Great product from Panasonic. Once we got our head round the instructions, they're actually really easy. Baked our first loaf within hours of receipt - a perfect white farmhouse loaf. Required some encouragement to get out the tin. Paddle hole in the base of the loaf is nice and small. Needless to say it was soon gobbled up. As good as shop bought loaves. Very easy to clean. Loads of programmes to try yet but early indications are this is a winner. Only negative so far would be it's quite large, so when on the worktop it can be a bit of a tip toe job for some to easily see the screen. All in all though, a great buy and definitely recommended.