Breadmaker

[QuiteQuietly]

Not my biggest issue (or anyone elses's, I should imagine). I have a panasonic breadmaker which has been used at least once a day for the past 8 or so years. It's brilliant and I wouldn't be without it. But... I am getting really fed up of hacking the paddle out of the bottom of every loaf. It nearly always gets stuck in the loaf when I remove the finished bread, and even when it stays in the pan I still get a gaping wound in the bottom of the loaf.

I don't want to make dough and bake the bread in our normal oven - it uses more electric and is less convenient.

Does there exist a breadmaker which doesn't bake the paddle into the loaf, and is it any good?

Bumping as my Panasonic does the same. Also, the pan is a bit scratched, which I worry about as read it could be unhealthy.

My Panasonic does this - I prefer it when it does as I leave it in and gently remove it when I get to that point in the loaf. You don’t get the gaping hole then!

I’m sure there is one that retracts the paddle but I can’t remember which.

Murphy Richards is the one I was thinking of.

Cuisinart do one too.

I’ve been googling!

Crikey this is SO spooky! I was lamenting this to DH last night. I baked a loaf last week where the paddle disappeared into it so we couldn't use the last 1/3 of the bread because of the hole.

Today I sprayed the paddle with buttery Frylight and it came out with no trouble and hardly any hole (just a smallish one in the bottom & DH always has that crust anyway).