Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Very easy yo opporate. All recipe books we've used work with this machine. NONE of the loafs have "sunk" and it really does a great job with the mixing times and different bread textures, ie.e a rye is done differently in the machie than white bread, and you get perfect results! Our kitchen is stainless steel and black. 5 - star Update 3/26/10 - After about 5 months of use (2 loafs per week) it stopped working... it powers up, runs the program, but the motor doesn't turn on... it is under warrentee but we've e-mailed and called for 5 days now with NO response. Today, we called AGAIN and after tring some phone aided suggestions we all realize... it's broke. Unforturnalty, they are out of stock on this item and we will recieve a replacment in just over a month... oh well. Seemed like a good deal, and worked great (while working) I guess you get what you pay for... lowered my original 5 - star to a 2 - star, as can't be used, but hopefully a new one is coming. I will update again, hopefully in about a month. Update 6/1/10 - We received a new bread machine about 3 weeks ago. This unit looks identical as the first but; the bread quality is not consistent as it was in the first machine. It doesn't seem to get as hot as it needs to, and the mixing paddles are much stiffer than the original one, so I don't think the dough is getting a good enough workout and a majority of the loaves have sunk in the middle, never an issue on the original machine. Lastly this unit has several slight scratch marks over it in the black plastic and in the stainless steel... refurbished? Who knows... Final thoughts... For the price I guess you could take a chance... Although it looks nice and has some great features it's not consistent. I might suggest saving for a higher quality machine as the bottom line is - if it doesn't work well, you not going to use it... unless you only want to make bread bowls. Staying at 2 stars.