Kenwood BM450

I had great experience using this bread maker. What i liked most is the convention fan to control the temperature. It makes the bread within the 1 hour.

I like this breadmaker as it does multiple tasks. It is portable and has an attractive look with a black finish. It has the feature of automatic ingredients dispenser.

I have used a Panasonic for 10 years with excellent results. When the Panasonic finally wore out, I decided to look around at the various options. Kenwood had some good reviews so I bought one.

I have made six different loaves so far and the results have been awful in terms of size, crust and quality. Almost on the point of ditching it and buying another Panasonic. It is expensive to make a loaf and throw half away because no-one wants to eat it.

Recipe book is glossy with pretty pictures but the results are nothing like the photos.

The keypad is not user friendly and the bleep at the end of the cycle is so quiet you would only hear it if you were next to it.

The internal light is useful and the 'time remaining' display is good but the machine needs to produce a good loaf every time. I have yet to get an edible loaf out of it.

This machine looks good and produces excellent bread of all types and sizes, great. however it is very noisy. I bought this machine 18 months ago and use it every night for a loaf in the morning. lovely getting up to that fresh bread smell. 13 months and the hub and drive coupling shattered. out of warranty of course, dealer didn't want to know neither did Kenwood. managed to find a spare and fix it myself. Now the O ring on the bottom of the breadpan has gone so the water just passes through. course you can't get individual spares (not little bits) so have to buy a new pan. Very Very disappointed with this machine when it comes to reliability. Bought expensive to get the best (so I thought ) and keep having problems. POOR.

I got the Kenwood BM450 as a gift for my birthday last month. Having used a variety of bread making tools over the years, I was so happy with this product, as it gave myself and my family the ability to make a combination of different loaves. I would highly recommend this product to anyone interested in quick and easy home baking.

J.Hill

I purchased this machine in July last year and was impressed. I used it nearly every day.

The non-stick surface of the bread pan wore out fairly quickly around the kneader spindle, due to a burr on the kneader.

I ordered a new bread pan and kneader in November. The kneader was delivered within a few days. I am still waiting for the bread pan and have just been informed that it may be available around the end of March.

I would rate this machine highly but, since it isn't much use without a bread pan, it gets one star for service.

After much research i bought the Kenwood BM 450 in India. The machine is sleek, stylish and relatively easy to operate. However, i feel the company should have done a lot of research so that its suitable for the Indian market. It is difficult to buy and get the flours. such as granary loaf, whole meal flour etc. After a few successful trials and some failed i am now able to produce a lovely loaf at home.

It does brown lesser on the top - i dont know if this is the fault of the machine, or the model?

I've had the Kenwood BM450 bread maker for a couple of months now and it has been excellent. With no previous experience I've produced a series of really nice loaves with very little effort. I started with packet mixes but it is very easy to use with separate ingredients and that has given me nicer (and cheaper) loaves. As seems to be the case with all bread makers the key thing is accurately measuring your ingredients then adding them to the pan in the right order. But this takes no time at all.

The unit looks great and is very, very easy to clean. I've read some negative comments here and elsewhere but they haven't affected me so far.

Some people say it's noisy. Of course it isn't silent. But I live in a small flat where my kitchen and living space are one. I have no issues using this in the evenings while watching TV. Overnight I certainly wouldn't hear it from the bedroom. No idea why people are bothered by the noise level. It is nothing like as noisy as my washing machine and a bought a direct drive washer/dryer just because it scored well for being quiet. Compared with my washing machine the bread maker is very easy on the ears.

Some people have also complained about the paddle getting stuck on the spindle. There's a decent amount of play between paddle and spindle on my machine so perhaps this is something Kenwood has tweaked. Equally I always put a little vegetable oil on the spindle. Bottom line is I've never had an issue with the paddle sticking. If I ever do I'd be confident a bit of a soak would make it easy to remove.

There's a great range of programs including gluten free and even jam making. And the unit is programmable if you want to do something specific that isn't pre-loaded. I can't imagine I'll need to go there though.

There are a lot of reviews out there saying you should only buy a Panasonic if you want a bread maker. Panasonic are obviously good and one of the reasons I wanted a bread maker was having tasted the excellent bread that friends of mine make in their Panasonic. But I found it very easy to match their results with my Kenwood with very little effort. I have a feeling Panasonic is no longer the only game in town and if you want a generously-featured bread maker that looks great and is very easy to use and clean I think the BM450 is an excellent choice.

The machine is very noisy and is impossible to at night. No interest if it cannot work at night in order to have fresh bread in the morning. I tried to contact kenwood to help me find a solution for isolating the machine but (like other times) not even an automatic reply i received. The customer support is also very bad. I'm.very dissapointed with the machine and kenwood in general. I had an old morphy richards before and was by far a supperior machine.

Although difficult to remove the loaf from the paddle, the bread was good. Very noisy while kneading, could not hear the television in next room. The machine stopped kneading completely machine was useless now. Amazon said we were two weeks too late on the one year's guarentee, and Kenwood had no interset, just referred us to a service outlet who wanted £20.00 plus vat to look at it.