KBS Premium 2LB Convection Bread Maker Dual Heaters, 710W Stainless Steel 17-in-1 Bread Machine Healthy Ceramic Pan, Nut Dispenser,Touch Panel, 3 Loaf Sizes 3 Crust Colors, 15H Timer,Low Noise,Recipes

I am super new to bread making. As in I've never even used an oven to bake anything prior to this. But we decided to switch to making our own bread after reading about all the chemicals ( like propionates (calcium or sodium propionate), sorbates (sorbic acid and potassium sorbate), benzoates, parabens (methyl and propyl) and acetic acid) put in bread to prevent it from getting mold. Growing up, bread used to get mold in 3-4 days in the fridge. Now-a-days even a month later, its still mold free. While its great for the stores, not so good for our consumption. I pulled the trigger on this bread machine. I have now been using it for almost a month and baking about 3-4 times a week. I have made regular bread, milk bread, swedish rye bread, sourdough bread, poufed dough for pizza crust, used the dough function as well as a couple other recipes from the booklet that came with it. Each time the bread has come out outstanding. Its just like the bread from the store and the whole family loves it. The picture is of a slice from the Swedish Rye bread. It is light airy and very tasty. What I really like about this breadmaker is (1) the bread pan: I have not had a single loaf stick to it or refuse to slide out. Its literally as simple as overturning the pan and the loaf comes out. No pre seasoning needed either. (2) the paddle : It a simple enough paddle but it gets the dough all mixed up in a perfect ball. My kids love watching it work from the little view window. Its powerful and has great coverage. And it slides right out of the bread. I usually remove it though once the stir cycle is done (the machine indicates when thats done). Also if you leave it in, the bread still turns out great with an indent through a couple of slices. And soaking it in water pulls the paddle right out of the pan . (3) The machine is hassle free. Once you put in the ingredients, 3 hrs later you have a perfect loaf of bread. It comes with recipies in two booklets. One is in the manuel and one is a book by itself. I prefer the recipies in the manuel. It does not tell the setting for all the recipies in the book so you have to guess at it. For example for the swedish rye bread recipe, I used the multigrain setting. If there was one improvement to make, that would be it...ie to put the setting 1-12 next to each recipie give in the booklet. I wish we had more recipes too since this seems like such a versatile breadmaker. Also...yesterday I made dough for hamburger buns. they puffed up perfectly in the oven. That was a huge hit too. This is the new favorite appliance in the family. Overall I would give it 10 stars if I could.

UPDATE: Bread machine fell off counter- snapped the hinge - contacted customer support received quick reply, they will replace the entire unit- talk about 5 stars first rate service- they set standard . If your trying to decide brands KBS is the one First loaf- honey wheat, so easy. This machine is great - not noisy easy to clean - makes it so easy for great tasting bread - hamburger buns are a totally different world Recipe book and user manual leave a lot to be desired but the product far surpasses this short coming.

I am so impressed by this little machine! I have had a few bread machines over the years and this one out-performs my $400+ one (that died, and this one replaced.) I have made many loaves and other recipes in the last month or so and have been very pleased at the taste, texture, consistency, quality. It also looks really nice. (no one wants an ugly machine out on the counter while using it.) 2 minor complaints... how to cancel a bread program once it starts, and the recipe booklet could use a little help to make it more user-friendly, but once you figure out what they are saying, its fine. Otherwise, it is very easy to use.

UPDATE#2: 9/17/24. I have made a few more loaves since the machine stopped kneading, and haven't had any problems with it. I'm assuming the problem was the dough, too dense and heavy. UPDATE: I just started making my 10th loaf and the machine stopped stirring. I'm returning it, unfortunately. I received the machine on 8/28/24. Today is 9/9/24 I've had this machine for a week now. I've used every day and have made 7 different loaves so far. Description says it makes 3 sizes, but not really. I've made the 1 lb, 1.5 lb and the 2 lbs loaf overflows the baking pan, touching the sides of the machine and it burns. (See picture) It also makes it very hard to take it out, since the bread goes over the handle and I couldn't grab it. Only reason why I gave it 4 stars. So now, I only make the 1.5 lbs recipes and they all come out perfectly. There are a few recipes in the manual, with measurements for all 3 sizes of loaves. There's also a small recipe book that comes with the machine, but it doesn't give the different measurements for different sizes of loaves. I bought this book (see picture) and have made all my bread so far from it. Love the book! Something else to consider when looking for a bread maker is the potency of the motor. This one is 710W. It does a great jog kneading the dough. I wouldn't go any lower than 710W. As for the noise, it's pretty quiet. My hood fan in the kitchen is much louder than this machine. It beeps when it's time to add nuts/fruits and you can hear a clicking sound, that's the nut dispenser opening. I have not used this feature yet, so can't say how well it works. It beeps at the end too. The paddle gets stuck in the pan and it took me a long time to figured out how to remove it. Here's how: soak in water for a bit, to soften the bread that got stuck in the paddle. Then gently twist it, while holding under the pan. During the kneading, the paddle moves out of the axis a little. You just need to gently put it back, and comes out pretty easily. I also like that it has 2 heating elements. I believe it helps in the baking and all of my loaves have been perfectly and evenly baked. I also only have used 3 functions so far: soft, French and sweet bread. All in all, I'm happy with my purchase and I hope this machine lasts because I'll be using it everyday

After much research, I decided on this bread machine. This was the first time making my own bread and wasn’t sure if I would like it, so spending hundreds of dollars didn’t make sense. This machine turns out to be awesome. It is easy to use and makes great bread. I use the dough cycle a lot for bread items I bake in the oven. It eliminates the need to spend hours kneading the dough. I initially had difficulty getting the paddle off the stem after baking, but I started oiling both the stem and paddle prior to baking and the problem was solved. I highly recommend this bread machine.

When I was about four years old, my grandmother made dinner for the extended family. She made lentil stew with a large beef bone and chunks of meat, and in the delicious broth she cooked lentils. This was served with homemade brown bread, crusty and warm. You ate it by dipping the bread into the broth to soak up the juices. It was the best thing I had ever tasted. 65 years later it is a clear memory and my earliest memory of food. No one believed that a four year old would eat fourths, but I did. I decided to buy a bread machine because there is not a single bakery near me, chain store or independent, that produces a good crusty loaf of bread. Bread brands that, in Fort Lauderdale, have crust, here have brown surfaces that have the same texture as the interiors. I stopped at a stand that sold Italian sausage and peppers on a bun, and the bun was good and crusty. I asked the owner where he got the great bread. He said he had it airshipped weekly from Chicago, he could not get good bread locally. So I wasn't the only person who had noticed. There was no good bread made here. Now this may be just a matter of taste, but my taste finally forced me to bake my own bread. Periodically in my life I have tried to make bread. It was always mediocre. Over or under kneaded, wrong flour. I could buy better bread at the grocery. My grandmother never used a scale, picked the stuff up on sale. She would start bread in the evening, wake without an alarm to punch it down, and bake it first thing in the morning so that it took the chill off of the kitchen, and then we could have fresh baked bread for lunch. I thought it was normal...everyone had hearty, thick sliced fresh baked bread, right? When you had a sandwich in your lunchbox, it was between two slices of heavy tasty brown bread. I never knew how lucky I was. And I can't bake bread. I have tried. So here I am in a dilemma. I know what good bread is, but the local bakeries, either the small ones or the big commercial ones, around here, make crappy bread. If I wanted a loaf that was aught but crustless mush, (or firm crustless bread) I decided I had to bake it myself. I decided to buy this machine. There was an offer but the reviews were good. The deciding factor is that more than one person reported good experience with customer service. And I feel lucky that I bought this machine. Wow! I used the French bread recipe in the book, but salted butter and less salt, everything weighed. Boom! Five stars, perfect, crust that you expect on a French loaf. This was bread I wanted to eat. Light, uniform, with a crusty crust. And...fresh hot bread to boot! Wonderful smells, melty butter. My flours were all from Bob's Red Mill. I used the white flour for the French, and then I tried to make rye bread. I looked on the internet and found some recipes. First try was way too sweet, and the second try was missing something. Third try hit it right on: 270ml water 22.5 gm light oil (I used light olive) 7 gm brown sugar 180 gm of bread flour 180 gm dark rye flour 6 gm salt 5 gm bread machine yeast 6-12 gm Badia Caraway seeds. This results in a heavy loaf. If you make a large loaf of French, you need to remove the fruit gadget, because it almost hits the top glass. This makes a heavy square loaf that makes it 2/3 up the pan. I have seen recipes that use chocolate, and 4 times the amount of brown sugar. I tried one with way more brown sugar. Too sweet. Cake. I might make a sweet bread someday but when I make rye I want rye bread, not brown sugar bread. This bread had a crust, a great rye flavor, and enough Caraway seeds that they gave me the caraway flavor that is traditional in seeded rye. I have not tried the jam or yogurt or other cycles. I have used the French cycle for the great light crusty French, and the whole wheat cycle for rye. It seems like there are few differences in the cycles, but there are differences, rise time, baking time and temperature. The machine can do three rise cycles but most of the cycles use two, sourdough (which is my next goal) and a couple of others use 3. You can pick a cycle, a loaf size and crust darkness, but you can't make other adjustments to the cycles. Then again, I have not needed those adjustments, but the implication is that a "Pro" machine should allow such adjustments, at least to me. If you are a novice at bread baking, get a scale that will measure in grams and will go to 5kg. Get another scale that will measure in 0.1 or 0.01 gram increments for yeast and salt. Get a bread box and a cooling rack. Get a bread knife. A crappy knife will crush your bread while cutting. Put your good knife in a knife block, not in a drawer, and not in the dishwasher. Protect the edge. That is all you need. Consider a bread box or bread bag. The book that comes with the machine is Excellent. It is written in English (not chinglish). I have no idea what language it was originally written in, but if it was not English, the translation is excellent. It has decent instruction for many things including how to make a sourdough starter. The instructions are detailed, not cursory. I have found that the bread is easy to get out of the coated pan. I have owned other machines. They would make decent bread. I am a bread novice and now I can make better bread than I can buy. Great bread, good instructions, and (others report) good customer service. I would like to have a cycle where I could adjust every aspect rather than just a separate timed bake, but honestly I do not need to. This machine is a buy. Edit: the machine is still a buy but when you make sourdough make the smallest loaf. I tried making a mid sized loaf and it spilled all over the inside of the machine. I cleaned the baked bread out of the bottom with a shopvac, surprisingly easy. I also thought their sourdough was way sweet. If your small loaf works and fits in the loaf pan, then move up.

As a gluten-free eater, I've spent years hunting for a loaf of gluten-free bread that actually tastes and feels like the "real" deal. I've spent so much money on store bought mediocre gluten-free breads over the years, and for the most part disappointed with the texture and taste. I was always a bit intimidated to make my own bread until I found this KBS Bread Machine ...WOW...a complete game changer for me. I chose this machine for the great reviews, and especially for its gluten free setting...my very first loaf was (to my delight and surprise) a complete success! The timing on the gluten-free program manages the single, crucial rise perfectly, preventing the loaf from collapsing on itself...this is a big deal! I am now delighted to say I have made more than 10 successful loafs of gluten-free bread. Beyond just bread, the KBS machine makes the entire process incredibly simple, basically add your wet ingredients, followed by the dry ingredients then set it and forget it. The only interaction I have is during the first couple of minutes of the first stir, I take a spatula and push down all around the sides of the dough to make sure the dough gets fully incorporated...that's it!! This bread machine runs surprisingly quietly, and the cleanup is a breeze thanks to the non-toxic (another reason I chose this machine), non-stick ceramic pan, which is crucial for the sticky nature of gluten-free dough. I serve this bread to family and friends who compliment it, and are so surprised when I tell them its gluten-free...I'm loving bread again thanks to finding this great machine. Here is a simply recipe I used for my first loaf of bread: Great for sandwiches ( white bread shown in the picture) ... 1 2/3 cups warm filtered (70-80 degrees) water (396.9 grams) ... 3 eggs at room temperature, lightly beaten ... 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil ... 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar ... 3 2/3 cups Cup4Cup gluten free flour (469 grams) (I highly recommend the Cup4Cup gluten free brand for this) ... 2 teaspoons xanthan gum ... 2 1/2 teaspoons sea salt ... 3 tablespoons granulated sugar ... 2 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast or instant yeast 1. Add warm water, eggs, olive oil and apple cider vinegar to the bread machine pan 2. Next, carefully add the flour into the center of the pan. Sprinkle the xanthan gum and sea salt across the flour, then with your finger, make a divot in the center of the flour and fill the divot with the sugar and yeast, making sure no yeast touches the liquid. 3. Carefully put the pan back into the bread machine. Select the gluten-free setting with medium crust and 1.5 lb (750g) size bread. During the first stir, open the top of the machine and gently stir any flour stuck to the side of the pan into the dough. 4. When bread completes the baking process, remove the loaf from the pan and let it cool COMPLETELY before slicing (very important to let the bread cool completely to insure proper texture) To ensure the freshness, I advise to (when fully cooled, about 2 hours) cut into slices, separate each slice with dry waxed paper (to keep slices from sticking together while freezing) then put into a freezer safe bag and freeze. Tip: when ready to use, take out of freezer, put into toaster and toast twice (yes twice) as gluten free bread is denser than wheat bread and that second toasting will make it perfect. ENJOY!

After my last bread machine broke, it was time to buy a new one. I chose a KBS because it had very good customer reviews and it was in the price range I wanted. I am Extremely pleased with my purchase. Makes the bread bake much better and the ceramic coating in the bread pan makes the loaf just fall out. After 5 months, noticed some minor chipping in the bread pan and I emailed John@KBS to ask about it. He said that they will send me a new bread pan. This is a great machine backed by a great company. And the sourdough bread cycle on this machine is just fantastic. Tom Morrisey