Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12929 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Morphy Richards
• Model: 48271

Manufacturer's Description
The smell of baking bread is a delight to the senses and now baking your own bread is easy. Simply place all the ingredients in the non stick bread pan and the breadmaker will automatically mix, knead, prove and bake a loaf in as little as 88 minutes. The breadmaker has a number of features including three curst settings, allowing you to bake bread just the way you like it. A recipe book is also included to help get you started.

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Customer Reviews

a lot of good features
I like the looks of this breadmaker, a little large for some maybe but with some good features. there is a delay timer so i can set it to run at night for when i'm on early shifts, touchscreen controls on top, a light that can be turned on and off so you can see through the viewing window, this one will start mixing as soon as you press start, where the panasonic 254/255 just sits doing nothing for a while before mixing, there is 12 programs apart from size [1/1.5/2lb] and colour of crust settings. The bowl needs to be lightly greased/oiled each use before adding ingredients and is non stick, a little less sturdy than the panasonic bowl but still good. The book has a selection of recipies in it specifically for this mixer and the ingredients are listed in the order that they must be added, and will also do jam.
The reason i bought this one, the panasonic with the delay timer [sd255 model] cost £30 more when i purchased this, and the offer price on the morphy richards made it much better value, plus the morphy is better looking in stainless.
Have had a morphy before but it was a cheaper model and results were very hit and miss with that one, this one gave me great bread from 1st use, have only had one failure due to trying to use the machine to make dough then baking in oven but did not rise well.
Have been using the cheaper brands, eg asda fast acting yeast and tesco skimmed milk to keep cost of ingredients down but still get top results. stick to the quantities in the book not whats on the back of the yeast sachet and water 1 part boiled to 5 parts cold, not too hot. The hole in the bottom of the bread left by the paddle is a lot smaller in this machine than the last morphy and so far the paddle has stayed in the pan not the bread.
Bad points, the power cord is not very long, measured it at 28" to plug, on an electrical item this size i would expect twice as much. the stainless looks great but shows up fingerprints easily and when making bread things are often messy. Also when new, before 1st use, you have to turn it on bake cycle for 10 mins to burn any residue from the heating element, but mine gave off quite a lot of smoke for all 10 mins so i repeated it for another 10 mins before it fully cleared.
I love the bread im baking and it tastes great but best of all its home made, so i will get some serious use out of this purchase and it will not get used about twenty times then put in a cupboard like the last one.

update time. i have probably made about 100 or more 2lb loaves now and have a few tips. i have done 98percent 2lb white loaves and find that the quality is down to the flour i am using. I only use three main flours now, alinsons premium, hovis extra strong and carrs bread flour, the doves is too expensive for me. I put in 1.5 cups water 1st then 4tbs milk powder, then 2tbs suger + 1tbs soft light brown unrefined cane sugar, 2 tsp salt then 4tbs oil, sometimes just sunflower but i also mix with olive oil or grapeseed oil occasionally. i then stir these with a wooden spoon untill its a nice milky fluid. next i put the bowl on a digital scale and measure in 580 grams of flour, often 45 grams of this is doves spelt flour. i add 1 and a half tsp fast yeast or very slightly more. the milk powder and salt are the igredients that make the bread full of small holes, and reducing the salt will cause bread to have large holes in it. I choose the lighter crust setting and start the machine, at the start of mix i use the wooden spoon to help the flour off the sides of the bowl and into the ball of dough but carefull not to get the spoon trapped by the paddle. my bread is now rising to within an inch of the lid as i have got better at it. Have used one third alinsons seed and grain flour which i mix with two thirds white bread flour and 1.75 tsp yeast to give a great tasting bread. have had the clip on the underside of the bowl come off once, so i eased it back on and carefully pinched it tight with a pair of long nose pliars, then put on a small amount of superglue all over the clip and sprinkle some cold water on it to make the glue go off. the clip has not come off again.

Morphy Richards Accents Breadmaker
Bought because it is a WHICH "best buy" and so far it hasn't disappointed. I make about four large loaves a week on average and have found that it makes the same types of bread reliably and consistently, though this does also rely on reasonably accurate measuring of the ingredients. It is a bit noisy when mixing the ingredients, but not excessively so and not enough to make me not use it. The only slightly annoying point is the fact that the mixing, (which doesn't retract or fold over on this model) leaves a fair sized hole in the base of the loaf, but I can live with that.
The recipes provided make good tasting bread, work well and are easy to follow, with some scope for modifying the amounts of salt and sugar used.

Tastefully done
Having needed a replacement for my old and trusted Breadman, I followed the recommendations of Which?, and went for taste as the prime factor in choosing another machine. I have not been disappointed. Comments about size and weight of the machine are insignificant compared to the fact that it produces really excellent bread. The machine looks good, controls are simple, the bread comes of the paddle easily, and it isn't really any bigger than rivals. An essential piece of equipment in these days where real bakeries are so few and far between. Get one and don't look back.