark as they once were. Also all of the print on the top that gives the number selection is rubbing right off. I like that there is 2 paddles and the loaf cooks horizontally, which make it much easier to get the paddles out before cooking. The non-stick coating on the paddles is coming off as well. Everything is hand washed so it must just be from use, which is at least 3-4 times a week.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Darlene R. – December 5, 2022

   I’ve had 3-4 prior West Bend Breadmakers (since 1995) – loved them until they wore out.This breadpan is a cheaper quality than the old and I HATE that EVERY LOAF has 1 or both paddles baked into the bread & not locking into their posts to remain in pan requiring long-nose pliers to remove!!! Very frustrating. My old West Bends tended to “lock” into position and I never needed to add veggie oil which did not do anything to rectify the situation.