Simply fantastic. Made four different loaves in a week and all turned out perfect. Life changing!!

The Panasonic SD-YR2550SXC Bread Maker has excellent build quality, is sturdy and is accompanied by comprehensive instructions. The casing is brushed stainless steel which merely gets warm during baking, never hot to the touch. The machine looked spotless on unpacking, even before the recommended clean prior to first use. My first loaf, a wholemeal, baked to perfection. The baking basket will stand on digital scales and all ingredients can be added and weighed at the same time, which I found guaranteed accurate amounts of flour, oil and water - measurement accuracy is the key to excellent and reproducible loaves. The control panel is covered with a one-piece surface which means that no dust or flour can ingress. The only improvement that I would make would be to provide some backlighting to the LCD display to make it easy to read clearly even when the kitchen lights are off during the day. After baking, I was able to shake the loaf easily out of the baking basket which has a non-stick surface. Finally, the machine looked perfectly clean after baking! The only bit that really needed cleaning was the baking basket, and even then this was just around the kneading blade which required just an 8-minute soak to free (I poured just a little warm water into the basket to do this). Panasonic Bread Makers always score well in Which? and judging by mine I can understand why. So I'm very pleased with the Bread Maker and would recommend it.

It's a good size and ots better than my old one, it does more and very good machine

This is a smart looking machine and although, so far, I’ve only used it three times (2 white loaves and one whole meal) I am very pleased with the results. All the loaves were well risen with a good crust and very tasty. I am looking forward to trying the sourdough recipe next. I haven’t tried the dough mode yet but I am confident it will produce equally good results. I have had two previous Panasonic bread machines but I think this one is the best so far.

Great quality, reasonable priced breadmaking. I love the many functions especially the nut and yeast dispensers. First make was a medium white loaf which was light and soft.

Excellent product easy to use, first try turned out an amazing loaf family loved it

Fantastic. I’m a keen and experienced baker, I make my own sourdough, but the process I prefer take 48 hours from start to finish. Sometimes there is a need for faster bread and this machine delivers splendidly. My favourite is the french program, long enough to use sourdough together with a bit of yest, it makes fantastic crusty bread. The bread kneading manual program is so effective I prefer to use it to make panettone (very difficult dough) to my Kenwood cooking chef. It takes the bread machine only half the time and has spectacular results, never have had such a beautifully developed panettone dough before. Highly recommend this Panasonic breadmaker.

Great bread machine, that makes a superb loaf. The default basic-white programme takes 4h, but to be honest I cannot tell the difference in quality with the rapid programme at just 2h (just follow instructions and use more yeast). The only criticism I have is that when the machine dispenses the yeast from the top hopper it is REALLY noisy. Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang.... sounds like someone is hammering at the house door.