Product Description

Sleek, stylish and simple to use, the Kenwood BM450 breadmaker is full of useful features. Choose from 15 programs to make breads, cakes, doughs or even jams and the touch sensitive controls are easy to use and wipe clean. Additional convenience includes the automatic ingredients dispenser and an internal oven light, allowing you to check baking progress.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #719 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: KENWOOD
• Model: BM450

Manufacturer's Description

Baking healthy, homemade bread couldn’t be easier with the Kenwood BM450 Breakmaker! The Kenwood BM450 has 15 programs for bread, doughs, cakes and jams, and a rapid bake setting for a fresh loaf of bread in as little as 58 minutes. The additional 5 “personal” program settings allow you to set your own timings for each of the stages involved in bread making (pre heat, kneading, rising and baking). Large, medium or small loaves (500g, 750g or 1kg) can easily be prepared depending on your individual needs.

The BM450 has a stylish design with a stainless steel and black glass finish, touch sensitive controls and an LCD panel, which is all easy to wipe clean. The ingredients dispenser has a 125g capacity, and automatically opens and dispenses ingredients at the appropriate time during the bread making cycle. For added convenience, the internal oven light and viewing window, makes it possible to inspect your bread making progress.

This breadmaker also comprises of a 12 hour delay timer, 1 hour keep warm function, convection fan, power failure memory and the unique Kenwood kneader, which has been designed to remove easily from the loaf without leaving a large hole, and also helps to incorporate all of the ingredients from the corners of the pan.

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Dimensions: H: 38.5cm x W: 23.5cm x L: 31.5cm

Weight: 9.52kg

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Customer Reviews

Outstanding quality breadmaker
Bread machines have been around for some time now, and the technology is evolving.
This machine differs from older bread makers in a few distinct ways:
* The mixer paddle does not tend to get stuck in the loaf when you remove the bread from the tin
* The mixer paddle does not make a large gaping hole in the bread loaf (It's much thinner, and has less of a vertical curvature than paddles on older machines I have used)
* A round tin is available as an additional extra so you can enjoy different shaped loaves

Other features which perhaps not all breadmachines have are:
* Incredibly good looks - those pictures don't do it justice
* A light to see inside through the hinged lid, without lifting it and jeopardising your loaf
* Very good quality and comprehensive recipe booklet
* Genuinely good rapid bake setting (creates well risen loaves in less than an hour)
* A large dispenser to add nuts or fruit partway through the cycle (added from the beginning, they get broken into too small pieces by the mixing action)

And of course, it has all of the standard features like a timer setting so that you can set your bread to be ready as you wake in the morning, cake programmes, jam programmes, and the ability to select different sizes and crust colour. If you'd be interested to see the recipes which come with the maker they are available free of charge online from the Kenwood site, I googled for 'kenwood bm450 recipes'.

As a breadmaker it really does an excellent job, the bread it's produced for me has been flawless. As with all new technology I needed to read the instructions first, though the programming of the cycle was not disimilar to other makers I have used.

As other reviewers have noted it is rather large, Amazon have provided dimension in the product specification so you can see if it would fit your kitchen.

I hope you find this helpful in making your bread maker decision!

This bread maker is great!!!
I've only had this bread maker a week, but it's fantastic! I thought long and hard because the smaller Kenwood didn't get great reviews and the Panasonic got rave ones.

Not only does this Kenwood look great (it's by far the best looking I've seen), it's easy to use, and it also performs amazingly well. I've made a number of loaves, both white and brown - and they have all turned out perfectly. It's fantastic to have fresh warm bread for breakfast!

It's early days, but I'm already thinking this bread maker was a great investment and I'm happy recommending it.

Clever Kenwood
This is a top of the range bread-maker. Is it worth the extra expenditure?

Appearance - good. Brushed steel and dark glass. Solid - but big. You need to be sure that you'll use it a lot if kitchen space is an issue.

Instructions and recipe book - both adequate, though the instruction manual would benefit from better presentation. Larger print would be helpful for some crucial information - like how to cancel a programme you didn't mean to choose! Recipes varied. Great to have 3 loaf-size options for all recipes.

The control panel -intimidating initially. There are a lot of options and some aren't self-explanatory. It's easy to make mistakes until you're used to it. After that, it's fine, even straightforward.

In general - everything works just as it should. The bread pan and kneader are satisfactorily solid and completely non-stick. The dispenser - which releases nuts, dried fruit, etc. - works a treat. You can use the internal light to see how the bread is doing and the kneading process is acceptably quiet. The timer is easy to use - but doesn't operate on all programmes including the dough programme. (No setting it early to make pizza or bread dough later - but fine for loaves to be finished in the bread-maker.)

Results - great bread every time so far!

Why you should buy this machine
If you think that you will make lots of different kinds of bread and want to be able to programme the machine to suit non-standard recipes - this is the machine for you.

Why you shouldn't
If your kitchen is on the small side and you are - generally speaking - going to make basic white or wholemeal bread - go for something smaller, simpler and cheaper.