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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
A little bakery in a box; even gluten-free and low-carb!
September 25, 2010
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Breadman BK2000B 2-1/2-Pound Bakery Pro Bread Maker with Colla ible Kneading Paddles and Automatic Fruit and Nut Di e er (Kitchen)
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We have a non-wheat eater at home, and we are not alone. Many people these days have found out they are intolerant to gluten, and others eat low-carb breads while losing or maintaining weight. Standard bread machines make bread by mixing, kneading and then baking breads with some variatio of timing and temperature, but generally they have not been able to handle ecialized bread mixes such as gluten free. That is, until now. This machine has additional cycles for ecialized breads, so now you can use gluten free mixes, gluten free flour blends, elt, and low carb recipes.
The Breadman BK2000B has just about everything a bread baker could want. There are 14 programs on board, including gluten free, low carb, sweet, whole wheat, as well as dough only, BAKE only (use commercial dough, or perha a dough you froze earlier) and jam, where you can heat and stir preserves. In addition, the paddles that mix the dough in the machine colla e, meaning you won't be pulling those out of the bottom of the loaf after it's baked, and if THAT weren't fabulous enough, there are three pa . One is a 2.5 pound standard long loaf and there are two smaller coffee-can sized 1 pound loaves if you want to make give-aways or if your family eats le bread and you want to freeze a loaf and serve a loaf. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention, there is a nut or fruit di e er for stirring in raisi , cra erries and the like at the proper time. No need to run in and add them during the cycle yourself.
I know, I know, you are salivating at this point and you haven't even baked your first loaf. What do you choose to make first? Cra erry nut tea bread? (no yeast), a jam out of the apricots from Mom's tree? We chose to make Spelt Bread first, because it is wheat free (though not, repeat NOT, gluten free. We can tolerate elt but celiac sufferers ca ot.) Spelt requires low kneading as the gluten of elt falls apart with rough handling. The Breadman BK2000B employs the Gluten Free setting for elt--as gluten free bread and elt all require le kneading time on that part of the cycle.
But first, let's talk about the "OOBE" or out-of-box-experience. Here's what comes with the unit and what you receive:
1. The bread machine itself. It's large. Maybe 20 inches long (deep.) It's longer than it is wide and it's an attractive glo y black (won't show heat staining as white machines can do after time.) The controls are on the front of the top, push butto , not the membrane type but actual butto , with an LED di lay. The lid lifts back. There is a vent at the very back top for the heat. The top has a silver brushed trim. This is an attractive, serious-looking a liance.
The fruit/nut di e er doubles as a vent. On top, in back, is a vented compartment. You lift it off, drop in your fruit or nuts, and then when the time comes during the dough cycle to stir in these additio , the bottom ope up to drop in the ingredients and then stays open to provide venting for the heat. A very clever design.
The cycles not only include sweet breads, whole wheat, gluten-free and low carb, but have quick cycles for some of the breads, in case you want to eed up your proce . I was asked "why a bake-only" cycle; it's po ible you might have a sourdough or a commercial dough, neither of which would go through any of the dough cycles but could be baked in the breadmaker nonethele .
2. Comes with a measuring cup and a sliding measuring oon for salt and yeast.
3. Three baking bucket one long for the 2.5 lb and two of the smaller for 1 l .
4. The paddles (coated with non stick)
5. An i truction book. The book has the operating i tructio on one side. Flip it over, and there is a recipe book including low carb and gluten free recipes, some from scratch with various non-gluten flours and one for standard gluten free bread mix as you can find in most grocery stores these days. The book is iral-bound so it will stay open on your counter.
I made a standard white bread from the recipe book. It was a 2 lb loaf that rose up beautifully, but needed to be baked longer (the dark setting would be better.) I just added 10 minutes using the bake only cycle after the initial baking had ended. The colla ible paddles are only slightly good; one colla ed, one stuck in the loaf in the open position. I think soaking them before using, in a light vegetable oil might help in future. Will be testing this.
We made my standard elt bread: recipe as follows:
1-1/4 cu boiling water with 1/4 cup oatmeal soaked in it until cooled (put in pan, let soak until lukewarm)
1/4 cup blackstrap mola es
2 T . melted butter
1 tea oon salt
4 cu whole elt flour
2-1/2 tea oo bread machine yeast
optional; t golden flax seeds soaked with the oatmeal.
Bake on gluten free setting. Makes a 2lb loaf.
MELBA TOAST: If you have stale ends of bread, let's say an inch or three of the end of a loaf and you want to be thrifty yet make a new fresh loaf, take the stale bread and cut it 1/4 inch thick, then halve the slices. Butter them lightly, rinkle with sesame seeds and bake at 475 F in your oven on a cookie sheet. This takes about 5-7 minutes or until golden brown and you CANNOT leave them unattended. Keep checking. When toasted, take carefully off the sheet immediately with a atula. This is true Melba toast and it's really delicious. Serve with sou or breakfast with coffee or tea. Store leftovers (hahah) in a cookie tin.
This machine is really fantastic. We are so thrilled to be able to make our wheat-free breads. Will update this review with how it works for jam and for non- elt, non-wheat flours, which we use le often. So far, I give this a huge thum up as it does EVERYTHING you need for baking.
*** UPDATE, NOV.2010. We use this almost daily. Only i ue is that a small plastic peg used to hold the ring latch on the fruit/nut di e er was defective and broken, so the di e er doe 't work. Bad design to use a thin plastic peg to hold a screw. And would be a nuisance to have to pack the whole thing up and return for replacement, so we'll live with it. I still give this high marks.
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Dec 12, 2010 8:50:29 AM PST
Thank you for your wonderful review.
Can you please tell me that the interior of the baking pa are made of.
I want to avoid Teflon coating due to the health concer .
Looking forward toward your re o e
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It's coated non stick as are most bread machines. However, this is the GEORGE coating and they claim if used at the heat of the breadmachine, it is " afe but they are not saying it is pfoa-free. So I'd pa on it until they can version us with a PFOA-Free coating. Thanks for bringing this up.
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