west bend or hamilton beach bread machine

precious

Sun, Aug 25 2013, 9:47 pm

I need a new bread machine, and these two seem like decent options in the $60 range. Does anyone have the west bend 2 lb or hamilton beach 2 lb bread maker?? Or does anyone have another cheap bread machine to recommend? Thanks

rachel6543

Sun, Aug 25 2013, 10:27 pm

I have an Oster bread machine which is in the $60 range on amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Oster-58.....5OTXK

My mom bought it as gift for me after my previous bread machine died.

I mostly use it for making challah and pizza dough, but sometime use for making sandwich bread for lunches.

My first Oster lasted 6 months and then it suddenly died. I contacted the manufacturer and they replaced it immediately, was a very good customer service experience (I emailed them about the issue, my response email from them was replacement has already been shipped). I have used my replacement Oster for over a year now with no issues.

For a basic bread machine it works fine. Mixes dough fine. Bakes bread fine. The only thing I don't like about this machine is that it beeps very loudly (when it's done baking or kneading dough).

rena18

Sun, Sep 01 2013, 12:25 am

I have the West bend dual blade Hi rise breadmaker, which I bought in Dec. I have only used it to make dough so far. I have been having a problem that that the dough under one paddle has a black line in it and the shaft also looked black. I called customer service on Thurs. The rep had no idea what could be causing this so she offered to send a new bread pan, and paddles which actually arrived two days later. I am very impressed with the customer service. (actually she sent 2 sets of paddles.) Other than that I am happy with it.

rena18

Fri, Feb 07 2014, 11:33 am

rena18 wrote:

I just wanted to update. This problem occurred again. I noticed the shaft that the paddle goes on was had black goo on it.after I had already used the dough. I didn't notice anything on the dough. The paddle had stayed in the machine and I didn't get to clean it out before Shabbos. I called customer service and they sent me a new pan and paddles even though it has been over a year since I bought the machine. This time the woman said she wanted me to return the pan and even I asked for my exact recipe so they could try toduplicate it. I am still waiting for the return label which they forgot to send me. I used the new pan once so far and it was fine.