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The SD-YD250 does not revolutionize bread makers, but it has significantly better features than most of its competition: - Thick pan: even rising and baking, good crust - Thin, flat blade: the loaf slides out and you don't need to fish the blade in it. - Yeast dispenser: contributes to a very even loaf, and makes timer operation more reliable by preventing early yeast activation - Whisper quiet operation: even while kneading wholewheat loaves this machine's noise level is amazingly low. The loudest noise you'll hear during the whole process is a few clacks from the yeast dispenser. - Recipes give volume (easier) and weight (more accurate) amounts for flour. - Supports slightly larger loaves than most machines (2 1/2 instead of 2 lbs) Having used other machines before I was surprised how effortlessly baked loaves slide out of the pan, probably because of the flat blade and the good quality pan. Also, the crust color is perfectly even from top to bottom, whereas on most other machines I've used the crust is darker at the bottom near the heating element and lighter at the top, another benefit of the thicker, better quality pan. Finally, Panasonic makes spare parts available. This is a well-rounded, high quality machine at a very reasonable price. You will not be disappointed.