How to choose a bread machine: details about all the details

How did great when the table is always a fresh, fragrant, but still warm bread. Acquiring a breadmaker, such a pleasure can be obtained at least every day.

What can modern electric BREAD? As it turned out, a lot. Bake different kinds of bread, kneading dough, bake muffins, cook the jam, jam and yogurt. What has all this to make it completely your own, it is only necessary to download all of the ingredients and choose a program.

But not so easy when it comes to selection. Bread varieties in the stores of home appliances are so many that get lost in time. Different manufacturers, dimensions, materials, and feature sets, respectively, price. About how to choose a bread maker in all of this diversity, read our article.

Design

Structurally, the bread machine all have roughly the same structure:

• a working chamber with heating elements and the rotation system kneaders;
• Protective casing with a lid;
• bowl with a spatula for mixing;
• control Panel;
• Accessories (depending on additional features)

Extras included: measuring cup, spoon, and a book with recipes.

Bread Maker in size comparable to the microwave. By weight are retained in the middle range of 5-6 kg plus or minus 1 kg. Weight will depend on the amount of baking, which is capable of delivering the furnace and from the housing material.

Most often, but not always, the furnace lid has a viewing window. Through it is possible to visually monitor the cooking process.

Sometimes the structure is provided a removable cover. Since the washing device with such a function is much more convenient, not to disregard such a complement to their technique.

When buying look at the information the LCD. It should be sufficient in size so that you can see it on all the evidence. Pleasant addition, when the display is backlit, it allows you to control the bread maker in a darkened room or a dark corner.

housing material

The housing may be made of a heat resistant plastic, stainless steel or a combination of these two materials. Much more durable stainless steel, and evenly warms up during baking. Steel case looks stylish, but it is easy to imagine leave fingerprints, slightly violates the aesthetic appearance. It is worth such a technique much more expensive than furnaces with plastic housing.

Less wear-resistant plastic, but lower in price, not seen in the assignment of fingerprints, and just easier to clean.

The volume of baking

Something with which we must decide at once, so it is with the volume produced by your oven bread. Baking weight at the output of different models ranging from 500 to 1600 grams. For a family of one or two people have enough bread machine with a capacity of 500-750 grams of bread. For a family of 3-4 people loaf weight should be 800-1300 grams. And if the number of people actively consuming bakery products more than four, you need Breadmaker with access to the 1500-1600 grams.

Power

Displacement baking capacity and linked directly. The greater weight than the product, it may be faster to issue the furnace, the greater its capacity, which ranges roughly the same reference numerals as the volume - from 500 to 1600 watts.

If the cooking time for your special role does not play, then you have enough of the furnace with a capacity of 500-600 Watt. Such a roll is prepared for at least 3 hours. If you want faster, you dream to have more features, the power of your installation will be baking 800-1100 watts. If you also need bread jams and yogurt and all this quickly, whether you like it or not, the stove will start setting power of 1200 W and continue on.

According to the results of your electricity meter readings will be a month to recruit more than normal speed depending on the power consumed by the device. About it and think about it, if you do not want to overpay once again.

The shape and material of the work bowl

Bowl bread machine is often called a bucket of similarity with the latter. Just like bucket has a bowl shackle for which is lowered and removed from the furnace body.

Distinguish aluminum and steel bowl. First found in cheaper models are not very environmentally friendly to health and are not as long as steel. On the other hand, they reduce the price of the final cost of equipment.

Any bowl has a non-stick coating. It can be rough and fluoride, or all known - Teflon. Rough and fluoride - is the latest generation of coating, it is much more resistant Teflon analogues to mechanical and thermal loads.

Traditionally, the cup has a rectangular shape of a standard loaf of bread. If the furnace is provided baguette cooking mode, the device equipped with an additional form under 4 bagetnye rolls. It should be noted that if the loaf will be baked automatically, this story does not take place with a baguette. For the baguette after preparing the dough need to get, divided into portions and arrange on the forms. After that, put in the bread maker and to include baking mode.

The same actions will have to make and bake muffins in special, divided into a square shape.

There are buckets, divided into two parts. They conveniently bake small bread ordinary bread or cakes at Easter.

A bucket is always included kneader. Bowl for loaves weighing 1.5 kg, typically has 2 mesitelya.

A mating bucket assembly should ideally be metallic. Across low-end models, where the plastic meets the node. Nothing good will come of it. If you use the oven is very active, approximately every six months, you will have to buy a new bucket. And its price is half the cost of the entire furnace, and sometimes more. Here, the main thing, not a bad bargain at the first purchase.

control type

Furnaces have to choose one of two types of control - touch or push-button. Touch unreliable electricity at the races, but if you connect the furnace through a voltage regulator, the problems can be avoided. Yes, and look after the touchpad easier - rubbed the cloth all.

Buttons are always considered to be reliable. In any case, to power surges. But with them it may happen trouble, if you often press their hands stained with salt, sugar, oil and other products. Over time, the button will start to get stuck.

functions Bread

Now the most interesting - about the possibilities of working electrical Bread.

Number baking mode varies in modern technology from 3 to 25. The more programs and functions, the equipment will be more expensive. Only going to bake the most simple white bread, choose Breadmaker with a minimum feature set from 4 to 7. Do you want to prepare more varieties of bread, carefully examine your needs and capabilities of Bread.

The most common types of bread, bread machine available: white bread, rye, French, gluten-free, whole wheat buns and pastries. Gluten-free bread is important for those who have an individual intolerance to gluten. In this mode, you can make bread from rice, buckwheat or barley flour.

user mode

If you like to experiment for yourself, then you need an oven that can not only choose from ready-made automated programs, but also allows you to customize the batch mode, proofing and baking. Some models are available for storing up to 5 of your favorite programs.

Function mixing / baking

Most often, all functions are performed Breadmaker itself - knead the dough, rasstaivaet and then bakes. But it is very useful when the stove batch function is a separate function. This will allow you to mix the dough, which you can use out of the bread machine. For example, the dough for pasta, pies, dumplings, chebureks, pizza.

On the other hand, well, when the oven allows you to bake a purchased or kneaded dough personally, bypassing the automated batch.

The extent of crackling

All Bread three typical degree of browning: light, medium, dark. What kind of love, and a select before you click "Start".

accelerated baking mode

Almost all of the baking units have a similar mode. It reduces cooking times to 2 times from 4 hours to 2. True bread is a more dense due to the reduction of time to raise the dough. If you need even faster, look for a model with a regime "quick baking." One hour, and the bread is ready.

temperature control function

If you can not eat it immediately after baking bread, and to use still want hot, Stump purchase furnace with such a function. Depending on the model furnace would keep the finished product warm from 60 minutes to 3 hours after the end of cooking.

delay start timer

A handy feature that will make it possible to obtain a hot flavored bread for your arrival from work or in the morning after sleep. Such a function is almost all furnaces. If you want fresh bread in the morning note - delayed start should be at least 8-10 hours. The maximum value of the timer, which occurs at the moment among the Bread - 16 hours.

Weight selection function of the finished bread

There are universal model, where you can adjust the weight of the loaf. Usually, these are three modes on three specific weight. For example, 500 c 1000 c. and 1500 grams. The control panel weight can be indicated by Latin letters: M, L, XL. Compliance with specific letters of the weight specified in the instructions to the device.

protective functions

An important function - protection against voltage surges. Only it's not about breakages. Feature allows you to memorize the cooking program at a temporary power outage, and after its submission will continue to work from the point where it was stopped. However, the memory margin is small - from 7 to 15 minutes. Although there breadmakers with exceptional reserve memory to 1 hour.

If something went wrong, and the furnace heated above the desired temperature to you, or you simply forgot it in time to turn off the function "overheat protection," save the situation and shut off the furnace itself.

Protection of children is necessarily necessary, where there are small children. This feature after turning on the device will block one of two things: either the cover or the control panel. In this case, the child and self-harm is not cause, and will not be able to change the program accidentally.

Additional functions

For those who love baking with additives, bring convenience to the presence of a special furnace design dispenser. So called capacity, which bombarded with additional ingredients (nuts, seeds, dried onion, raisins, poppy seeds, spices, etc.). At the end of kneading Breadmaker automatically open the dispenser and all the ingredients fall into the dough, as much as possible while maintaining its appearance and flavor. If such a dispenser is not in your oven, you have to be next to the stove, the code it will beep for manual loading of additional products.

If you often cook yeast dough, and even with the delayed start, you'll need a bread machine model, which is built dispenser yeast. He keeps the yeast dry until such time as the cooking process starts.

In some models, there is a system of air circulation within the furnace. This creates an environment as similar as possible with baking ovens in the village.

On the possibilities of making yogurt, jam or preserves, we have already spoken. Yogurt is prepared in a special plastic container, which comes complete with a bread machine. A jam or jam Breadmaker cooks in the same bucket, where he bakes bread.

recommendations

1. Even small deviations in grams and in the sequence of filling products may lead to spoiled the finished product. Therefore, we recommend to buy kitchen scales and strictly comply with the recipe.
2. Use for cooking only fresh products. Otherwise can the same incident, and that the wrong recipe.
3. As shown by experiments with different bread machine, taste you get almost the same, if you use the same recipe. Therefore, when buying look at the reliability of the models and functions.
4. There is a furnace, which is very noisy work when mixing. It is unlikely that you will like this, especially when everyone is asleep. Find out with the purchase of noise, which publishes the oven. It should be no more than 55-60 dB. There are models that work quietly, but at the end of cooking emit a very loud signal. If cooking is at night, be prepared for him to wake up.
5. Follow the basic rules for setting the oven. Do not place it close to the wall, as the air vents should be provided with a free zone for the outflow of hot air. Do not put close to heating appliances.