I tried a £40 Aldi Bread Maker! 

More individual kitchen gadget reviews ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-olFYfhtScR4.html&pp=gAQBiAQB Here's the breadmaker aldi.co.uk/ambiano-bread-maker-550w/p/714552570999300

I had a bread maker way back when and I ended giving it away bc I was eating a flippin loaf a day.

My grand parents baked their own bread well into their 90's until last year they both passed away and their bread maker (a nice Tefal one) came into my house along with 8kg of whole wheat flour. Until this video I almost forgot I had it in my cupboard so now a nice 750g bread is being made using my grand parent's flour. Having eaten their bread for so many decades it will be a blast of nostalgia to taste it again ...

I only use the "dough" setting on my bread machine. Nothing else. It basically mixes, kneads, and takes bread dough through its first proof (about 1 hour total). I then take the dough out, deflate it, give it a quick knead, shape it into a loaf, and then proof it a second time in the more traditional way in a bread pan. I then bake it off in the oven. I hate the way bread machines bake bread. I love the way the machine does the kneading for you.

I use mine weekly. The dough setting is fantastic for pizza dough, pita bread and hamburger buns.

I remember in the early 1990's when the bread machines hit the households here in the USA, and it was a small sensational craze that everyone compared their bread creations to others peoples homemade breads. That hole in the middle was an issue that everyone hated as well. Most gave it up and went with regular breadmaking with stand mixers or by hand. The craze of the bread machines came back with the lockdowns these last few years and bread wasn't available. of course flour and yeast was hard to fine for several months as well.

The look on Mrs. B's face as she said "Don't give it away" had me giggling 😂

I’m in the US and purchased a similar bread maker from Lidl and it made the most gorgeous hot cross buns using the dough function.

Been using my breadmaker 1-2 times a week for about 10 years now (I'm on the second one). Favourite appliance I ever bought... Make the 700g loaves rather than the 1kg ones to avoid overstuffing the tin like that. Also there should be a time that it's safe to PAUSE the machine and get under the dough with a floured hand to remove the paddle. For my machine that's between the 1st and 2nd rise; after that punch-down it's done kneading... That makes the hole tiny and discreet, and less likely to tear open the bottom when you tip it out. 😊

In this episode, Barry has a realisation that hot things are hot. 😆

I loved my bread machine, and definitely want to get a new one when I can afford it. What I really liked to do was to use it to make and proof the dough, then I would take the dough out and make conventional loaves in the oven. Made great pizza dough!

Barry: Spends over a decade making food for the Internet Also Barry: Doesn't think to grease the inside of a bread machine when making cake. Oh, Barry. Never change.

When you add the oil, pour it onto the paddle, and then swirl the oil water mixture to coat the pan before adding all the other ingredients. Doing this makes the browning more even on the crust and the paddle is more likely to release smoothly. I think that you're having issues with overfilling the machine, maybe the recipes they included weren't thoroughly tested, or your measures are a slight bit generous. Since you have three loaf size options, I would make the middle size and slowly scale them up towards the large size. If your bread touches the lid, it'll be misshapen and there won't be enough room for steam condensation to go. I've made jam plenty of times in my machine (a pricier one) and it works out great. I've done variations on the included recipes and you can pretty much do any fruit you've got so long as you don't overfill it. It's a great way to use up excess fruit {bought too much, or didn't finish in time) or to take advantage of cheap markdown ripe/MQ fruit at the market.

Hi Barry, I am sorry if this has been said somewhere but you might get some better results if you let the machine cool completely between cooks, as the warmth may through off the proving, and resting times. Also, I have never found the keep warm function to work well, I have found it makes it stoggy. I have been using a bread maker and I love it. Love the videos 🙂

The dough feature is great for mixing up pretzel dough, pizza dough, or bread doughs that you want to shape differently (and make it look like an actual artisan loaf). I have used my bread maker for over 20 years now and can tell you that they are great to have. The Challah bread recipe I have is terrific( I will happily share upon request ), and that is an easy and very pretty braided loaf. I bet your girls would love it and would also love helping to make it. Excellent for making very naughty French toast the next day as well (that is, if you have any left!). The mix in feature is lovely if you want to add seeds or nuts into your dough. As Mrs. B. said about the raisins, it helps to not have the mix-ins sink to the bottom of the loaf by having you add them when the gluten has sort of set up enough to give the dough some body enough to hold it's shape. A nice thing about the bread maker mixing up your ingredients and kneading your dough is that even if you don't actually end up baking in the actual machine, you know you will have a nice warm and contained proofing chamber while the dough rises. Tip: DON"T use the dark crust feature when baking in machine. Medium at the most. The heating element that close to the bottom will almost always scorch the bottom of the loaf. Especially if you have a dough with a larger amount of honey or sugar in the ingredients.

Honestly didn't even know rice bread was a thing 🤷‍♀️ My mum used to have a bread maker and the bread was always so nice. Loved it when it was still a bit warm!

I can't have been the only person that shouted 'NOOooo!' when Barry shoved that metal spatula into the bread tin... 😱 Nice to see that over 15 years after I bought my Panasonic bread maker, Barry's worked exactly the same and had all the same functions. All the same paddle-stuck, bread won't come out, burn hand on wire handle fun.... 🤣 Mine has a small compartment that releases seeds/fruit/etc as part of a programme. Barry's is quite a bit cheaper though. 👍🏻

Now we just need Barry to dive into the mad world of breadmaker cookbooks - there are loads of them. The better ones will tell you how to adjust the recipes for the machine you have, but as is the case with most appliance specific recipes, they tend to be a bit hit and miss

We used to have a bread maker just like this at our family cottage growing up. Grandpa would use it every single day we were there for years, and at some point we had all just accepted that the metal thing at the bottom would have to be plucked out of the bread after baking 😂😂

I like to use my bread maker to make the dough and first rise, then bring it out for shaping and final rise and then bake in the oven. Takes all the hard work out and gives a better crust😊

Don't give up on the other functions, while I've never done a yeast cake in mine (and never will after seeing yours), the cheesecake I make in my breadmaker is a favorite, especially since it's so easy and minimal clean up.

Hey Barry, now that I see you have tried a bacon jelly I would really love to see you make Bacon Jam & my guess is that the whole family would really go "bonkers" on this one. I have literally sat here for the last two weeks watching you & Mrs B & the girls (who are so adorable) from season 1 now I need to get into season 2 I am 81 years old & now addicted to your videos, please keep them coming. Your latest fan, Rose M

Barry! Sending you love and support from Colombia! Can you please try Bandeja Paisa, the signature dish from my country, for your Taste the World Series?

Knowing Barry’s history of smoke and flames in the kitchen, I love how the toaster is lurking in the background as he’s worried about the bread maker. Can a kitchen appliance mock and taunt you, I feel the toaster is definitely feeling proud of it’s electrical cousin in this video

Ambiano is the brand that Aldi use, nearly all their electronic goods will be that brand the smoke could be either because it's new or because you got flour on the element so it's that burning off. I have a Panasonic bread maker (it adds fruit etc. automatically if you set it to), I always add my ingredients with the pan on the work top then put the pan into the machine. that hook is for helping to pull the paddle out of the bread as sometimes it will stay inside the loaf. the insides, pan, handle & paddle, are metal, they will be hot as they conduct heat LOL you might just need a different cake recipe. I often find you need to try different ones. a regular oven one might work. really the well in the top for the yeast is just for when you do the delayed start otherwise you can almost just throw it all in in any order, I tend to do wet first then add dry yes that hole in the bottom is common in all bread makers as far as I can tell (there is one that has two paddles in the pan, at least I think they still make that one) that pan is non stick (yes things still get wedged in now and then) please don't use a metal tool to release the food, that can damage the pan. wood or silicone are best for releasing things. sometimes twisting the paddle from the bottom (outside) can help release them too.

These cheap gadgets are fun to watch, should do more of these definitely. 1st too

I think Barry qualifies as a national treasure at this point. Criminal that he's still under a million subs.

Most youtubers would just make the standard bread then talk about ut for the rest of the video but not the goat Barry.Great vid.

My father uses his bread maker a lot, it makes beautifully soft bread for sandwiches but is perfect for toasting too as you discovered. He tends to make the medium sized loaf though so it doesn't rise too much and hit the top of the lid and therefore reduces the problem you encountered with the top of the wholemeal bread having the dip in it. The paddle getting embedded into the cake bottom made me laugh so much 😆

I love baking breads. One of my favorite hobbies. Sometimes I just don’t want to drag out the stand mixer and shape and proof, or fiddle with my starter…. bread makers are great.

Try to add ingredients into the pan then put the pan in the machine, by doing that, no spilling will happen.

I bought my first bread maker probably 20 years ago and it looks exactly like yours except mine is white and only has 18 functions. I used the timing function to have freshly baked bread twice a week during the workweek, and it was just lovely to wake up to the smell of freshly baked bread spreading throughout the kitchen when you get up. The machine still works just as well as when it was brand new but because I am now retired I actually like to make my loafs myself, so the machine doesn't get quite as much use anymore. That said I still love the timing function, which is hard to beat if you want to wake up to freshly baked bread.

Ingredients: 460 grams bread flour 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon sugar 2 teaspoons active dry yeast 300 milliliters warm water 2 tablespoons vegetable oil Instructions: Add the bread flour, salt, sugar, and yeast to the bread machine pan. Add the warm water and vegetable oil to the pan, making sure the liquid covers the dry ingredients. Insert the bread machine pan into the machine and select the 2-pound loaf setting. Start the machine and let it knead and rise the dough according to the manufacturer's instructions. Once the baking cycle is complete, remove the pan from the machine and carefully remove the bread from the pan. Allow the bread to cool on a wire rack before slicing and serving. Enjoy your homemade bread! thats my bread i do in the machine enjoy

Barry, sometimes it is possible to overpower a bread or cake by overadding extras into the mixture. I have bread machines that can do a loaf in 58 minutes and I like to add sweet potato flakes (yep, they make an instant sweet potato), which helps to give a bit of an extra rise. When adding dried fruit, you are actually adding more sugar to your recipe which can have an effect on the size of the loaf. I have a bread maker cookbook which only uses fruit, instead of sugar for each recipe. I did like on of the loaves that had black pepper and feta cheese in it. I used the dough setting when I wanted to make a 9x13 pan of giant cinnamon rolls.

I've had a couple of breadmakers - a Morphy Richards long loaf one and a previous Aldi one, which were 'ok' but generally unless you kept an eye on them would have flour spots in the corners, or the paddles would get stuck inside the bread or be a sod to clean. Then about 12 months ago I splashed out on the Panasonic ZB-2502 which although being nearly £200, makes utterly fantastic bread and is the best breadmaker I've ever had, hands down. I can put all the ingredients in when I go to bed and at 6:30am I'm woken up by the smell of a fresh loaf. It has separate Yeast & 'Additional' compartments (so if you want to add currants, dried fruit or other ingredients later in the mix like you did manually here for the rice bread) which dispense automatically. The paddle never gets stuck in the bread, and the bread is always amazing. In fact, I didn't realise that Panasonic (Matsushita) are actually the company that first invented the home breadmaker machine back in 1986!

I was cringing when you used the metal spatula to get the 'cake' out.... RIP non stick coating.

Barry! You should try making New Jersey crumb cake! A yeasted cake topped with a cinnamon sugar streusel. One of my favorites to make. America's Test Kitchen has a very good recipe!

Love seeing You test these things Barry, your reactions are so cheerful, You always make My momdays!😊😊😊

A stuck paddle is a rite of passage with bread makers.

My parents used their breadmaker all the time while I was growing up. I bought one as an adult, and started gaining weight because of all the fresh bread I was eating (I blame the fact you can't easily buy small bags of bread flour)! Now the breadmaker comes out for special occasions, and it's always a winner at family dinners.

Hi Barry ! I have been flogging the guts out of my bread maker for years now, haven't bought a loaf since ! Pro tip if you are looking for a great machine for yourself and Mrs B , I heartily recommend a Morphy Richards twin paddle model ...excellent bread and has an amazing feature other bread makers dont . It will give you 10 beeps after the final de-gas and pause for a few minutes to allow you to remove the paddles before final rise and bake ! No more paddles stuck or huge holes in your bread ... just the two small shaft holes 👍 alsobakes a more regularly shaped loaf... A real great unit .

I love my bread maker. Great for making rolls and pizza doughs as well! Yes, every bread maker has the same paddle, and it does always leave a hole in the bread😂

Remove the paddle between 1 : 50 and 1 : 40 on the display on most bread machine models. If the tin is hard to remove then leave it in the machine.

I should not watch this videos when I am already hungry. That crunching sound of the bread...awesome.

Man did I want to shout through the screen “Don’t touch the handle or the dough hook!” I had a bread machine very similar to this one in the early 2000’s and those things get very hot. Great video, enjoyed it!

Hi Barry! Can you try making Chicken Adobo from the Philippines for your Taste the World playlist?

i wonder how much energy breadmakers consume over the 4 hours it is working?

Lidl even have some decent bread mixes, where you just add water and time to get a good loaf. As for the paddle hole there are a few models available that have collapsible kneading paddles where the paddle is supposed to end up flat at the bottom after the kneading is done and as such the holes become notisable smaller(when it works).

I gave a bread maker to my elderly mother who has lots of allergies so she can make very pure fresh bread without additives and she has never looked back! The bread is delicious and the smell of fresh bread is always wonderful. Thanks for posting.

Sweet breads are between a bread and a cake. There is an old traditional sweet bread here in Canada called chop suey loaf. It is like a white bread with extra sugar and the kind of candied peel used in christmas cakes. You serve it with tea as you would cake or bread and butter.

Puts breadcube on table - *wow artisanal loaf* 😂

What Barry recognized was the problem of overnight settings eith any kind of add-ons like seeds, raisins etc. That's why the more professional ones have a tray that gets tipped in at a preset time. Some even have multiple trays that drop in some components earlier, others later.

The hole on the bottom of the bread is normal in bread makers. Even in the expensive brands like Zojirushi, which has 2 paddles! So you get 2 holes.

A couple of things from 25 yrs of using bread machines, you need to allow the machine to cool down completely between each loaf otherwise the yeast will die. Don't allow the yeast and salt to connect to quickly again it will kill the yeast. Often depending on the time or year and temperature in the house you may need to add a bit more water or flour. Spray the bread bin with 'real ease' or 'bakels sprink' so that nothing sticks. Good luck

I have a bread maker also. I got it at the beginning of the pandemic, and haven't bought a loaf since. You can bake anything in it. Our favourites are sourdough (just the dough), cinnamon raisin bread, sub buns, and of course, regular bread.

You usually have to experiment in the amount of yeast you use to get it just right. Also smaller loaf sizes tend make better bread in my opinion.

Can't believe you're trying a bread maker for the first time in 2023. My mother had one back in the early 90s and my husband and I have had ours for at least 20 years. We still use it regularly. We use the dough setting to make pizza dough and dough for baguettes.

2 ingredient bread self-raising flour and plain yoghurt of your choice

Get a Panasonic bread maker = sheer genius

Yeah, the hole in the bottom is a common thing. I think you're supposed to fish out the kneading hook when the baking phase starts with that wire hook. (I got my machine second-hand fifteen years ago -- apart from gluten-free and stir-fry settings, it looks absolutely identical -- and the wire hook was missing, so hole in the bread it is for me.) If you want to make something between a malt loaf and a wintery thing, use flour with a high rye content, chuck in chopped dried fruit and a bunch of black molasses, and use luke-warm chai-like spiced tea instead of water to get cinnamon, clove, etc. flavours. The result is very dense and definitely needs a lot of butter, but it is sweet and filling, too, the right thing after an afternoon outside in the snow.

Love the review - so funny and informative.., for £40 you can't complain. It looks like it makes bread better than my previous panasonic breadmaker, which was three times the price. I now use a two paddle machine.

Remove the bucket from the unit before adding your ingredients. 😅

I've made tons of gluten free bread in bread makers. If you follow the directions it's hard to mess up, and homemade gluten free bread is so much better than most any store bought. Set it up at bedtime, and have fresh still warm bread first thing in the morning.

Your video popped up and I’m watching you have fun with your new toy. Before you make your first bread, the unit is supposed to be cleaned first to burn off the smoke you were getting!

Where breadmachines shine is the kneading, some people use it just for kneading and shape and bake it by hand. My machine is bigger than that one and it only uses 7gr of yeast on a mid size loaf, and you definetly can't put any extra in, it might overflow. Every breadmachine recipe is in grams and need to weighted out, you can transform regular bread recipes for the machine by googling the measurements to weigh ratios for each ingredient, just mind the max amount of flour the machine allows. I mostly make glutein free paleo protein bread but I've made some cakes too.

Wonder when the yeast gets in contact with the salt. Only need to worry about it if you are doing delayed start.

I've had a bread machine for 2 decades. When you have TWO teenagers, BOTH 6' 9" tall and 195 pounds, you NEED this. It'll save you a FORTUNE.

Also, there are 3 options with the hole in the bottom of the bread, you either ignore it (All breadmakers have this except or 1 special type), or you remove the paddle during the 'rising' stage, or you buy a breadmaker that has a collapseable paddle, where once it has finished kneading, it collapses the paddle to the base of the breadpan so that during rising and baking, you don't get any hole at all, at most there would just be a flat indendation where the paddle was sitting on the bottom of the pan.

as someone who uses a bread maker often, I've got a couple tips for you... first, put about 110 degree Fahrenheit water in and add your yeast directly to that. allow the yeast to bloom for about 10 minutes before adding the rest of the ingredients. Second, bread machines do a much better job at making dough than actually cooking the bread, the crust always comes out very dense and crusty. if you're into that, great! what i typically do is use the bread machine to make the dough, then cook it in the oven. you get a much more pleasant crust texture, density, and color. just my 2 cents.

Make popcorn with it. Or calzone

I used to love my breadmaker and I used it regularly for my family of 5. It made awesome pizza dough too. We often used the timer function and woke up to a house smelling of freshly baked bread 💞

I was in Aldi this morning and saw these. Didn't get one as I have no use for it but it reminded me of years ago when my Dad tried making bread for almost a month.....then never again.

This machine is super. Fantastic value for money. Highly recommend

Growing up, we had a Bakery right across the street from us. We would wake up to the fantastic smells of the Breads, pastries and donuts every morning. The best part, y sister was dating (now Married) to the bakers son. But eventually they had to close down because the baker had finally retired and none of his children wanted to take over the bakery. I will always miss that fantastic place.

Your first bread did not raise properly. It should have a round surface, and at 1 kg it should pretty much reach the top of the container. If the bread or cake does not easily come out, the place it head over on the wire mesh and allow it to cool down first. The second one was raising too much, but better that way. Hang on and in the end all will be good. Promise.

Why do you keep freaking out over the hole in the bottom....what do you think happens to the paddle when its baking ?!! It can't eject and disappear !!! It seems that your £40 bread maker is doing about as good a job as our £150 one = I'm a bit miffed about that 🤨🤐

Desert breads: Cinnamon swirl bread, friendship bread, monkey bread, various chocolate breads, pumpkin bread, strawberries & cream bread, blueberry muffin bread, spiced sweet potato bread, hot cross buns, cheesecake banana bread (yes, that's a thing), white chocolate cranberry orange bread, and so on. And that's with 2 minutes of web searching and typing. And now I'm hungry for cinnamon toast.

Yeah, adding the flour outside the machine is deffo the way to go, trust me. I've a Sanyo SBM15 which is the same size, & the way I do it is to use a large plastic measuring cup from the dollar-store to hold the dry ingredients & an old tupperware style sour cream tub for the water, if I need to add an egg yolk to it. Then I like to mix the dry ingredients in the measuring cup with a plastic disposable butterknife I keep for the purpose, after which I add in the yeast & stir that in as well. only takes 1 to sometimes 1 & 1/4 tsp quick yeast is all my for unit, depending on the recipe. Pour the water/water & egg yolk into the pan, pour the dry in after, snap the pan into the machine & set the controls. easy-peasy.

I don't know what it's like in Euroland but in Murica I don't know if I've been to a Goodwill in the last 20 years that didn't have at least 1 bread machine in the appliance section. I finally bought one a couple years ago for 8bucks and it became my favorite appliance. It has a wider and shorter bucket than this one, it does a poorer job at smaller loafs, but for the standard 2lb/1kg loaf it's an absolute banger.

Mans just jams a metal thing down the container, scraping that non-stick coating like some kind of cave dweller. I would recommend against doing that.

I use my breadmaker all the time just to kneading and proof my dough because it's so much easier than watching it. if I bake in it, I always remove the paddle after the last knock down. You don't have be so careful with adding your ingredients just bang them in. Also you need to add everything after you install the pan as the other way can make a bigger mess and more burnt flour. Side note, less wrestling please.

We've been using more-or-less the same machine as yours for 15 years (look for "Breadman TR875"). Cosmetically slightly different variants were sold in the US as Sunbeam, and when we've needed to replace parts (paddle, pan) the equivalent Sunbeam part worked, was easy to find, and very inexpensive.

Love my Panasonic bread maker, use it every week to make 50/50 white and wholemeal loaves. Makes a lovely sundried tomato and parmesan loaf too, you have to try that using just white bread flour. Love it toasted with cream cheese spread over top 😛 So useful for making quick Pizza dough, and easy enriched dough for Chelsea Buns, Belgian Buns and Cinnamon Buns. Would not be without it, the best kitchen gadget I've ever bought. Not sure why your loaves are all sticking to the top of the machine that doesn't ever happen with mine, It seems to use far too much yeast and sugar. I only add a teaspoon of yeast, salt and sugar for a 400g loaf.

In this order: 150ml Milk, 1 Egg, 20gr Butter, 1 tea spoon salt, 310gr Flour, 30gr sugar, 4gr dry yeast (12gr Fresh) Dark crust, french or Sandwich setting, 700gr Never fails!!

Having had bread makers over the last maybe 30 years, this gave me a good chuckle. 😂

I loved my bread machine & would add cinnamon & dried fruit to a half & half mixture of Bread flour & Wholemeal for a fabulous fruit loaf. I think the cake was over cooked? Regarding the cake, was it still on the darkest setting from the bread? Also, the chocolate may well have skewed the sugar balance & compromised the chemical reaction which, when combining with the over cooking & using oil may well have led to it be dense. A very enjoyable episode. 👍🏼

I used to have one. It was amazing because I was young... The bread recipes were horrible, using sugar in most if not all recipes. It was a bread with with teeny crumb. Wouldn't hold up to mayo and tomatoes. Would literally dissolve. It was more yeast cake;). Good with butter though

Bread machines are amazing we were gifted one 4 years ago don't buy Bread any more you can try new recipes Goujujang garlic and onion Bread is amazing try it Barry you'll be hooked yet another place to enjoy Paprika Welcome to the homemade bread side

I would love many kitchen gadgets but I live in a small one bedroom flat. My kitchen is about 6x6ft. I have just the room on my work surface for a microwave/kettle/toaster & mini blender. I don't have a lot of cupboard space either to store many gadgets.

Can you make popcorn in that gadget ?

Sweet Bread is dough for cinnamon rolls. I love my bread machine. And while 2 to 4 hours seems like a lot, remember…is it mixing, kneading and a double raise and then baking with that time.

Can any flour be used with these machines ? if not it could be quite expensive to make your own bread, probably cheaper to buy. (yes I understand about it not having any additives/preservatives but sometimes you just have to ignore that for the sake of saving money !)

I tend to use mine purely on the prepare dough setting because I find it bakes (tastes) nicer in the oven (no hole) Also that's a good option for pizza dough, rolls and randomly bao buns. And...try the supermarket bread mixes, the sour dough one is really good.

Barry... of course there's gonna be a hole, it's made by the paddle, all breadmakers have a paddle to stir the ingredients with I don't know what's so difficult to understand

I have a similar one. these ridiculous instructions are completely pointless for putting in the ingredient. just throw everything in there... It cooks ok to poorly but the kneading alone is worth the value for me.

I amazes me that you cannot figure out when an appliance been heating for a long time it comes out hot. Ever heard of a potholder, just asking. I don't mean to be snarky but you do this all the time.

And because it calls for a dad joke... My sister won't date bakers. Says they're too kneady. 😆

I use mine all the time to make dough for my foccacia. Sometimes I add olives and cheese and vegan pepperoni at the add stage. It never looks like it will mix well but it always does! And the foccacia always comes out light and fluffy and ready for the second proving

Do you plan to do more premiere videos in the future? :3

That last loaf probably over rose because some of the add-ins weren't added. The extra oats would have weighed down the dough and reduced the percentage of gluten maybe?