Oster 2-Pound Expressbake Bread Machine with 13-Hour Delay Timer, CKSTBRTW20

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does what you want from it ... nothing fancy ... but produces nice bread... that's all that one should expect of it... though please keep in mind its made for 120 volt countries... and you will need a dc / ac upconverter - or you'll burn the appliance

Do not BUY. The machine was used may be 3 or 4 times and suddenly it stopped working. When i called up the Seller to assist in repairs they said I need to contact America for repairs. They were of no Help.

Con levadura instantánea en buen estado, levanta bien la masa, excepto en el modo xpress de 1 hora total, ahí siento que no levanta tanto como en los otros modos, pero eso es de esperarse y de cualquier forma quedan muy decentes.Buena calidad, no hace mucho ruido ni se tambalea al batir.OJO: Si tienes niños, jugando aprietan el botón de inicio o apagado, se echó a perder el pan, xq no puedes reiniciar donde ibas, inicia de nuevo a batir y demás.Hemos probado pan de plátano, clásico, italiano, etc. todos han salido bien sin problemas.Pagué cerca de 100 USD ($1,920MXN) y compraría de nuevo, mis hijos piden pan diario desde que la tenemos.He escuchado quejas por la altura sobre el nivel del mar, pero en Guadalajara, funcionó sin problemas.

The machine is easy to use and offers a variety of bread types and other dough products. However, I would suggest searching out other recipes online. We have only tried whole wheat recipes so far, but the results varied quite a bit according to the recipe we used. As the comments suggest, you can experiment and add or subtract small amounts of ingredients in a particular recipe to get better results, but for the beginner, trying various recipes can be an easier entry into using the bread machine to its maximum. After a few attempts with mixed results, the recipe that I tried today (found online) produced a lighter, tastier whole wheat bread as compared to the ones in the user manual. Generally pleased with the simplicity of use and variety of bread products available on this machine. Also, clean-up is quick and easy.

I always wanted one but never pulled the trigger. Well, my friend gave me an ancient Kitchenpro by Regal he got a garage sale. It lasted all of about 6 loaves before the gasket gave out and it would not hold liquids any longer. It was cool while it lasted and I wanted to replace the pan and keep using it. I found a new pan for about thirty bucks but there was no gaurantee something else would break on it because it was so old so I thought it might be better to buy new. Looking at all of the bread machines out there was quite intimidating. I landed on this one and did a thorough search through all of the reviews - good and bad - and decided to buy it. The machine makes a very good loaf of bread with no muss or fuss and very little clean up. I like the elongated pan that makes more of a traditional loaf of bread. I also love making my own pizza and this machine makes perfect pizza dough. I used to use the frozen bread loaves for pizza dough but no longer! If I decide I want to make pizza, in 90 minutes I can be pulling dough out of this machine and bake a pizza, just like that! You can't do that with the frozen bread loaves nor do the frozen loaves have the shelf life of bread flour! The Kitchenpro was, indeed, built like a tank and this one is much lighter but I do not see that as a negative. It is the American way to make things better with less material. Besides, the Kitchenpro weighed abiout 25 pounds whereas the Oster weighs in at 13. Much easier to pull out of the cupboard and set on the counter. There is plenty of torque and it will walk in a clockwise motion for a wee bit but no more and no less than the Kitchenpro. There is talk on here about "stuff" being left in the corners. I have used a spatula to push it down as described on here and in the instructions. But I have found the best loaf of bread is one where I set it up at night and use teh timer so I have fresh bread when I wake up. Guess what? You get a perfect loaf of bread and you can't tell if anything was left in the corners or not. I certainly don't go fuss with a spatual in the middle of the night, I simply let it do its thing.I only used the old one a few times and thought I would only use the Oster on rare occasions. Turns out, it does such a good job and so easily, I have been baking bread 3 to 4 times a week. I've went through about 5 bags of flour and such with no issues what so ever. It does what it says it will do, it has a nice price and is well built. Buttons have a positive click to them, display is easy to read and navigation to loaf type, size and crust color could not be easier. You can't go wrong with this machine.

Fácil de usar, excepto que el manual no es muy claro en algunos aspectos. Pero es muy práctico y sano hacer pan en casa.El tostado realmente es muy claro, por lo que recomiendo siempre lo uses en modo "dark".Silenciosa y fácil de lavar.

Bought: March 3, 2013 @ 59.99Date of this Review: November 12, 2015Status of this breadmaker: Showing its age but still chugging!I have been relocated by my company (together with my family) here in the US from Singapore. We moved to New Jersey around Nov, 2012 and we have been buying loaves of bread from our nearby supermarket daily @ $2.50 a pop 5 times a week. Over the couple of months we noticed that we are feeling a bit "down" thinking it was just us adjusting to the weather but we were also gaining weight every month. So, trying to be "healthy" we started reading the labels of each food we buy and noticed a LOOOOT of ingredients that looked like from a science fiction/medical drama series (see attached photo). So we thought of making our own bread from scratch but didn't want to spend a lot of time kneading and rising the dough everyday.Enter this bread machine and some research enabled us to save money and in turn saved our health. For the money saving part, we sourced the following ingredients:Walmart:Great Value Flour 25-Pound - $8 (37 servings)Great Value Powdered Milk 4-lbs - $16 (64 servings)Zulka Morena Pure Cane Sugar, 8 lbs - $5 (128 servings)Great Value: Vegetable Oil, 1 Gal - $5 (64 servings)Augason Farms Iodized Salt, 104 oz - $5 (623 servings)Amazon:Bob's Red Mill Gluten Flour Pack of 4 of 22-ounce each - $23 (83 servings)The Ready Store:SAF Premium Yeast 16oz - $7 (48 servings)Note: Per 1 serving denotes 1 loaf of 1.5 lb bread. So per serving of all combined ingredients above costs me $1.012! (Savings: $1.488). So in less than 2 months, I already made back the cost of the bread machine. So after that and 28 months later today - this breadmaker is still baking strong even after roughly 500 loaves of bread (20+/- loaves a month) with a total saving of around $700+.That said, we felt better after a couple of months and lost some weight. Even our dog likes our freshly baked bread - note that she NEVER EVER touched the ones we bought from the store. Not to mention the great sensation of smelling the loaves you bake - it's freshness! And a dab of butter on a freshly cut loaf lifts up your morale even more!The other best thing about making your bread at home - you can go beyond that simple loaf of bread! Add nuts, add eggs, add spices. Turn it into pumpernickel. Turn it into hoagies. Into fresh baguette. Into basically...anything! I bought the "The Artisan Bread Machine" here in Amazon and delved into more creations. We can now make anything the fancy bakeries out there can make WITHOUT the unspeakable ingredients.Pros:* Durable* Can make a variety of loaves with your desired setting* It takes only around 5 minutes to dump in the ingredients then it mixes and bakes* Never failed to make the perfect loaf (only if you put in the correct ingredients in the correct order)Cons:* As it ages (more than 2 years old now), the non-stick coating is fading but that's to be expected* It doesn't do laundryBottomline:If this breaks - I'm buying it again and hopefully the same quality as before. Worth the money and ROI pays off quickly. Better health knowing you know what goes in your bread > Priceless!----------------------------------------Update: 2/1/2017After almost 4 years - we have to let go of this beloved bread machine of ours. Not because it stopped working, but because we once again have to move to a country of different voltage and would deem impractical to bring this along. So almost after 4 years - it is still working and will hopefully find a new home (donated to the VVA).Definitely, if I ever found the same brand, we're buying this again.This is a final revision of this review - This bread machine has given us wonderful bread (and some bad ones - our fault) and wonderful memories. And thank you for the helpful comments that helped us and others. Hope this would help more people in the future.