If I was to buy a new breadmaker which one would you recommend?

[BarbEDahl]

Currently looking at the Panasonic one but with or without the raisin dispenser thing........or another one completely?

I have had the Panasonic, with raisin dispenser, for several years and I think it's excellent, but there might be other good ones on the market that I don't know about.

ditto panasonic (have seen these threads before on here - have a search, and they always say panasonic)

hth

I have a pansonic one and use it almost every day. It is fab, I also looked on here before buying a new one.

Do I need the raisin dispenser one? I can get the other one for £60, is it worth £30 for a raisin dispenser?

I have one with the raisin dispenser, and I use it all the time, but then I like bread with bits in it.

Depends whether you want to dispense raisins! Look around for deals - I got mine for £75 from Amazon (was £100 elsewhere at the time).

Just got Panasonic one for my bday - need to get the book out to see what to try first !

The raisin thingy doesn't just dispense raisins though - I put seeds, cheese, bacon bits, sun dried toms etc in mine.

When I bought my Panasonic it was only an extra £10 for the raisin model. I can truthfully say the one occasion I baked raisin bread it was very impressive. It is a good breadmaker compared to my last one, makes better bread and quieter to run.

Can't you just add them later though? Do I need to spend £30 extra just for the machine to do it? Why can't they be added at the beginning?

Suspect they'd get smashed up during kneading?

Another vote for the Panasonic with raisin dispenser.

We bought ours a couple of months ago after our old breadmaker died -all feedback on here recommends the Panasonic and the reviews are excellent.

To begin with though I thought it was awful as we were getting really crap results however I found that it said on the packet of yeast, in very tiny print, 'not suitable for bread machines' - DP had bought the wrong one. Once we had the correct yeast we had excellent results!

The raisins have to be added later or they get smashed up during the first kneading, according to the instruction book.

It is not essential to have a dispenser, but obviously more convenient. If you don't have one, the bread maker beeps to let you know when to add the raisins/nuts or whatever.

I have a Panasonic and make cinnamon and raisin bread - I think I have to add the raisins after about 50 minutes.

Panasonic always come out best in the tests. I used to have a cheaper model (Morphy Richards Fastbake) which made excellent bread too but the Panasonic is much more solidly built.

Its not worth paying extra for the raisin dispenser. It dosent do anything that the basic model dosent do and Ive read reviews which say that the dispenser thingy is a bit unreliabe in operation.