Panasonic SD-YD250 Automatic Bread Maker | 
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| Brand: Panasonic
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $300.00
Buy New: $119.55
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Avg. Customer Rating:  395 reviews
Sales Rank: 69
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 15.4
Dimensions (in): 14 x 13.5 x 9
MPN: SD-YD250
Model: SD-YD250
UPC: 037988958009
EAN: 0037988958009
ASIN: B00005QFL0
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Mixes, kneads, rises, and bakes in 3 loaf sizes, up to 2-1/2 pounds | | • | Settings for white, whole wheat, multigrain, French, quick breads/cakes | | • | 13-hour delay timer makes meal planning easier | | • | Includes recipes for 40 breads and doughs, plus baking tips | | • | Measures 14 by 13-1/2 by 9 inches |
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Amazon.com Review
Providing myriad options, this automatic bread maker embodies the marvels of 21st century electronic convenience and choice. Yes, it mixes, kneads, rises, and bakes bread in three loaf sizes up to 2-1/2 pounds. But its digital controls go much further, offering settings for white, whole wheat, multigrain, and French (crisp crust, open texture) breads, each made according to what's best for that particular style. Other settings permit rapid baking and baking sandwich bread with a soft crust. For raisin (or other dried-fruit) bread, a beeper signals when to add the fruit so it's not crushed during kneading. Crust color--dark or light--can be selected as well. The machine automatically adds yeast at the proper time from a dispenser on the unit's lid. It also bakes non-yeast, quick breads-- like banana and gingerbread--and sweet cakes. And it mixes, kneads, and rises doughs for pizza, focaccia, croissants, and other pastries without baking them. A timer permits the machine to be programmed up to 13 hours in advance so fresh bread or cake is available for breakfast or dinner. For cleanup convenience, the baking pan is nonstick. Clad in metal and packing 550 watts of power, the machine measures 14 inches wide, 13.5 inches high, and 9 inches deep. Its instruction booklet is exceptionally easy to understand and includes recipes for 40 breads and doughs along with an insightful guide to baking basics and illustrated tips for making pastries. --Fred Brack
Product Description
Panasonic SD-YD250 Automatic Bread Baker with Yeast Pro offers you the ability of having delicious bread, freshly prepared and baked right at home, with virtually no fuss or bother. Just place the ingredients in to the SD-YD250 and it does everything else. Non-stick heavy duty pan Temperature safety fuse 10 minute power interruption protection maintains operation for up to 10 minutes in case of possible power failure Color - WHITE
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| Customer Reviews: Read 390 more reviews...
 Great choice January 7, 2009
This was my first attempt at making bread and never really thought it would succeed but now I call myself the best baker in town. I own the machine for about 1 month now. The machine is easy to use as long as you stick to the instructions which are as easy as saying 1,2,3 u will do good. Already tried about 6-7 varieties of bread all had happy endings. the if at all cons are it takes about 4 hours to bake and is a bit noisy during the kneading cycle. But overall a great machine which gives fantastic results.
Fresh bread in the morning. Love it. January 7, 2009
Great breadmaker. Works well. I especially love that my husband loves it. It's like fresh bread just magically appears every week. A few notes. Our first breadmaker Amazon shipped us was cracked because they just threw the breadmaker box into a box twice the size with no packing. Be sure to check yours as soon as it arrives. Fortunately, Amazon has a great returns policy. Also, the lid doesn't lock down. This is something of an issue for us because we have ravenous cats that get into everything. This is our only breadmaker so this may be how all breadmakers are - I have no idea. However, we lock the cats up at night so we can set the timer and bake the bread overnight. Fresh bread in the morning. Love it.
 Disappointing January 7, 2009
I received this bread machine as a Christmas gift. Our old machine is 12 yrs old and the motor is starting to make funny noises, though it still runs, so my husband thought we needed a new one and chose this Panasonic based on several good reviews.
I tried 4 different recipes in the book that came with it, to try out the different operating modes ... basic, whole wheat, pizza dough, and rapid. The 3 that were baked were burned on the bottom half of the loaf and scorched on the bottom, even the 'basic' loaf which I ran on 'light crust'. They came out hard and black. The top half of the loaves were somewhat edible, though one (rapid) was actually uncooked in the center near the top. The pizza dough came out OK but very wet, I had to add a lot more flour just to handle it while I kneaded and rolled it. Once baked into a pizza, it tasted fine but not great.
In all settings, there was a lot of flour left in the bottom corners of the baking pan, that did not get mixed into the dough. During mixing, I had scraped down the sides, but apparently did not reach the unmixed stuff at the very bottom. I don't know if this was the cause of the mixing problems, but the mixing paddle did not fit well onto the shaft. The d-shaped hole in the paddle was quite a bit bigger than the d-shaped motor shaft, so there was a lot of 'play' before the shaft actually turned the paddle. At certain points in the mixing cycle, the machine mixes in sort of a rapid 'pulse' fashion, which did not even move the paddle because of the poor fit.
Overall I was very disappointed. I was even more disappointed when I found out how much this machine cost. My old machine was purchased at an after-Thanksgiving special sale for about $30 and it has been used regularly for 12 years!! I see in others' reviews that no one makes a machine as good as the 'old ones' anymore ... perhaps this is true. This Panasonic cost 4X the old one and didn't make it through 4 uses before showing its poor qualities. I am returning this machine, going back to my old machine for as long as it keeps running, and will continue shopping for a good bread machine.
One other thing that really bugged me about this Panasonic machine is that it is advertised, online and on the box, as having '3 crust settings -- light, med, dark'. They don't tell you those settings are ONLY available in the Basic mode, which I rarely use. I guess if you want a light crust on Whole Wheat, you could pull the bread out early, but that kind of negates the 'automatic' in Automatic Bread Maker.
The Hobo Philosopher January 7, 2009
We bought our first Panasonic bread maker ten or fifteen years ago. It is still going strong. We have tried other bread makers but they don't work. We were afraid our original Panasonic would die on us. So we bought this new one. Now we have two bread makers. The new model is slightly different than our old one - but it works just as well. Using bread flour seems to be one of the secrets. We figure that we are saving around $1.50 to $2.00 on every loaf of bread. And this new machine cost less than half the price of the first one. We love fresh homemade bread. We also use it to make pizza dough and sandwich buns. We're happy.
 Dense Bread Burner January 6, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS PRODUCT.
I bought this for my girlfriend for Christmas. We have used it three times so far trying a variety of different whole wheat type loaves, so far all three have failed to rise properly and have been burnt. We have use other bread makers in the past, and have never had this consistent of a problem. We have tried cutting the expensive new whole wheat flour with unbleached regular flour. We have always use new yeast, but to no avail it seems to always come out extremely short, dense, and burned on the sides. We did use it to make pizza dough once, and that turned out okay so that's why I didn't just give it one star. I think the problem is in the yeast dispensing mechanism.
Now since it has been use, and I bought it just over thirty days ago, I have to deal with the hassle of returning the product to Panasonic for a full refund. Amazon is only offering a partial refund.
I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS PRODUCT.
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