Panasonic SD-YD250 Automatic Bread Maker

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.

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.

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.

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.

This bread maker works wonderfully. The bread comes out fluffy and consistent every time and the timer function makes it great to wake up to fresh bread. It takes no time at all to put the ingredients in and clean up of the unit after the bread is done is very quick and easy as well.