Product Description
The Hamilton Beach 29881 HomeBaker™ 2-Pound Breadmaker will fill your kitchen with the beloved aroma of freshly baked bread, and just wait til you taste it! Best of all, this bread maker is perfect for today's gourmet recipes. Simply add ingredients, select the cycle, and press start. This machine is designed so that you can add ingredients at various stages in the process, and it even includes an extra paddle so you can make another batch when the first paddle's in the dishwasher. You'll appreciate the instructions and recipes included, too. Settings even include accommodations for gluten and whole wheat flours. Prepare to impress your family, friends, and definitely yourself! About Hamilton Beach One of the country's leading distributors of small kitchen appliances, Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. sells over 35 million appliances every year. The company's most famous brands -- Hamilton Beach, Eclectrics, Proctor Silex, and TrueAir -- are found in households across America, Canada, and Mexico. Hamilton Beach takes immense pride in their product quality, wide variety of options, superior customer service, and brand name strength and remains committed to serving customers through Good Thinking applied to the style and function in all of their small electric appliances. Make bread without preservatives or trans fats. Delay timer for adding ingredients at various times. Nonstick pan for easy cleanup in dishwasher. Includes extra kneading paddle. Audible reminder to add fruits/nuts.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #13688 in Kitchen & Housewares
- Size: 2 LB
- Color: White
- Brand: Hamilton Beach
- Model: 29881
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 13.00" h x13.50" w x16.75" l,20.00 pounds
Features
- Make bread without preservatives or trans fats
- Delay timer for adding ingredients at various times
- Nonstick pan for easy cleanup in dishwasher
- Includes extra kneading paddle
- Audible reminder to add fruits/nuts
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
129 of 131 people found the following review helpful.
By Shefeline
I've never owned a bread machine until this one as I had heard that only the fancy $200-300 ones worked well. Well this one works GREAT and it hardly breaks the bank. I've used it now for several months and have gotten perfect bread every time - soft and fluffy. A few times I even totally messed up the recipe and the bread still came out edible, just not as great as usual. The manual it comes with has good and easy recipes in it. Actually you can download it from their site for free:(...)
I've also googled recipes and tried them to great success. Among others, I've tried basic white, cheddar cheese, whole wheat, sweet hawaiian, oatmeal buttermilk, parmesan, rosemary - all came out great. Even a boxed beed bread mix from Trader Joe's turned out fine. I especially love the delay timer feature as most breads take about 3 hours so I like to go to bed and time it so it's just ready when I'm getting up. It's a nice smell to wake up to and not have to worry about making breakfast.
To my great relief, despite baking pretty much every other day for almost the whole first month, my electricity bill did not change that much, so it must also be somewhat energy efficient.
WARNING: the kneading paddle does tend to embed itself and come out with the baked bread (in other words, it gets stuck inside the bottom of the bread during baking so when you flip over the bread pan to get the bread out at the end, the paddle comes out with it and stays "stuck" inside until you remove it. Careful! The kneading paddle is all metal so it's super hot and to remove it I usually use a clean piece of paper towel or a spatula to pry it out. DO NOT FORGET THE PADDLE INSIDE!!!! If you do, when you start cutting the bread you will hit the paddle with your bread knife and likely scratch its nonstick coating making it unsafe for future use. I ruined both of my kneading paddles (the machine comes with two) that way and had to order a spare from the company (great customer service btw!).
The only other downside is that it does make healthy eating habits harder to stick to. It's just SO easy to make tasty fresh bread and eat half of it that same day!!! I'm imagine that if you're on a diet this is just about the worst thing to have around! I am perfectly fine having chocolate and ice cream and other delicious unhealthy goodies around the house and not indulge too much at all, but with the bread it is much more difficult because it is a "staple" food so it's easier to just say "oh well it's part of a regular meal." So think carefully before you bring such temptation into your life! :)
51 of 53 people found the following review helpful.
By Victoria Wacek
I've had this breadmaker for quite a while and it is great!! I've made everything from simple wheat to more complex sweet and savory breads and every single one has come out GREAT! Get this breadmaker!
52 of 58 people found the following review helpful.
By Preppy Stud
I thought about buying a breadmaker for a while. I wasn't sure if it is worthy the money after all, people have been making breads by hands for centuries. So I first tried to make breads by hands. It is not easy, I have to knead, or mix the flour with chopsticks, then i have to bake it in the oven, etc. quite time consuming, and result is not consistent.
Then I saw that Sears was selling this one for only 39.99 during the 2011 black Friday and Saturday. This is the cheapest breadmaker that I can ever find anywhere. So I decided to buy it right away. I am glad that I did. This machine is not only good for making breads, you can also use it to make pizza doughs!
I love the pizza dough, oh my god, if you are a pizza lover, you should buy this one. The pizza dough is as good as any pizza that you buy at the pizza shop. You can't tell the difference. And they are better than some of the frozen pizzas for sure. Just put all the required ingredients in the machine, about one hour and 30 mins later, you will get the perfect pizza dough. Then you can put whatever toppings you like on the pizza. And you will get the perfect pizza that you have ever made every time.
As for breads, I tried to make the french bread first. I didn't follow the instruction. I put too many different things in the machine, and I put in some regular flour, so the end result was disappointing. The second time, I tried to make the basic bread, and I put in the exact required ingredients. The bread was perfect, way better than the ones that I tried to make by myself.
So here I am, writing this review after I made two pizza doughs and two breads. I have never tried any other breadmakers, this is my first one. Other fancy ones can sell for almost $200. But this machine did the exact same thing perfectly.
And unlike the other user, I have no problem with the kneading paddle at all. I suspect that the other user may have put the paddle upside down which caused it to break, etc. As a matter of fact, it seems that the paddle is "glued" to the pan after first use. I tried to take it out, but I can't.
Every household should get a machine like this, and a soymilk maker. They will make your life easier, and healthy. If you don't even know what a soymilk maker is, you must read about them, and buy one right away. So you can drink healthy beanmilk daily. The beanmilk are way cheaper than milk.
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update: I tried to use the "french bread" cycle three times with different ingredients, the end result is not what i expected. It is not like the typical bread. it has too much water in it, the regular cycle only requires 1 cup of water, this one requires 1.5 cups of water, and it takes one extra hour. it actually doesn't rise as much as the regular bread. so i won't use that cycle in the near future. other people might like that. I uploaded two pictures on here, you can see them for yourselves.
i also tried the sweet bread cycle. that final product is the best bread that i have ever made, amazing!
one extra note, you don't have to measure everything precisely, the end products are always good.
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