Panasonic SD-YD250

Panasonic SD-YD250 Automatic Bread Maker

Relevant Features

  • 3 Loaf sizes: medium, large and extra-large (up to 2-1/2 pounds)
  • Settings for white, whole wheat, multigrain, French & quick breads/cakes
  • Bread crust control: Light, medium & dark
  • 13-hour delay timer
  • Automatic shutoff
  • Rapid bake cycle
  • Add-ingredient alert
  • Bake Modes: Bake Only, Sandwich, Raisin, Dough and Pizza
  • Yeast Dispenser
  • Recipes booklet for 40 breads and doughs, plus baking tips
  • Included Accessories: Measuring cup & measuring spoon
  • Dimensions (W x D x H): 13.5 x 9 x 14 inches
  • Weight: 15.4 pounds
  • Electric Rating: 120 volts / 550 watts
  • 1-year limited warranty
  • Price: Under $130

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With this automatic, easy to use, Bread Baker you have the ability to bake delicious bread, freshly prepared and baked at home. Just place the ingredients in the non-stick pan, set your desired setting options, and it does everything else.

It provides you with many options: It mixes, kneads, rises, and bakes bread in three loaf sizes up to 2-1/2 pounds. Its digital controls offers you settings for white, whole wheat, multigrain, and French breads and three crust color options (light, medium or dark).

Additional settings allows you rapid baking and baking sandwich bread with a soft crust. It has a beeper signal for adding raisings (or other dried-fruit)  so the fruit it’s not crushed during kneading.

The machine automatically adds yeast at the proper time from its built-in dispenser. It also bakes non-yeast, quick breads (like banana and gingerbread) and sweet cakes. And it mixes, kneads, and rises doughs for pizza, focaccia, croissants, and other pastries without baking them.

A timer permits the machine to be programmed up to 13 hours in advance so fresh bread or cake is available for breakfast or dinner. But it doesn’t have a keep warm feature once the bread is ready.

Its instruction booklet is very easy to understand and includes 40 bread and doughs recipes along with useful baking basics and illustrated tips for making pastries.

 

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Customer Opinion

Has lots of options, and makes very good bread
By Henry Perkins (Santa Clara, CA)

The Panasonic SD-YD250 is pretty much the state of the art in bread machine technology in mid 2000s. It’s one of the larger units around with a 2.5 lb. loaf capacity. This size will also eat up your counter or cupboard space: you need just under 14" of width and height, and 10" of depth, so keep that in mind when you order.

The bread consistency is excellent. It’s even pretty good in the "rapid" mode, though the results are a bit better in the standard bake mode so that’s what I generally use. Also, the "rapid" mode for whole wheat or multigrain bread is 3 hours (vs. 5 hours standard), so it’s not like you can start the machine at the beginning of a meal and expect completed bread before you leave the table. The fastest full cycle -(rapid" bake mode for white bread) is 1hr 55min.

The SD-YD250 is quieter than most earlier bread makers; however, you’ll still hear the clicking and whirring as it mixes and kneads the dough. It’s a neat idea to wake up to the smell of freshly-baked bread but the machine isn’t quiet enough to run in the bedroom unless you’re a very sound sleeper.

The options for this machine include the following:

  • Basic/rapid bake
  • Immediate start/timer delay
  • White/ whole wheat / multigrain
  • Sandwich (soft crust)
  • Crust color light/medium/dark
  • Raisin (pause and beep to add fruit or nuts)
  • Dough knead without bake
  • Bake without dough knead

Note that not all of these options can be combined. For instance: you only get crust color selection for white bread, and sandwich mode for white and whole wheat; multigrain bread always has a dark, tough crust (although the bread inside the crust is moist and well-textured).

The container inside really is nonstick (based on my not-so-lengthy use since I bought it) and the kneading blade does very little damage to the finished loaf. Ease of use and cleanup are both excellent.

Bread results are quite sensitive to variations in the ingredients in either weight, consistency, or age. Always use fresh bread flour and fresh yeast (bread machine yeast recommended) and the right amount of salt, sugar, and flour. The recipes in the included book specify flour weight in units like 16 3/4 oz., so it’s highly recommended that you get a digital kitchen scale for good results. Note that this will require still more counter space.

Summary: a very good machine, but you’ll need a fair amount of counter space and attention to details to get the best results from it.

 

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Bread Machine Baking II

America's Best Bread Machine Baking Recipes

America’s Best Bread Machine Baking Recipes
by Donna Washburn & Heather Butt

Average Reader’s Score: four star

Paperback Edition: Best Deal

Review

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More of America's Best Bread Machine Baking Recipes

More of America’s Best Bread Machine Baking Recipes
by Donna Washburn & Heather Butt

Average Reader’s Score: four and half stars
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Canada's Best Bread Machine Baking Recipes

Canada’s Best Bread Machine Baking Recipes
by Donna Washburn & Heather Butt

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All New Ultimate Bread Machine Cookbook

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The Best Bread Machine Cookbook Ever

The Best Bread Machine Cookbook Ever
by Madge Rosenberg

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A loaf of bread, a bread machine, and you.

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by Madge Rosenberg & Warren Chang

Average Reader’s Score: four stars
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Now you can enjoy all the bread you want without any worry about fat. Over 150 irresistible recipes in this volume transform your bread machine from an efficient home bakery into an invaluable aid to nutrition. Most of these aromatic loaves contain 5 percent or less of fat. on top of that, these fresh-baked doughs contain absolutely no sugar or artificial sweeteners. All that is added are natural fresh and dried fruits, vegetables, and grains forextra flavor and vitamins, minerals, and fiber.

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The Best Bread Machine Cookbook Ever: Ethnic Breads

The Best Bread Machine Cookbook Ever: Ethnic Breads
by Madge Rosenberg

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The Breadmaker Bible

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by Karen Saunders

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