Bread Machine

For the past 16 years I have had a Panasonic Bread Machine.  Actually that's not strictly accurate, i've had 2 of them, they aren't designed to last forever.  In that whole time I've found that home made bread costs about half of bought bread.  My second machine died last year, since then I've been using a Sanyo that was given to me by Mum.

It isn't as good as the Panasonic, the bread doesn't have the right texture, but even worse it has a serious design fault.  The bread pan is held in by a couple of bits of bent metal at the top of the machine.  Each time I put the pan in or remove it I have to push or pull it past these bits of metal.  The first time I saw it I could tell this was a mistake, and last week I was proven right.  The bits of metal have gradually weakened and no longer hold the pan in place.  The machine works perfectly if I am prepared to stand there and hold the pan in place, but that kind of defeats the purpose, I might as well make it by hand, but sadly I just don't have the time.  Note the woosy little hooks holding the pan in, also note the dried dough, I had to take the last dough out and cook in manually

It's been costing me $5 a day to keep the family in bread.  That's two loaves of bakery bread.  I just calculated that it costs about $2.5 to make home made bread, so half the cost.  I checked out a new bread machine and it will cost me $179, which works out to be 71.6 day's bread.  So within 3 months the new machine will have paid itself off.  So guess what I'm buying today?  You guessed it, a new Panasonic bread machine.  No more bought bread.  Fresh bread all the way.